Кращі подкасти про Nietzsche (2025)

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106: Emil Cioran - On the Heights of Despair 1:23:37

5d ago1:23:37

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Cioran is notorious as the depressive philosopher par excellence. While figures such as Schopenhauer, Ligotti and Benatar have advanced logical arguments for their pessimistic outlook, Cioran's work is completely missing any such justification for his depressive feeling for life. Instead, his work is a lyrical outpouring of his inner life. In this …

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Love Never Faileth (Redux) 1:01:22

12d ago1:01:22

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This is a revision and re-recording of Episode 04 of the podcast, "Love Never Faileth". I felt that it wasn't my best work in terms of execution, but one of the best episode concepts. As a New Year's special, enjoy this redux of a classic episode. Some parts have been added, some have been removed, and overall I think the lecture flows better and b…

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Anti-Christmas Special 51:31

19d ago51:31

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Is this an anti-Christian screed? Far from it. Today we take a deep dive into one of Nietzsche's core concepts from the Antichrist: the reversal of our understanding of the terms "soul" and "spirit". While many Christians do not even give much thought to the difference between these terms, this was, historically, a key distinction. Nietzsche's grea…

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The Gay Science #9 (II.98-II.107) 1:21:36

2M ago1:21:36

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Finishing book 2 of TGS! This coming Tuesday, a Wandering Above a Sea of Fog episode, then a break for a week. Episode art: Priestess at Delphi by John Collier

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The Gay Science #8 (II.84 - II.97) 1:43:36

2M ago1:43:36

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Continuing with The Gay Science readthrough! More sections on art, the eternal war between prose and poetry, the Apollinian and Dionysian, and more. Episode art: The Human Condition by Rene Magritte.

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Q&A #11 2:25:08

2M ago2:25:08

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Patrons: "Have you ever said Yes to a single joy?" Salts: "Yes"

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The Gay Science #7 (II.76-II.83) 1:45:38

2M ago1:45:38

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"Many lies tell the poets" - Homer. Nietzschean exploration of art, of truth and appearance in the artistic world, the way that madness, art and ritual relate, and the translation of artistic expression into different cultural contexts. Join me for this continuation of our The Gay Science readthrough!…

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All Hallow's Special - Robert Chambers' Repairer of Reputations, featuring Mynaa 1:53:15

2M ago1:53:15

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In this episode, Mynaa and I discuss The Repairer of Reputations, the first story in Robert Chambers' collection, The King in Yellow. Concepts in Chambers work contributed to the creation of the 'weird fiction' genre, and remain influential on media today - including the King in Yellow, the notion of a book that can drive you mad, and names such as…

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105: Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan 1:38:48

2M ago1:38:48

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Samhain is fast approaching, and this week we're going to have two spooky episodes of the podcast. This episode will be a philosophical exploration of the significance of Arthur Machen's weird fiction/horror novella, "The Great God Pan". While I'd originally planned this for the second leg of the season, we're interrupting The Gay Science readthrou…

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The Gay Science #6 (II.57-75) 1:47:11

3M ago1:47:11

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Welcome back to The Gay Science! In this episode we commence with book II, which begins with an exploration of perspectivism and the pitfalls of scientific realism, and quickly moves into ruminations on women and relationships. It's no one's favorite part of Nietzsche, but in this talk we'll clean all of the philosophical meat off of the bone, beca…

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104: Donna Tartt - The Secret History 2:05:18

3M ago2:05:18

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Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History is a loveletter to Greek tragedy, that begins with a dedication from Nietzsche and Plato. Central to the story is the concept of the Dionysian, and the attempt of the main characters to experience the Dionysian. Richard Papen's fatal flaw is his "morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs". His undying qu…

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103: Euripedes - The Bacchae 1:58:19

3M ago1:58:19

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The Bacchae is a parennially popular Greek tragedy that portrays the coming of Dionysus to Greece. The Dionysian strikes Hellas like a wave of madness, and the play is full of miracles, illusions and other violations of the natural order. Often interpreted as a play about the conflict between religious experience and established dogma, or between t…

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102: Michel Foucault - Madness & Civilization 1:29:47

4M ago1:29:47

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Michel Foucault is one of the most influential philosophical thinkers of the 20th century. He remains a controversial figure, but undoubtedly he had a profound impact on the way we think about mental health and mental illness up to the present day. In this episode, we take a deep dive into his work, Madness & Civilization: A History of Insanity in …

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101: Aeschylus - The Oresteia 1:51:55

