Atom: I think that we're both reading our desires into his, his a but i think that at least you're right about that might make sense of his mockery of democritus. One thing for sure is that hes is not at all doing metaphysics. He wants to talk about reality and he wants talk about life. But he's just flirting with some form of realism, a very limited one, that's not what he really believes here.
Socrates was ugly and tired of life, so he made a tyrant of reason. Philosophers are mummies who hate the body and the senses. Reason is a tricky old woman. Morality is a misunderstanding. Kant is a sneaky Christian. And don't even get Nietzsche started on "free will" or the "self" - just excuse for priests to punish people, a hangman's metaphysics. David and Tamler dive into Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols, a fascinating set of aphorisms brimming with passion, provocation, questions without answers.
Plus, a professor is sanctioned for sex talk with his students - fair or coddling foul?
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