The Blind Spot of Nicha's Interpretation

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i think that's a an ultra charitable interpretation of what nicha's doing because imagine writing uh you know 30 pages of polemics against people who have interpreted 2001 before and saying how wrong they are. i think he finds a lot of charm in it's just like he doesn't think that what he is saying is true in this transcendental way but he gets that that is his own perspective as well which is all that anybody can do.

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!