4M ago1:51:55

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Aeschylus' Oresteia is the only extant trilogy of Greek drama. Alongside the Parthenon, the Oresteia is considered one of the two greatest 'monuments' to the Golden Age of Athens. In this trilogy - The Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides - Aeschylus dramatizes a rite of passage from savagery to civilization. Over the course of the na…

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100: Peter Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle 1:29:43

4M ago1:29:43

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Welcome to the ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE of The Nietzsche Podcast. Today we're examining the speech of Peter Sloterdijk, given on the centennial of Nietzsche's death, and transcribed into the essay entitled, "Nietzsche Apostle". Sloterdijk puts forward the theory that languages are fundamentally an instrument of 'group narcissism' by which the group re…

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99: Carl Jung - The Undiscovered Self 1:45:58

4M ago1:45:58

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In 1956, Jung wrote the essay entitled, "Past and Future" in German, but we know it in English as "The Undiscovered Self". Having witnessed the horror of the world wars, and the ongoing apocalyptic danger of the Cold War, Jung attempted to explain why it was that societies sometimes went mad. This is how Europe experienced the outbreak of The Great…

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98: Yukio Mishima - Sun & Steel 1:24:18

5M ago1:24:18

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Yukio Mishima (born Kimitake Hiraoka, 1925-1970) wrote dozens of stories, including famous works such as Confessions of a Mask, and Patriotism. He was considered for a Nobel Prize in literature about half a dozen times, through he never won it. His works were adapted into films, which received international acclaim. He wrote modern No plays which w…

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97: Sophocles - Oedipus Rex & Oedipus at Colonus 1:34:20

5M ago1:34:20

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Welcome to season five of The Nietzsche Podcast! First of all, a warm thank you to all of my listeners and patrons who have helped to make this show such a phenomenal success. For our first episode in this new collection of episodes, we're diving headfirst into the Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus Rex & Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles triumphed wi…

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The Gay Science #5 (I.45 - I.56) 1:52:01

5M ago1:52:01

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Concluding with our readthrough of book I of The Gay Science! We'll return with book II in a short while. In the meantime, we're going back to regular episodes of the podcast in the immediate future, covering a variety of topics. Cheers!

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The Gay Science #4 (I.30 -I.44) 1:45:24

6M ago1:45:24

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Join me for the next installment of our readthrough of The Gay Science. Here, we cover a number of aphorisms concerning: fame and its effect on friendship; the dying words of Roman emperors; the hidden significance of all historical events; the desacrelizing effects of market forces upon society; and the value in knowing the supposed motives of hum…

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The Gay Science #3 (I.21 - I.29) 1:40:11

6M ago1:40:11

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In this episode, we discuss the way in which selfishness is the root of all selfless morality, how corruption produces greatness, why the ascetic is driven by ambition, and the age old question, "What is Life?"

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The Gay Science #2 (I.10 - I.20) 1:47:59

6M ago1:47:59

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Join me this week, for a discussion of significant aphorisms from The Gay Science, including Consciousness, Evil, and The Feeling of Power.

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The Gay Science #1 (Preface, I.1 - I.9) 1:58:42

6M ago1:58:42

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We begin our walkthrough + analysis of The Gay Science today, starting with some brief remarks on the background context of the work, a loose examination of the preface, and an intense exegesis of the first nine aphorisms. Excited to dive into this one with all of you1

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Q&A #10 2:12:49

6M ago2:12:49

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Answering questions from Patrons for our tenth Q&A episode! Thank you everyone, first episode analyzing The Gay Science next week.

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Gli Scimmioni 411: Libri insoliti parte II 22:00

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Uno scatolone di libri incautamente acquistato in un momento di debolezza oggi ci fa parlare di Umberto Eco, Jocelyn Haley, Ernest Hemingway, Giuseppe Ungaretti, George Steiner. E alla fine tra monaci medievali, ninfe dagli occhi verdi, alcolizzati, poeti ermetici e critici letterari comprendiamo come ogni atto comunicativo comporti sempre l’atto d…

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Wandering Above A Sea of Fog #3 1:07:01

7M ago1:07:01

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Updates on my life, the new direction for the podcast, revealing the next book that we’re analyzing, and general thoughts on the spirit of the show, what binds the community together, and self celebration about the release of my book.

