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Nietzsche suggested that we view Kant’s work not so much as an a priori generality, but as the product of his particular journey through life. Still useful and beautiful and necessary for him and perhaps for us as well, once we have understood the process that we are calling “us”….

Both Freud and Skinner followed Nietzsche along this path, encouraging the rest of us to see our words as part and parcel of our experiences. The difference between them, as I experience it, is that Freud also followed Nietzsche into an inverted Platonism and Skinner did not.