Nietzsche: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (Part 1 of 8) essentialsalts 2024-02-28 | Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQPatreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #ancientphilosophy #greekphilosophy #heraclitus #thales #anaximander #anaxagoras #empedocles #parmenides #democritus Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as Nietzsche’s more popular writings. You will not find his major concepts in this work – such as the will to power, or the critique of metaphysics - except insofar as those ideas appear in the background, inchoate, unnamed… not yet fully formed. In Nietzsche’s interpretation of the Pre-Platonic philosophers of Ancient Greece, we find the starting place for his later philosophical career. The inspiration for many of those great ideas, can arguably be found in his exegesis of these extraordinary figures from the Hellenic world, from the 6th to the 4th century BC. In this series we’ll consider Nietzsche’s view of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles & Democritus.
Nietzschean Halloween Broadcast essentialsalts 2024-10-15 | Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQ
The Secret History by Donna Tartt - A Philosophical Analysis essentialsalts 2024-10-08 | Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQThe Nietzsche Podcast, #104. Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History is a loveletter to Greek tragedy, that begins with a dedication from Nietzsche and Plato. Central to the story is the concept of the Dionysian, and the attempt of the main characters to experience the Dionysian. Richard Papen's fatal flaw is his "morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs". His undying quest for a beautiful aesthetic life leads him to become part of an elite clique of students at Hampden College in Vermont. All six of them are under the sway of a charismatic and mysterious professor named Julian Morrow. After his friends accidentally kill someone while attempting a modern-day bacchanalia, Richard finds himself drawn into their crime, as he does everything he can to help them cover it up. This year becomes the defining event of Richard's life, and the story is his retelling of this 'secret history' of how he became what he is. We will examine the novel's use of truth and appearance, and how the Dionysian in this story serves as a "pure fire of being" which burns away the false appearances of the characters in order to unify their appearance and essence, and force each person's nature to draw its final consequences. #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #nietzsche #ancientgreece #greektragedy #greekdrama #tragedy #thebacchae #dionysus #dionysian #euripedes #donnatartt #thesecrethistory
THE BACCHAE: Dionysus, The God of Illusions essentialsalts 2024-10-01 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQThe Nietzsche Podcast, #103. The Bacchae is a parennially popular Greek tragedy that portrays the coming of Dionysus to Greece. The Dionysian strikes Hellas like a wave of madness, and the play is full of miracles, illusions and other violations of the natural order. Often interpreted as a play about the conflict between religious experience and established dogma, or between the old order and the new, The Bacchae continues to fascinate because of the many layers of meaning that belie any easy analysis. We'll briefly discuss Nietzsche's opinion of Euripedes, and the ways in which Euripedes innovated the tragic form. Then we'll dive into the text and analyze the themes of the play. #historyofpsychology #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #nietzsche #ancientgreece #greektragedy #greekdrama #tragedy #thebacchae #dionysus #dionysian #euripedes
Did Emperor Pedro II meet Nietzsche? essentialsalts 2024-09-26 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQDid Emperor Dom Pedro II meet Friedrich Nietzsche? In this video, we examine the remarkable story that the two men met on a train car passing through the Alps, and had an involved philosophical conversation. Where does this story come from, what is the evidence for it, and should we consider this story real, or a legend? Geraldo Dias' article: philpapers.org/rec/DIAALH#history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #nietzsche #brazil #pedroii #dompedroii #monarchy #trains
Foucault DEEP DIVE: Western Civilizations Experience of Insanity essentialsalts 2024-09-24 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQThe Nietzsche Podcast, #102. Michel Foucault is one of the most influential philosophical thinkers of the 20th century. He remains a controversial figure, but undoubtedly he had a profound impact on the way we think about mental health and mental illness up to the present day. In this episode, we take a deep dive into his work, Madness & Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, based on his dissertation. In this work, Foucault charts a history of how madness was perceived and experienced in the western world, exploring the changes in understanding of insanity from the Middles Ages, to the Renaissance, to the Classical period (17th & 18th centuries), to the 19th century creation of the mental asylum, and finally to the foundation of psychoanalysis. #historyofpsychology #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #nietzsche #psychology #michelfoucault #foucault #postmodernism #neomarxism #criticaltheory #marxism #communism #capitalism #westerncivilization #theenlightenment #enlightenment #ageofreason #reason #insanity #madness #mentalhealth #mentalillness
What is Justice? Analyzing The Oresteia by Aeschylus essentialsalts 2024-09-17 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQThe Nietzsche Podcast, #101. Aeschylus' Oresteia is the only extant trilogy of Greek drama. Alongside the Parthenon, the Oresteia is considered one of the two greatest 'monuments' to the Golden Age of Athens. In this trilogy - The Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides - Aeschylus dramatizes a rite of passage from savagery to civilization. Over the course of the narrative, the ancient law of blood is overcome by a new civic law, sanctioned by the gods. The word "justice" (Dikê) is used more often in the Oresteia than in any other Greek tragedy. Through these verses, we witness a struggle from the hazy, mysterious world of archaic Greece, governed by gods who behaved capriciously and unpredictably, into the clarity of civic life, in which human beings are empowered to make the contextual decisions of governance. Michael D. Davis, lectures on Philosophy of Tragedy: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiyEzRZtxXGU_Q5-jFqhIHJYbsahnQBNd&si=7o-LZMjQfX5Mb657#historyofpsychology #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #nietzsche #ancientgreece #greektragedy #greekdrama #tragedy #orestes #thefuries #theeumenides #thelibationbearers #agamemnon #homer #aeschylus
