30: Chemistry of Feelings (II: The Artist)
Who is the artist? Where does art come from? What is the future of art? Doing a comprehensive view of Nietzsche’s take on artists is probably too big a topic for any one episode, so here we will conce...
15 Mar 20221h 19min
29: Too Good For This World (I: The Saint)
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 for his uncompromising critique of Christian values ...
8 Mar 20221h 14min
Untimely Reflections #13: Andrei Georgescu - Stomaching Complexity
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 of necessity if for no other reason, and it was be...
1 Mar 20221h 44min
28: Plato's Symposium, part 2: The Loveable Socrates
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 today, in part two of our analysis of Plato's Symposiu...
22 Feb 20221h 23min
27: Plato's Symposium, part 1: The Power of Love
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 just save your life That's the power of love Today,...
14 Feb 20221h 28min
Untimely Reflections #12: Karl Nord - The Blessed Providence of Our Clownfather
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 Nietzsche intend a degree of comedy to his work? Ar...
11 Feb 20221h 46min
26: Eternal Return, part 2: Bite! Bite!
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 the eternity of all that is great and has great pote...
8 Feb 20221h 29min
Untimely Reflections #11: Kevin Rogers - Zen is Philosophy, Zen is not Philosophy
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 Zen found in the corpus of literature produced d...
4 Feb 20221h 37min
