2024-10-14
37 分钟Hello, everyone.
I'm Steven West.
This is Philosophize This.
So this episode's building off the last two episodes on Nietzsche and affirming life as it is.
And if you're someone that hears what Nietzsche has to say and goes, wow, wow, checkmate philosophy.
I mean, this guy, Frederick, just destroyed all you.
Go grab your herd membership cards, get together, find a place to moot each other in a field for the rest of your lives,
and let the cultural elites like Frederick take over from now on.
Well, if that's how you're feeling, then unfortunately,
it's gonna be a very short-lived party for you, but that's a good thing, I think, ultimately.
I mean, you could probably see it coming.
Like, if you're Nietzsche and you say the kind of things we've been talking about,
dunking on the entire history of philosophy,
even if you're right about some of these things, you're just unleashing the hounds on yourself when you talk like this.
Future philosophers are gonna come after you, and when they do,
they're gonna be very smart and find where you made all your mistakes.
Which Nietzsche, no doubt, would have appreciated, by the way.
But the point is, there are a ton of people disagreeing with him even just a few years after his work.
One of which we talked about last time was Martin Heidegger.
You know, to Heidegger, despite Nietzsche seeing himself as someone that despised Plato's work,