Nietzsche's Relationship to Women

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Nietzsche was either a virgin or he died of syphilis from visiting too many prostitutes. Either way, it doesn't bode well for him using them as a metaphor for truth. There is an interesting line that I came across in part three where he says about a woman: But she does not want truth. What is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to women than truth. That's why we love them. Her art is the lie in giving me syphilis, I guess. It's not bitter at all.

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!