The Skepticism of a Philosopher

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"It's such a clear presentation of a healthy skepticism combined with such a fierce belief in what he's saying it just trips me up the question is whether there's something contradictory about that or not even contradictory but maybe unhelpful," says author. "I'm holding like a an unreasonable standard like why can't he just simply claim these things um and they either stand or they don't stand on whatever grounds?" asks another student who has written for The New York Review of Books, published by Simon & Schuster.

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!