2024-10-21
37 分钟Hello, everyone.
I'm Steven West.
This is Philosophize This.
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So if I wanted to set myself up for failure here today,
I'd tell you I was going to explain all of High Digger to you in the next 30 minutes.
Luckily, I'm too old to be making that mistake, and you're too old to be believing in it anyway, quite frankly.
One thing I can hope to do here today, though,
is to tell you something I think is very jarring and pretty awesome about High Digger's work,
as well as something that's significant about it that'll help you place him in however you think about the history of philosophy.
See,
High Digger was one of the most important members of a movement in philosophy that was trying to question metaphysics at a level
that had really never been done before.
This is around the 1920s.
It's the beginning of his career.
And in many ways, as a German thinker himself,
he's reacting to the ripple effect that was created by the work of another German thinker that came before him,
a guy we've been talking about on the show lately named Frederick Nietzsche.
So if you've listened to the last few episodes,
then you know Nietzsche thought his work was the twilight of the idols from the history of philosophy,