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Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")

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The Immaturity of Free Will Moral Responsibility

I started out as a free will moral responsibility skeptic and there's a quote from part one section or section verse chapter 21 I don't know that a lot of free will skeptics use like Galen Strassen uses this all the time to emphasize the position. The idea of self-causation is the best self-contradiction that has been conceived so far it is a sort of rape and perversion of logic but the extravagant pride of man has managed to entangle itself profoundly and frightfully with just this nonsense. He says supposing someone were to see through the borish simplicity of this celebrated concept of free will and put it out of his head altogether he would beg

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