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Beyond Good and Evil #3: One Ruling Thought (I.17 - II.25)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Unfree Will of the Soul Atomism

In actuality what you are is not this separate ego consciousness which is burdened with all these drives and impulses that you then are unable to obey the dictates of your own will because they're overrided by your wayward passions or something of that fashion. In fact we do away with this concept of the unitary indivisible self of the soul atomism and recognize the self as a multiplicity and a social structure. What this multiplicity is made of is drives the this movement right the way Nietzsche described it in his book "Heraclitus's river"

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