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A Must Have Book For Every Philosophy Student
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Rule utilitarianism

The utilitarian view that right actions are those that, if everyone performed them, would produce good consequences. https://youtube.com/shorts/vY2emUrhsEY?feature=share
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Rights

Entitlements, natural or conventional, to do or have something without either interference or compulsion from an external source. https://youtube.com/shorts/YziZSYqaKS8?feature=share
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Rhetoric

The study and practice of verbal persuasion. https://youtube.com/shorts/r3l0m08woLk?feature=share
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Ren

Confucian virtues, such as benevolence, sympathy, and respect for others. https://youtube.com/shorts/6hloZB1o5Ks?feature=share
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Reliabilism

Epistemological theory that knowledge must be acquired via a reliable mechanism, such as a counter factually sensitive causal connection to the fact in question. It is not, however,necessary for the…
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Relativism

The view that reality, knowledge, truth, or morality is relative to an individual, culture, or historical period. https://youtube.com/shorts/-tOIcWvqz8A?feature=share
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Relations of ideas

David Hume’s (1711-1776) term for those beliefs formed entirely by the mind, as in beliefs demonstrable exclusively by rational processes, such as deduction. https://youtube.com/shorts/-7ne9q-zODE?feature=share
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Reflexive property

The expression of a self-identity—that is, that a thing is identical to itself. (See also Identityof indiscernibles.) https://youtube.com/shorts/sZ8unf_mZgA?feature=share
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