The idea of this self that causes things really does take off with christianity, and is more dominant in the west. So i think there might be something to that. There might be a kind of error theory that you could construct out of this. Yes, there's a got a pucking blanky on the book, but a lot of our listeners have asked us to talk about it.
Socrates was ugly and tired of life, so he made a tyrant of reason. Philosophers are mummies who hate the body and the senses. Reason is a tricky old woman. Morality is a misunderstanding. Kant is a sneaky Christian. And don't even get Nietzsche started on "free will" or the "self" - just excuse for priests to punish people, a hangman's metaphysics. David and Tamler dive into Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols, a fascinating set of aphorisms brimming with passion, provocation, questions without answers.
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