12: The Horse-Hugging That Never Happened (And 7 Other Nietzsche Myths)
Nietzsche's philosophy drove him mad, everyone knows that. If it wasn't his philosophy itself, then perhaps the syphilis did him in. He collapsed in the streets of Turin, throwing his arms around a be...
7 Sep 20211h 6min
11: Master & Slave Morality
This week, we approach one of the most infamous ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche: the dual-prehistory of the morality we follow today. Throughout his career, Nietzsche had an inkling that the origins of o...
31 Aug 20211h 24min
10: "Free Will" & The Myth of Moral Responsibility
Returning to our regularly scheduled lectures on Nietzsche... this week, we're going to wade into a hornet's nest and tackle one of the most contentious topics: freedom of the will. This episode will ...
24 Aug 20211h 25min
Untimely Reflections #1: Mynaa Miesnowan - Art, Politics, and Religion
Untimely Reflections is a podcast within a podcast! In this series, I’ll be having conversations with other people interested in Nietzsche, and in philosophy. This time, I’m talking to Mynaa Miesnowan...
17 Aug 20211h 39min
9: The Wisdom of the Body
This week we’re going heavy on the source material, because this particular set of ideas was fleshed out (no pun intended) in passages spanning multiple works, and for the most part in unpublished not...
10 Aug 20211h 15min
8: Truth is a Woman & Loves Only a Warrior
The topic for this week is... The Truth. The Nietzschean view of truth is one of the most difficult positions to convey, because the nature of the topic requires pushing language to its limits. To que...
3 Aug 20211h 9min
7: Nietzsche V/S Socrates
I’m still out of town, wandering through the desert and the mountain-peaks (no, seriously). I’ll be home next week, but for now it’s still adaptations from my articles on Medium. This one also began a...
27 Juli 202146min
6: Weakness Corrupts
Since I’m out of town, I recorded some shorts for you! This one is a reading of a Medium Article I wrote, introducing the concept of resentment and will to power as a psychological phenomenon. Include...
20 Juli 202120min