Nietzsches Attack on Language - Peter Sloterdijks Nietzsche Apostle essentialsalts 2024-09-10 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQWelcome to the ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE of The Nietzsche Podcast. Today we're examining the speech of Peter Sloterdijk, given on the centennial of Nietzsche's death, and transcribed into the essay entitled, "Nietzsche Apostle". Sloterdijk puts forward the theory that languages are fundamentally an instrument of 'group narcissism' by which the group recognizes one another and celebrates themselves. However, with the Reversal effected by St. Paul, the function of language becomes self-lowering rather than self-celebrating. Nietzsche's radical use of language is to reclaim the prideful and self-celebratory use of language, and provide us with a 'Fifth Gospel'.#historyofpsychology #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #nietzsche #sloterdijk #petersloterdijk #philosophyoflanguage #language #thomasjefferson
The Cause of Mass Psychosis - An Analysis of Jungs Undiscovered Self essentialsalts 2024-09-03 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQIn 1956, Jung wrote the essay entitled, "Past and Future" in German, but we know it in English as "The Undiscovered Self". Having witnessed the horror of the world wars, and the ongoing apocalyptic danger of the Cold War, Jung attempted to explain why it was that societies sometimes went mad. This is how Europe experienced the outbreak of The Great War: as mass insanity. Why would free people gravitate towards cult-like tyrannies? How could ordinarily moral and reasonable people perpetrate acts of unthinkable violence? And how could our constitutional democracies remain susceptible to these outbursts, if we are so committed to principles such as freedom and human dignity? For Jung, the only answer is self-knowledge, but that is the one thing that modern society is making impossible. #carljung #psychology #historyofpsychology #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #nietzsche #freud #sigmundfreud #jung #jungian #archetypes #theshadow #shadowwork #ww1 #thecoldwar
The Philosophy of Yukio Mishima essentialsalts 2024-08-27 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQYukio Mishima (born Kimitake Hiraoka, 1925-1970) wrote dozens of stories, including famous works such as Confessions of a Mask, and Patriotism. He was considered for a Nobel Prize in literature about half a dozen times, through he never won. His works were adapted into films, which received international acclaim. He wrote modern No plays which were performed all over the world, in Europe and America. He is known for his provocative style, his romanticization of death and of warrior culture, and for his political radicalism. Mishima desired to return Japan to a pre-WWII samurai culture, ruled under the absolute authority of a divine emperor – and yet, his writing incorporates influences not only from traditional Japanese literature, but from writers from the west: Rilke, Wilde, Batailles, Klossowski, and, of course, Friedrich Nietzsche. From the time he was 19, when he first picked up a copy of Birth of Tragedy, Mishima had a lifelong fascination with Nietzsche. In this episode, we consider the major philosophical ideas in his combination of confession and criticism, Sun and Steel: the unity of art and action, the corrosive nature of words, and necessity of a 'beautiful death' to truly affirm one's existence. #mishima #yukiomishima #nietzsche #philosophy #philosophypodcast #historyofphilosophy #psychology #existentialism #samurai #japan #japanesephilosophy
OEDIPUS - The Ancient Tragedy That Still Haunts Us essentialsalts 2024-08-20 | Welcome to season five of The Nietzsche Podcast! First of all, a warm thank you to all of my listeners and patrons who have helped to make this show such a phenomenal success. For our first episode in this new collection of episodes, we're diving headfirst into the Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus Rex & Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles triumphed with the best tragedy at the Dionysia more than any other playwright, and Aristotle named Oedipus Rex the model tragedy. We will fully explore the tragic downfall of Oedipus, his redemptive last days at Colonus, and Friedrich Nietzsche's interpretation of the significance of Oedipus in Birth of Tragedy. Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQEpisode Art: Jean-Antoine-Theodore Giroust, Oedipus at Colonus (1788), Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons#thenietzschepodcast #philosophypodcast #history #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #philosophy #tragedy #greektragedy #sophocles #oedipus #oedipusrex #oedipusatcolonus #nietzsche #psychology #freud
Goethes Problem With Hegel essentialsalts 2024-08-13 | Goethe was friends with Hegel, but held a negative opinion of Hegel's philosophy. In this video, we discuss the comments Goethe that made about Hegel, and the numerous interactions between the two men: such as when Goethe invited Hegel over for lunch in order to see what his daughter-in-law would say about him. She concluded that he was either brilliant or a madman. Goethe also asserted that Hegelian philosophy and its ponderous, complex language was ruinous for one's writing style when adopted as an influence. This tension culminates in a conversation at a tea party when Hegel, who has a tendency to monopolize the conversation, is finally shut down by Goethe, who coins a wonderful phrase: "Those made ill by dialectics would find healing in the study of nature.”Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQ#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #goethe #hegel #hegelianism #faust
The Consciousness of Appearance (The Gay Science #5, I.45 - I.56) essentialsalts 2024-08-06 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQ#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy The conclusion of our readthrough of book I of The Gay Science! We’ll return to book II soon, but next week, we’re getting back to more regular episodes on a variety of different authors and topics. Cheers!
