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So as you probably know by now, philosophy, or more specifically,
the more abstracts out there ideas in philosophy can be a pretty tough thing to just cannonball into and fully understand them right off the bat.
I think most educators realize this and a useful tool that I think a lot of them use to sort of set up a skeleton of an idea that they can flesh out later with more of the details is they try to take big ideas or even entire branches of philosophy and distill them down into a single sentence or a single question.
For example, epistemology.
Notoriously referred to as the branch of philosophy that asks, how do we know what we know?
Now, that's great as a working definition of epistemology.
If you need some frame of reference as you're learning about it, but the more you do learn about it,
the more you realize that that's really only a fraction of what epistemology actually deals with.
Another one, metaphysics, right?
Notoriously referred to as the branch of philosophy that asks, what is everything made out of and how did it get here?
Again, great definition for educational purposes, but the more you look into it,
the more you realize all the metaphysics that that definition is leaving out.
Now, the guy we're going to be talking about today, Albert Kemu,
he thought that he had found the most fundamental question in all of philosophy.
A question that he thought, no matter what other philosophical question you could ever come up with,
it was ultimately going to be a follow-up question to this question.