The Immaturity of Free Will Moral Responsibility

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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

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!