The Importance of Skepticism in Science

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Skepticism is usually accompanied by a sort of a humbling attitude like a toward the world and he definitely doesn't no he doesn't. He just was trying to present a forceful interpretation, i think for me not something that's even desirableYeah so because he's so emphatic uh in his claims um you might think well why would you be that emphatic if you didn't think what you were saying was true capital t true but i really don't think that that's what he's doing he thinks even what i'm doing is also an interpretation.

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!