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29: Too Good For This World (I: The Saint)
Season 2 Episode 8
Back in season one, we teased the idea of Nietzsche looking for some way to elevate mankind beyond the natural world. While Nietzsche is celebrated f…
3 years, 11 months ago
Untimely Reflections #13: Andrei Georgescu - Stomaching Complexity
Season 2 Episode 7
Andrei Georgescu is a writer, a poet, an artist, and an insightful mind. He has grappled with the complexities of the human physiology for years, out…
4 years ago
28: Plato's Symposium, part 2: The Loveable Socrates
Season 2 Episode 6
The ugliest man of Athens? Or the most beautiful soul of all? A mere intellectual? Or the finest fencing-master? The central focus of our episode tod…
4 years ago
27: Plato's Symposium, part 1: The Power of Love
Season 2 Episode 4
You don't need money, don't take fame Don't need no credit card to ride this train It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes But it might …
4 years ago
Untimely Reflections #12: Karl Nord - The Blessed Providence of Our Clownfather
Season 2 Episode 4
Was Nietzsche influenced by the Lutheran idea of pietism? Is there a clear parallel between the ideas of Ecclesiastes and the idea of Nietzsche? Did …
4 years ago
26: Eternal Return, part 2: Bite! Bite!
Season 2 Episode 3
In part two, we look at eternal return in its full implications - the eternity of all that is low and contemptible in human beings, contrasted with t…
4 years ago
Untimely Reflections #11: Kevin Rogers - Zen is Philosophy, Zen is not Philosophy
Season 2 Episode 2
Kevin Rogers is a musician, one of my old friends from the Zen forum & one of the co-hosts of the Knot Zen Podcast. In this episode, we talk about…
4 years ago
25: Eternal Return, part 1: The Toughest Challenge
Season 2 Episode 1
Welcome to Season Two, my beautiful, free spirits! We ended the last season on a "cliffhanger"... the lead-up to the new mythology forged within the …
4 years, 1 month ago
Q&A Episode #2
Season 1 Episode 36
Season two is coming soon! This is the last episode in the interim - or what we might call the afterbirth of season one (if we wanted to be a little …
4 years, 1 month ago
Untimely Reflections #10: Gabriel Martínez - Antinatalism & Pessimism
Season 1 Episode 35
By popular demand, I’ve finally had a conversation with an antinatalist. Gabriel and I discussed the arguments for antinatalism, the pessimistic asse…
4 years, 1 month ago