The Art of Nuance

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i think we both like some of that dostoevsky and fran for sure insight into the way humans deceive themselves yes absolutely yeah all right join us next time on very dead wisdom and with no more brains than you have anybody can have a brain you're a very bad man and a very good man just a very bad wizard. i know i have so much highlighted that we didn't get to yeah no i mean i think that just means we should come back grab back route though section 31 where he talks about his in our youthful years we still venerate and despise without the art of nuance which is the best gain of life we have rightly to do hard penance for having

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!