2024-10-01
38 分钟Hello, everyone.
I'm Steven West.
This is Philosophize This.
So I want to continue where we left off last episode, which means you may need to listen to that one before this one.
It's just fair warning.
I'm talking from here on out as though you've listened to it with little explanation.
It's called Nietzsche Returns with a Hammer.
Now, I want to talk more about this life-affirming perspective that Nietzsche's bringing up in his later work.
What would it look like
if someone woke up in the morning and started their day from a place where they were affirming all aspects of life
as they were rather than renouncing them,
rather than that overly rational,
overly idealistic way of living
that just recreates a classic Christian renunciative way of looking at the world that in his eyes is responsible for the decay of Western society.
What would that world of life affirmation look like and what would a morality structured around affirmation even be like?
I mean, these are questions that really captivated Nietzsche for a lot of his later career.
They're tough questions to answer too, by the way, and we'll get into what he had to say about them.
But first, real quick, if on this episode we're going to try to look at the world through this life-affirming lens,
you know, if you're trying to see things in a new way,
and if you're someone who's intrigued by the story Nietzsche's telling of him smashing the idols from the history of Western thought with a hammer,