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Concluding Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885).
What's the wise way to live? We start in earnest into part three, treating the "spirit of gravity," where socially imposed values cover over your uniqueness; omni-satisfaction vs. being choosy; "Old and New Tablets," where Nietzsche explores various ethical and meta-ethical issues (e.g., is self-overcoming a matter of one-time self-actualization or is it continual?); and more on the Overman and eternal recurrence.
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End song: "Upright Man" by Rachel Taylor Brown, as interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music #91.
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Christos says
May 7, 2019 at 3:35 amAlthough one of my favorite works of art contains parts that annoyed you all, you were fair and made a lot of sense of some difficult areas in it. Also glad that you briefly touched on Nietzsche’s ethics. If you haven’t already, check out Leiter’s new book Moral Psychology with Nietzsche. In my opinion, he’s one of the best Nietzsche scholars, and this book brings together and elaborates on some of the excellent work he’s done in the past related to Nietzsche’s methodological naturalism and metaethics. He’d be a great guest to have on PEL if you guys return to Nietzsche, which I’m sure you will.