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Herr William
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Greetings all. My name is William. I am 22 and from Missisasippi.
My first experience with philosophy was when I was fifteen and bought a collection of Nietzche's philosophy. I absolutely loved it. In Nietzche I saw not nihilism (likely because I was more nihilistic at that point than Nietzche ever was) but a deeply positive (although quite bitter) call to triumph over the weakness of the human condition.
As I aged and studied more philosophy I found that I was more in the line of Leibniz and Spinoza. I am currently reading Leibniz's Monodology. In fact, I would call myself a monist as I reject dualism out of hand. It seems to me that there is a larger leap in logic to seperate the mind and body than to say that the body is nothing but a physical mode of the mind.
My preferred branches of philosophy would be: metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, and phenomenology.
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Harbal
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Herr William wrote: I would call myself a monist as I reject dualism out of hand.
Strictly speaking, dualism should be rejected out of both hands.
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Harbal wrote:
Herr William wrote: I would call myself a monist as I reject dualism out of hand.
Strictly speaking, dualism should be rejected out of both hands.
Nah. One will do the trick.
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