A look at how poverty was valued, in connection to virtue and to justice, within Jesus’s philosophy.
Entering the Stoic World, Part 1: Cynicism 2.0
Some early Stoics argued for disrespecting private property, fornicating in temples, and eating one’s parents when they died.
Parables as a Guide to Jesus the Philosopher, Part 8: More Possessiveness
With the parable of the Rich Fool, Jesus commends the practice of memento mori as a release from anxiety about one’s life.
Episode 11: Nietzsche’s Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway?
Discussing The Genealogy of Morals (mostly the first two essays) and Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 1 (The Prejudices of Philosophers), 5 (Natural History of Morals), and 9 (What is Noble?).
End song: “The Greatest F’in Song in the World,” from 1998’s Mark Lint and the Fake Johnson Trio.
We go through Nietzsche’s convoluted and historically improbable stories about about the transition from master to slave morality and the origin of bad conscience. Why does he diss Christianity? Is he an anti-semite? Was he a lazy, arrogant bastard? What does he actually recommend that we do?
Episode 11: Nietzsche’s Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway?
Discussing The Genealogy of Morals (mostly the first two essays) and Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 1 (The Prejudices of Philosophers), 5 (Natural History of Morals), and 9 (What is Noble?).