Episode

[@catfein9827]

People don’t understand why I love philosophers who are alleged pessimists but I work in homeless services and nothing keeps my chin up in the face of such seeming despair like proper philosophy to give me perspective and optimism. Thanks for everything!!!

[@bemnethenock699]

Reading the works of thinkers inspired by neitzche is central to understanding how to apply his concept. For example focault would question the category " narcissism" as a way of supressing deviants. Or deleuze would oppose the static essensialist category of narcissism and propose that humans are becomings therefore narcissism is just one way individuals navigate power and desire in society. Stephen your intuition on presenting ideas at the right time is top notch.. god bless you😅 P.S I suggest y'all to start watching succesion a modern tragedy

[@Ungrievable]

Socrates: “Your mama so poor, she can't afford the will to power.” Nietzsche: “Your mama so old, she knew Socrates when he was just a baby.” Socrates: smh.

[@Phoenix_Rises]

I love this episode. It reminds me a lot of why I always appreciated Nietzsche's approach as he seems unpopular in certain circles. I think the outlook to renounce life itself comes from society and is also embedded in our psyche. It's good to question the limits of our own morality.

[@christinemartin63]

I see what you're doing with these recent podcasts ... and it's absolutely terrific. Bra--vo, friend!

[@maryjanemccarthy2907]

I'm ten minutes in and am saying "thank you!--- exactly!". Ok, I'll keep listening now.....

[@RobRaptor49]

I appreciate this so much!

[@sebastianstros3214]

Love your work. It was the main inspiration for me to study philosophy at university! Also consider doing and episode on Raymond Aron please:)

[@Driftking305forlife]

Damn another epic drop. Listening to this while benching at the gym

[@chadefallstar]

Good stuff!

[@orthostice]

I love this podcast. Thank you!! PS are there episodes on Gadamer/Ricoeur??

[@philosophizethispodcast]

Nope, but I'll add them to the list! Thanks for listening.

[@orthostice]

@@philosophizethispodcast Excellent! What's the best way to support the podcast?

[@josephrichards7624]

5:30 isn’t Nietzsche renouncing renouncing suffering?

[@OftheRefrain]

_Lest I forget that I even breathe_ Can there be anything but a Cadmean Victory? The repurposing of myths through their nonlinear character; My Greek library is robust and yet Virginian Woolf's _On Not Knowing Greek_ (1923) is a humbling self-accusation but I seek ageless connection. Readings in Trauma Studies and sometimes I get worn-out. Ambiguity doesn't bother me too much anymore but ambivalence triggers me something frightful. West, thank you. Sincerely. In parting, Plato certainly appealed to the myths but he is still one of the strongest writers that ever lived. Life has its symphonic movements, I feel that. Control is like a vapor. --Deleuze.

[@MrX-co6cj]

Is the hostility towards socrates really justified though? Assuming that Socrates style of questioning implied a timeless and unconditional definition of the terms he was asking about opposes his actual intention to point out the difficulties in claiming to have knowledge. Socrates concern might very well have been to show the people that their certainty of knowledge was unjustified via rational reasoning, the opposite however, to say that with rationality they could access complete knowledge is not socrates standpoint and apart from that a logical fallacy. Socrates at best knew that he knew nothing. If anything, its socrates method of reasoning that has been put into places where it didnt belong like for example artistic endeavours.

[@johnanderson1421]

Yes. Plus, it is easy to criticize Socrates emphasis on rationality and strict definitions from our hypermodern perspective, but 2500 yrs ago cultures were more irrational and mythical. These are qualities to Nietzsche but only because the pendulum had swung so far in the opposite direction. If we were transported back to ancient Greece we would likely find the emphasis on gods and myths quaint and amusing for a day or two at most.

[@andrewbowen2837]

It's not so much the method itself as his focus on hyper rationality and rejecting anything else

[@philosophizethispodcast]

Yes, well said.

[@Ungrievable]

Socrates sez to Nietzsche: “Your life isn’t worth living, even if you EXAMINED it!” Nietzsche responds: “oh yeah? Yo mama so ugly even the abyss won’t stare at her! 😏 Winner: Nietzsche.

[@beetlesstrengthandpower1890]

Hahahahahah

[@willkamps3271]

Camus' The Rebel is such a better follow up to the pedagogy of the oppressed, and neitzche is more ran through and blows harder than a double die Lincoln lot lizzard. That being said, I can't wait to listen to all thirty minutes with the utmost pensive attention.

[@bettusascaino5532]

So satisfying 🔥😊

[@pjaworek6793]

Part two, still looking for what kind of cultural elitism is being proposed. Now I'm captured by this paradox.

[@TennesseeJed]

❤❤❤❤

[@TennesseeJed]

I am fortunate to get these insights.

[@shuvranshugupta6466]

More on Nietzsche

[@Dayz3O6]

On the topic of discomfort it is very similar to stock day trading which is what I'm doing, losing money is part of day trading and you have to accept that it is normal to lose of course you also has to have risk management so that you lose but not too much compared to your profit ratio. To be successful in this career you have to rewire your brain to embrace pain and lost, not easy I'm still in the process. And when it comes to life discomfort and suffering is part of it, it is how you approach or react to it that is important. That cycle of Samsara.

[@zeshawnali5676]

While the assessment and take on the importance of tragedy as well as a general life affirming view as opposed to one that is driven by a neurotic dualism are perspectives, fleshed out the way they are, I can appreciate, rationality, language, communication and belief are inseparable , any prescription uses these precepts either poorly or well to deny their role in your philosophy is psychotic

[@ericjackson-nq4hp]

Socrates was sent down into [the realm of] generation as a _service_ to the race of men and the souls of the young. However, since there is great diversity with respect to the characters and ways of life of souls, he benefits each person differently. --Hermias, _On Plato Phaedrus 227A-245E_ The footnotes of that single excerpt alone could furnish a major metropolitan library many times over. In our modern parlance; like Heidegger's legendary lecture spent entirely on the opening sentence of the _Republic_ All I know, Hippocrates got super resentful once his uncle poisoned the water supply at the siege of Kirra during the First Sacred War. After that whole crime during war he devoted his life to the practice of healing. _The Greeks and the Irrational_ I wouldn't wish PTSD on my sworn enemy. No cause, no cause --Shakespeare, _The Tragedy of King Lear_ Antigone or Cordelia, I am not sure?

[@mykura2018]

Nietzsche wrote mostly all late his stuff under heavy influence of psychoactive substances ( mostly stimulants ) so he had no low mood or depression as most people in bad live situations who turn to christianity for help.

[@DrTimThemi]

This was great, Stephen. Here’s another lecture from a few weeks back touching on similar themes in Nietzsche from a slightly different perspective kzbin.info_M0VGuiB9gY?si=wQtfHnE1jp498KJF

[@stevesmith4901]

Tragedy just sounds like nihilism. A world devoid of meaning.

[@theultimatecuttlefish4008]

It’s not a life without meaning, it’s just meaning that is not preordained or always perfectly rational. A lack of objective meaning.

[@torinmccabe]

When you worship a single God (or ideological explanation of the world) you rationalize everything that happens to confirm that bias. When you worship many gods you have to constantly readjust your life and worship to the ever changing circumstances (cost benefit analysis).