The Underground Man

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I had read some Nietzsche before in college but never had really gone back to it and I really wanted to see if you got this feeling he is like the original edgelord as you described the drive by style of critique. especially when he talks about your weak morality that cares about other people's suffering which ignores the fact that life is made of suffering. The internet truly if you were alive today kind of you know that's but the very best uh the online world would be a great place to start an argument for or against any view on anything. how did you respond to the underground I had the exact same thought about the underground man yeah my my feelings as you might imagine are are complicated because

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!