The Gay Science #19 (IV.311-327)
More aphorisms concerning drives, the way that impulses appropriate thought for their own ends, "moral pluralism", means of finding happiness, pleasure and pain as means rather than ends, and experime...
16 Sep 20252h 14min
The Gay Science #18 (IV.299-310)
Continuing with our readthrough of The Gay Science, book number IV.
9 Sep 20252h 11min
The Gay Science #17 (IV.289-298)
Embark, philosophers! Nietzsche hopes for the discovery of many new suns - many new suns - by the philosophical explorers of future ages. For what is needful is that man may learn to be satisfied with...
3 Sep 20252h 8min
Untimely Reflections #37: PF Jung - Enlightened Centrism
PF Jung's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PFJungIf politics is in some sense determined by our psychological temperament, then from an evolutionary standpoint, perhaps there is social value to both ...
26 Aug 20251h 27min
The Gay Science #16 (IV.276-288)
Continuing with The Gay Science, and beginning with book IV, "Sanctus Januarius". Here, we encounter some of the most famous aphorisms: For the New Year, Preparatory Men ("Live Dangerously!") and Exce...
19 Aug 20251h 56min
120: Erich Heller, The Disinherited Mind, pt 2 - Burckhardt, Nietzsche & History
The conclusion of our two-parter on Erich Heller, and the conclusion to season five! We discuss Nietzsche's friendship with Jacob Burckhardt, and how Burckhardt's view of history can inform our unders...
12 Aug 20251h 44min
119: Erich Heller, The Disinherited Mind, pt 1 - Goethe, Schiller & The Symbol
Something happened to the human mind around the birth of modernity: the divorce of reality and the symbol. Once unified in eucharist, the symbolic and the real are now separate spheres of the human mi...
5 Aug 20251h 39min
Q&A #12
Additional episode will release tomorrow. Erich Heller two-parter starts next week for the season finale!
29 Jul 20252h 24min