The Great Spectacle (The Gay Science #4 I.30 - I.44) essentialsalts 2024-07-30 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQ#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy
Great Minds Discuss People essentialsalts 2024-07-25 | We’ve all heard the saying, “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” In this video, we will take a critical view of this saying, based on the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQ#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy
The Gay Science #3: Vice that Breeds Virtue (I.21 - I.29) essentialsalts 2024-07-23 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQIn this episode, we discuss the way in which selfishness is the root of all selfless morality, how corruption produces greatness, why the ascetic is driven by ambition, and the age old question, "What is Life?"#nietzsche #thenietzschepodcast #philosophypodcast #philosophyEpisode art: Luis Tristan de Escamilla - St Louis Distributing Alms
The Gay Science #2: The Feeling of Power (I.10 - I.20) essentialsalts 2024-07-16 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollSupport the show on Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflections Join me this week, for a discussion of significant aphorisms from The Gay Science, including Consciousness, Evil, and The Feeling of Power.#nietzsche #philosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #psychology
lo-fi q&a with essentialsalts 🧂 to relax/study to essentialsalts 2024-07-11 | Buy my Book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollSupport the show on Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsQ&A #10, answering Patron questions. Come listen to me explain why life would be a mistake without music, decide whether Nietzsche's intended audience is Genghis Khan, be a shameless apologist for the millions of deaths under Marxism, give my thoughts on BAP's fanbase, reveal the plans for next season, review Pallbearer's new album & more!!
The Gay Science #1: What Advances the Species (Preface, I.1 - I.9) essentialsalts 2024-07-09 | A complete analysis of The Gay Science begins today with an examination of the preface and a breakdown of the beginning of book I, along with some brief remarks on the background of the work and its context within Nietzsche's broader canon. buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollSupport the show on Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflections#nietzsche #thenietzschepodcast #philosophypodcast #history #historyofphilosophy #psychology #metaphysics #schopenhauer #kant #hegel #germanidealism
Why I Create Such Good Podcasts essentialsalts 2024-06-18 | Getting something constructive out of completely unconstructive criticism.
Destroyer of Light’s Last Tour essentialsalts 2024-06-17 | THIS IS THE END: An Audio/Visual CollageA collection of moments: sounds and sights from the final Destroyer of Light tour. We traveled to the West Coast in April of 2024, for a three week run of shows. I captured our last time out on the road on video. Also included are some brief interviews with the band members, asking them to reflect on their past experiences.We decided to end this band of 12 years sometime around the beginning of this year. Our bassist told us that he was moving to Atlanta, and the three original members gathered and discussed the future. Everyone was on the same page: rather than seek out a 5th person to play the bass, we would instead end the group. This is not a sad development, nor is there any drama or in-fighting involved. It's just that things have run their natural course and there is nowhere else to go from here. Our last tour was incredibly well-received and many people told us that we "couldn't" quit. On the contrary, it is best to go out now before we do really start to resent the project and the demands it makes on us. We all have other projects to focus on. Steve is in Temple of Love, Mike is in Cortege, Penny and I are in Slumbering in. It's time to let this thing die; and if it ever was of any real importance to anyone, I suppose we'll only find out once it is dead.Thank you to all the bands we performed with: Viuda, Acid Spitter Traumatone, Sonolith, Psalm, Blast Flashes, Dark Crone, Qaalm, Gigantum, Empress, Bongfather, A.S.O.M.C., Die Like Gentlemen, Skulldozer, Breath, Dream Circuit, Suicide Forest, Ghorot, Shadow & Claw, Harvest of Ash, Octopus Tree, To be Astronauts, Gurney, Mold, Phantom Black, Sun & Stone, Medicine Horse, DustLord, Ghost Hollow, Direwolf, Pig Sticker, Pool, Lotus Lords, Sons of Gulliber, TemptressThank you to everyone special, who helped the tour happen: Brian Moy, Sara & Morgan, Tom & Russell, The Tannises, Jerry Colca, Kelsey Wilson, Carson (of Ghorot), Zach & Teresa, Kyle & Nico Williams, Book Ann, CT & our brothers in RWAKE, our brothers in Pallbearer, and everyone else who made our final run unbelievably amazing. Eternal love.