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96: Nietzsche as Educator 1:06:54

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A summary of Nietzsche's teachings, examined by considering the parallel of Schopenhauer's influence on Nietzsche with how the modern person could adopt Nietzsche as a similar type of influence. I attempt to distill the central message of Nietzsche's philosophy, and explain how this interpretative framework helps elucidate new angles to many of his…

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95: The Journey to Hades 1:59:54

7M ago1:59:54

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In the aphorism, "Journey to Hades" in Human All Too Human Vol 2, Nietzsche lists eight thinkers who helped to shape his thought. Each of these eight is paired with another thinker, a choice which is intentional and intended to reveal something about each pair. These eight are: Epicurus and Montaigne; Goethe and Spinoza; Plato and Rousseau; Pascal …

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94: Nietzsche Reviews His Own Books 1:19:05

8M ago1:19:05

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The second part of a two-parter we began near the beginning of this season. The completion of our analysis of Ecce Homo. In this episode, we consider Nietzsche's reviews of his own books, and argue that it presents a creative narrative of Nietzsche's life: Nietzsche as a tragic figure. Nietzsche mythologizes himself and the circumstances of his gre…

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Gli Scimmioni 410: Libri insoliti 21:30

8M ago21:30

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Da uno scatolone di libri vintage acquistati in un momento di debolezza in una legatoria, escono fuori oggi: saghe familiari di drammatica intensità (John Steinbeck), un giallo divertente e cinico quanto basta (Willliam Somerset Maugham), romanzi rosa per casalinghe non troppo disperate (Constance Heaven), piccoli drammi morali quotidiani (Bonavent…

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93: The Idle Hours of a Psychologist 1:26:10

8M ago1:26:10

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The Twilight of Idols is described by Nietzsche as a work of leisure: a leap sideways, a bit of sunshine, a form of play rather than work. The laboriousness of 'notebook psychology', in which one strains and squints and spies on reality, could not be further from this natural discernment based on what one is given. In this episode, we explore exact…

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92: The Four Great Errors 1:22:08

8M ago1:22:08

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A deep dive into one of the most important passages in Twilight of Idols. We’ll explore Nietzsche’s critique of our erroneous habits of thought: mistaking the effect for the cause, false causality, creating imaginary causes, creating a doer of the deed, and free will. We explore Nietzsche’s explanation for how these errors take hold of our thought,…

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Q&A #9 1:41:26

8M ago1:41:26

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The ninth time that I’ve done this.

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Untimely Reflections #31: Quinn Williams - On Deleuze, and Methods of Interpretation 1:33:30

8M ago1:33:30

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My friend Quinn and I discuss whether Deleuze is an accurate interpreter of Nietzsche. What are the faults of Deleuze's interpretation, and what are its merits? We discuss the eternal return, the anti-Hegelian attitude of Deleuze, ressentiment and bad conscience, and the Deleuzian understanding of will to power. More broadly, we discuss what it is …

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91: Carl Jung - Nietzsche on the Couch 1:22:28

9M ago1:22:28

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Carl Jung contributed to psychoanalysis in an important way, but that contribution to the field is inseparable from his engagement with Nietzsche. Jung derived a wealth of insights from Nietzsche’s work, and his psychological state that deteriorated into madness. Jung’s central hypothesis is that Nietzsche was possessed by an archetype. Such archet…

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Gli Scimmioni 409: La pace è l’unica strada 20:49

9M ago20:49

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Oggi si parte dal titolo dell’ultimo libro di David Grossman (“La pace è l’unica strada”) per parlare di pace. Più facile a dirsi che a farsi. Il motto latino “pax optima rerum” (“ottima fra tutte le cose la pace”) ci trova tutti d’accordo. Ma come raggiungere la pace (interiore, nelle relazioni, tra nazioni)? David Grossmam, un dizionarietto della…

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90: Carl Jung - Archetypes & The Collective Unconscious 1:26:40

9M ago1:26:40

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Carl Gustave Jung was a student of Freud, but broke from his mentor in a dramatic way. Jung acquired the reputation of being a mystic, and put forward ideas that pushed the boundaries of psychoanalysis. This is a crash course in Jung’s most important ideas: projection, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. In this episode, we go in-depth on t…

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Untimely Reflections #30: Weltgeist - Aesthetics of Schopenhauer & Nietzsche 1:43:18

9M ago1:43:18

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Weltgeist x The Nietzsche Podcast. A long-awaited conversation. We discuss: the aesthetics of Schopenhauer v/s Nietzsche, the Schopenhauerian influence on Wagner's music, The Pale Blue Dot, the Eros as discussed in Plato's Symposium, philosophy and art as luxuries of civilization, and what Nietzsche describes as the asceticism of the scientific wor…

