The Stoics and the Morality of Philosophy

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Kant tried to take down notions of causality by attacking the stoics. He said that every great philosophy so far has been a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir also that the moral or immoral intentions in every philosophy constituted the real germ of life from which the whole plant has grown. John Hight: We project our what we want onto the like quote-unquote objective world uh or nature and the stoics being the best example of them like they imagine nature as this rational and moral operation because that's just stoicism you knowSo it's very high john hight like post-hoc kind of philosophizing yeah okay.

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!