The Consequences of Willingness

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There's so much that we even have in disguise. We identify often with the most successful yeah and like we don't know what causes all of our actions well that seems to me true not that necessarily the Freudian more specific version of that but this idea that there are all these kind of competing drives that we often identify with is very Freudian. The governing class identifies itself with the success of the common wealth in all willing it is absolutely a question of commanding and obeying on the basis as already said of a social structure composed of many quote unquote souls. On which account a philosopher should claim the right to include willing as such within the sphere of morals love love, he says.

David and Tamler dive into the first two parts of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil which contain some of Nietzsche’s best drive-bys on philosophers like Plato, Descartes, the Stoics, Kant, and Hegel along with beliefs in free will, hard determinism, Christianity, morality, conceptual analysis, objectivity, and the value of truth. We argue about Nietzsche’s metaphilosophy and the implications of thinking that all philosophy amounts to a personal confession by the author. Plus – have David’s prayers been answered? Does quantum theory entail that our consciousness outlives the death of our physical bodies? A blog post about a somewhat recent book says yes!