VIDEO CONTEST: Mesh Schoolcraft with Szasz

[cross-posted to FreeKeene.com from PeteEyre.com/Schoolcraft]


Incentive: 100-FRNs or its equivalent in silver
Deadline
: Midnight EST March 31st, 2012. Send an email to “copblock [at] gmail [dot] org” with “Szasz” in the subject line and a link to your video
Details
: All submitted videos will be added to a playlist on CopBlock’s YouTube channel (link will be updated when created). In early April a poll on CopBlock.org will be up for a week, asking visitors to vote for their favorite. The individual who made the video with the most votes on Midnight EST April 7th, 2012 will be receive their choice of 100FRNs or its equivalent in silver

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Philosophical Foundations: First Principles

Have a few minutes? Pretty sure of your views? Challenge yourself!

Here’s a taste of what you’re in for, compliments of Justin Longo: “To evaluate policies, you must have a framework or lens you use to determine what is good and bad policy. This is entirely foreign to most people.”

I’m a big advocate of thinking critically, of striking-the-root, and of consistency in views. Justin does a superb job making his case while doing all three.


I want to give you the tools to build a foundation that will guide you to a consistent philosophy. I don’t necessarily want you to agree with everything I’m about to say, but rather, to use the guidelines of establishing first principles to form your ideals. I believe it is extremely important to constantly “check your premises.” First principles are those premises.

“First principle” defined: foundational principle. Cannot be deduced from any other proposition – in other words, an irreducible principle. Sometimes called “axioms.” First principles have no assumptions built into them.

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