The Anti-Fragile Idea of the Free Spirit

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The famous cliche about Nietzsche whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger yeah exactly. In all the countries of europe and in america too there is something now that abuses this name the free spirit a very narrow imprisoned chain to kind of spirit clumsy good fellows whom one should not deny either courage or respectable decency and suffering itself they take for something that must be abolished. The opposite men understand that hardness forcefulness slavery danger in the alley and the heart uh hiding in life stoicism the art of experiment and devilry of every kind, 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!