Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
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!
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.3 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.1 | Sure we all feel alive now, but how do we know it's not all, you know, just an illusion? |
| 0:30.0 | We know our attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:38.4 | Who are you? |
| 0:40.4 | Who are you? |
| 0:42.1 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:45.1 | Good man. |
| 0:49.6 | Blasting deep thoughts, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:53.6 | We know our attention to that man. |
| 0:56.6 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:03.5 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:07.8 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:10.6 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:11.9 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:14.8 | Dave, supposing truth is a woman. |
| 1:17.9 | What then? |
| 1:21.6 | It comes and it goes. |
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