The Metaphysical Question of Reason

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"I fundamentally believe that aesthetic claims and empirical claims are not the same thing like maybe that's the difference look i have an idea let me know what you think of this," he says. "We ought really to free ourselves from the seduction of words something we have not done for sure in philosophy but then what he says here i think it could be a good case for your view right?" He continues by saying there are still harmless self-observers who believe there are immediate certainties for example, shopan hour or knowledge as though knowledge got of hold of its object purely and nakedly without any falsification on the part of either the subject or the object.

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!