The Importance of Criteria in Philosophy

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"I don't think like you say well if he's not even going to lay out criteria for us as to how we should like evaluate the plausibility of these claims," says author. "This is a totally different way of approaching philosophy that is not consistent in the like technical sense but is in the line with his actual philosophy which i think is very committed to an inelimitable subjective nature of trying to make sense of life in the world."

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!