Episode #211 ... Nietzsche returns with a hammer!

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  Hello, everyone.

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  I'm Stephen West.

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  This is Philosophize This.

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  So we live in a time where people will do some pretty moronic stuff in the name of their political beliefs.

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  We also live in a time where it's common for people to look at that moronic behavior that's going on and say, you know,

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  the only reason that person is doing any of that stuff is

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  because they're a follower of the philosophy of Marx or Einrand or Hobbes or Machiavelli,

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  Frere last time.

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  Well,

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  another thinker whose work it's this very same kind of treatment in the modern world is the work of Frederick Nietzsche.

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  No shortage of people out there will cite Frederick Nietzsche as the inspiration behind their behavior.

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  And there's even more people out there that blame Nietzsche for the behavior of other people they see as problematic.

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  So as the resident guy that spent way too much time reading philosophy in his life,

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  and then passes those savings on to you,

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  I want to offer some context in Nietzsche's work today that we've never gone into on this podcast before.

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  Just hasn't made sense to bring it up before this point, but it's a great story to know.

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  It's important to know if you're a fan of philosophy, why Nietzsche had such an impact on the history of philosophy.

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  It's important to understand why he described what he was doing in his work as philosophizing with a hammer.

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  And look, by the end of the episode,

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  I'm hoping you'll at least know some of the main arguments for why Nietzsche was doing his work,

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