Untimely Reflections #29: Daniel Tutt - Boxing with Nietzsche
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 philos...
9 Apr 20241h 27min
Untimely Reflections #28: Stephen Hicks - Is Nietzsche a Postmodernist?
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...
2 Apr 20241h
89: Sigmund Freud - Sublimations, Dreams & Repressions
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 ...
26 Mar 20241h 20min
88: René Girard - The Case for the Crucified
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 sca...
19 Mar 20241h 35min
87: Science and Wisdom in Battle
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...
12 Mar 20241h 25min
86: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks pt 2 - Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus
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 philo...
5 Mar 20241h 25min
85: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, pt. 1 - Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus
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 pub...
26 Feb 20241h 26min
Q&A #8
I answered questions from the Patrons. Enjoy!
13 Feb 20241h 35min