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Untimely Reflections #29: Daniel Tutt - Boxing with Nietzsche 1:27:20

9M ago1:27:20

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Daniel Tutt is the author of How to Read Like a Parasite, a new book which warns leftist thinkers about the power and danger of Nietzsche. Daniel has a long history of engaging with Nietzsche’s philosophy, and argues for a pugilistic relationship with him. In his view, the French leftists who utilized Nietzsche’s work sometimes centered Nietzsche t…

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Untimely Reflections #28: Stephen Hicks - Is Nietzsche a Postmodernist? 1:00:11

9M ago1:00:11

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Stephen Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher, and the author of numerous books, including Understanding Postmodernism, and Nietzsche & the Nazis. As Professor Hicks is a critic of postmodernism, I decided to ask him about Nietzsche's connection to postmodern thought. Is Nietzsche a postmodernist, and to what extent did he influence them? How do…

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89: Sigmund Freud - Sublimations, Dreams & Repressions 1:20:52

10M ago1:20:52

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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) said of Nietzsche that he had "more penetrating knowledge of himself than any man who ever lived or was likely to live." In spite of this, Freud always denied that Nietzsche was an influence on his thought, in spite of his multiple references to Nietzsche in his early work. While Freud certainly drew from Nietzsche's ideas…

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88: René Girard - The Case for the Crucified 1:35:19

10M ago1:35:19

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Among Nietzsche's critics, René Girard is perhaps unique. Girard's understanding of human civilization and the origins of human culture is that it is based on ritual, collective violence against a scapegoated individual - and he argues that Nietzsche is one of the only thinkers hitherto who understood this. Nietzsche's famous formula - Dionysus ver…

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87: Science and Wisdom in Battle 1:25:21

10M ago1:25:21

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Today we examine an 1875 Fragment, entitled "Science and Wisdom in Battle". Not only does this fragment contain one of my favorite quotations of Nietzsche's, it represents his continual grappling with the meaning of Ancient Greek culture. In particular, we discuss the importance of "relations of tension" in Nietzsche's earlier work: art versus scie…

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86: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks pt 2 - Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus 1:25:40

10M ago1:25:40

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In this episode, we continue our discussion of the Pre-Platonics, and cover the ideas of Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and Democritus. The episode begins with a brief recap of the previous philosophers and the dialogue up to this point. After considering the remaining Pre-Platonics, I have some brief concluding remarks in which I attempt to m…

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Gli Scimmioni 408: Dove si balla: terremoti e vulcani 19:51

11M ago19:51

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Con i tormentoni, recenti e passati, di Sanremo ancora in testa oggi partiamo da una canzone di Dargen D’Amico (“Dove si balla”) per parlare dei terremoti e dei vulcani (anche metaforici) che fanno capolino in libri, saggi e poesie. Si parte con Paolo Rumiz e si conclude con Achille Campanile passando per Heinrich von Kieist, Tiffany Watt Smith, Va…

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85: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, pt. 1 - Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus 1:26:25

11M ago1:26:25

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Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as Nietzsche’s more popular writings. You will not find his major concept…

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Q&A #8 1:35:51

11M ago1:35:51

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I answered questions from the Patrons. Enjoy!

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84: Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe 1:40:58

11M ago1:40:58

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Nietzsche said of this work that it was “the best German book”. For the last nine years of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s life, Johann Peter Eckermann journaled about their conversations together. Goethe was a celebrity at the time, and destined to be remembered as perhaps the greatest writer of the German language, certainly of the 19th century. Eck…

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83: Baruch Spinoza’s Geometric Faith 1:46:42

12M ago1:46:42

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In the tradition of the great theistic philosophers, Baruch Spinoza presents us with a metaphysical vision of the cosmos, as ordered by God. But in sharp contrast with thinkers such as Pascal, Spinoza's arguments for God are crafted with an attempt of logical precision. In fact, Spinoza structures his arguments as geometric proofs, and considers th…

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Gli Scimmioni 407: Dov’è più la virtù? 21:39

12M ago21:39

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Dove sono finite le virtù? E quante sono? Con l’episodio di oggi andiamo a cercarle col lanternino in un’operetta, in un dramma liturgico del XII secolo, in un piccolo trattato di grandi virtù di un filosofo francese, nella sceneggiatura di alcuni film e in un paio di poesie. Carlo Lombardo, Ildegarda di Bingen, André Compte-Sponville, Krzysztof Ki…

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