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• Is the world eternal? YES
• Do humans have contra-causal free will (i.e., can humans do otherwise)? NO
• Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? YES
• Do humans have souls? YES
• Are there natural rights? YES
• Is it morally permissible to eat meat? NO
• Is the unexamined life worth living? NO
• Is truth subjectivity? YES
• Is virtue necessary for happiness? YES
• Can a computer have a mind? YES
• Can humans know reality as it is in itself? YES
• Is hell other people? YES
• Can art be created accidentally? NO
• Can we change the past? NO
• Are numbers real? NO
• Is it always better to know the truth? YES
Is the syphilis diagnosis a common misconception? The forward on my copy of “Thus Spake Zarathustra” talks about the irony of an STD killing a virgin.
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Yes, all too common. It’s sort of a hobby horse of mine, since I’ve recently written an article on it. You can find it here:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1197382
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So, Charlie, it is probably not true that in one of his final gestures before total insanity Nietzsche embraced a horse being flogged in the street? I’m sad to hear this, as Kundera’s treatment of it in ‘Unbearable Lightness of Being’ is quite touching.
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