Beyond Good and Evil #3: One Ruling Thought (I.17 - II.25)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Nietzsche on the Free Will Debate
We have that intuition when we feel ourselves obstructed or oppressed or blocked from our aims then we do feel unfree in a very real and physical sense. In so far as we are actually pursuing what it is that we want even though we didn't choose what we wanted we still feel quote unquote free. As much as it's a mistake to say well I pulled myself up by my bootstraps I am choosing to be what I am right because I have some sort of choice over my own nature the way Chopinhauer perhaps thought of it is just as silly as saying well I'm in chained by my passions.
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