Beyond Good and Evil #4: The Esoteric (II.26 - II.37)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Nietzsche's Argument for Free Will
Our belief in the power of our will to cause things in the world is the reason for our belief in causality itself. And it's one of the most immediate intuitive prejudices or assumptions that we make. So, you know, this idea of you have this thing called the will, which is separate from matter, the material world, how does it interact with matter or make your nerves, make your muscles move in a certain way? In some sense, Nietzsche is saying in some sense, in order to collapse this distinction between the real and apparent world. But given what would we say, in terms of strict epistemological concerns, I think this is compelling in many ways.
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