The Nichian Attack on the Smug Complacent

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Nicha's work has this flair for the dramatic i think one of the things that i like about and this time around seems especially relevant to me is the nichian attack on a kind of smug complacent view. He says every philosophy is an expression of some sort of personal yearning uh and maybe this is what he he wants you know this is his way of projecting onto the world his own even insecurities he would be fine with somebody at least trying to make sense of that interpretation of him, Nijo writes.

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!