"i think he's much later than those romantics. He's 60 or 70 years later, but i think it's in reaction to to a different kind of, like, mechanized, overly systematic view of the world," she says. "In simply not denying it, sort of accepting that you are what you are, you know, he thinks that this is liberating."
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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