Neither Free Will nor not Free Will: Reading Beyond Good and Evil 6

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I should have probably done this you know at the beginning but so welcome to part wherever we are. Uh chapter 15 I believe chapter 16. Here we go. But I did want to mention that my my motivation here is as I mentioned when I launched my Patreon channel and generally what I've been trying to do is if if if I if I had to go to college today given my background and whatnot I almost certainly wouldn't have been able to go to college if I were graduating high school today.

It probably I I just I wouldn't be able to wouldn't be able to afford to. I didn't have the resource, didn't have the background, didn't have the kinds of family support you would need to make any of that possible. And I know a lot of people are interested in this for various reasons, didn't have the opportunity to go to college or just chose not to or studied a different field, came to it late in life. However that works for people.

What I what I'm trying to do really is make available aspects of the education that I was fortunate enough to receive just because I was born in a particular time in a particular place when when college was subsidized and you could you could afford to go sort of vaguely as a as an aimless and uh poor poor student. Um and and part of that is not all of this of course I can't reproduce everything but part of that is a slow close reading. One of the things I really learned to do in college was to slow down and look very closely at works. And then we would come to class and we discuss them and ask questions.

And when you had passages you didn't understand, you could go through them. And so, you know, you'd have uh 16week classes or 15week classes in which we read, you know, three books and the seminar style. And ...