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89: Sigmund Freud - Sublimations, Dreams & Repressions
Season 4 Episode 22
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…
2 years, 2 months ago
88: René Girard - The Case for the Crucified
Season 4 Episode 21
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…
2 years, 2 months ago
87: Science and Wisdom in Battle
Season 4 Episode 22
Today we examine an 1875 Fragment, entitled "Science and Wisdom in Battle". Not only does this fragment contain one of my favorite quotations of Niet…
2 years, 2 months ago
86: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks pt 2 - Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus
Season 4 Episode 21
In this episode, we continue our discussion of the Pre-Platonics, and cover the ideas of Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and Democritus. The epis…
2 years, 2 months ago
85: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, pt. 1 - Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus
Season 4 Episode 20
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…
2 years, 3 months ago
Q&A #8
Season 4 Episode 19
I answered questions from the Patrons. Enjoy!
2 years, 3 months ago
84: Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe
Season 4 Episode 18
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 …
2 years, 3 months ago
83: Baruch Spinoza’s Geometric Faith
Season 4 Episode 17
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 s…
2 years, 4 months ago
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Season 4 Episode 16
Important announcement.
2 years, 4 months ago
82: Blaise Pascal’s Faithful Calculations
Season 4 Episode 15
Pascal and Nietzsche are two names of monumental importance in the Western philosophical tradition, but rarely are their names mentioned together. At…
2 years, 4 months ago