Nietzsches Most Important Teaching essentialsalts 2024-06-11 | Buy my Book: amazon.com/Ritual-Madness-Rock-Roll-Aesthetics/dp/1685134130Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsA summary of Nietzsche's teachings, examined by considering the parallel of Schopenhauer's influence on Nietzsche with how the modern person could adopt Nietzsche as a similar type of influence. I attempt to distill the central message of Nietzsche's philosophy, and explain how this interpretative framework helps elucidate new angles to many of his important ideas. This episode is my final word on Nietzsche's philosophy, considered in its totality, as the podcast transitions away from our focus on the primary sources in Nietzsche and into interpretations of Nietzsche and Nietzsche-adjacent material. A love letter to the fans and a last hurrah into exegesizing Nietzsche, incorporating topics from throughout the season and with callbacks to the earliest episodes. Celebrating three years of The Nietzsche Podcast as of this month! Episode art: Maxfield Parish - Jason and His Teacher, Chiron the Centaur#nietzsche #philosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #goethe #rousseau #schopenhauer #pessimism #westernphilosophy #westerncivilization #history #historyofphilosophy
NIETZSCHES UNDERWORLD: The Eight Philosophers REQUIRED for Understanding Him essentialsalts 2024-06-05 | Buy my Book: amazon.com/Ritual-Madness-Rock-Roll-Aesthetics/dp/1685134130Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsIn the aphorism, "Journey to Hades" in Human All Too Human Vol 2, Nietzsche lists eight thinkers who helped to shape his thought. Each of these eight is paired with another thinker, a choice which is intentional and intended to reveal something about each pair. These eight are: Epicurus and Montaigne; Goethe and Spinoza; Plato and Rousseau; Pascal and Schopenhauer. In this episode, we will examine each one of these pairs in order to determine what similarities and what differences Nietzsche is attempting to elucidate in counterposing them. In comprehending each of these pairs, we can come to a full understanding of the early development of Nietzsche's thought, and see the way in which he was in dialogue with the ancients. The method of this passage hints at the way in which all of us can orm a relationship to Nietzsche in a similar fashion. Episode art is Johannes Stradanus - Ulysses in Hades#nietzsche #philosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #goethe #spinoza #epicurus #montaigne #plato #rousseau #pascal #schopenhauer #pessimism #westernphilosophy #westerncivilization #history #historyofphilosophy
Ecce Homo Explained: Nietzsche Reviews His Own Books essentialsalts 2024-05-28 | Buy my book: https://www.blackrosewriting.com/biog...Patreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVC...#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy The second part of a two-parter we began near the beginning of this season. The completion of our analysis of Ecce Homo. In this episode, we consider Nietzsche's reviews of his own books, and argue that it presents a creative narrative of Nietzsche's life: Nietzsche as a tragic figure. Nietzsche mythologizes himself and the circumstances of his great works, dabbling in exaggerations and lacunae - but nevertheless providing an invaluable interpretation the significance of his entire career, and commentary on the development of his thought. With Nietzsche's comments, we can construe his life's work into an early period, an affirmative period that begins with his middle works and culminates with Zarathustra, and a critical period that characterizes his later work.
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The Idle Hours of a Psychologist essentialsalts 2024-05-22 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollPatreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQ#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy The Twilight of Idols is described by Nietzsche as a work of leisure: a leap sideways, a bit of sunshine, a form of play rather than work. The laboriousness of 'notebook psychology', in which one strains and squints and spies on reality, could not be further from this natural discernment based on what one is given. In this episode, we explore exactly what Nietzsche means by this distinction. Once again, it is tied in with his differentiation between the artistic and the theoretic. Through Twilight of Idols, Nietzsche remarks on psychology and his approach to it, suggests that it is found in literature, and suggests that some men who claim to be psychologists are really just head cases. Join me as we consider these ideas at a leisurely pace. Episode art is Satan Resting on the Mountain by Gustave Dore.
Thought Falsifies Reality - NIETZSCHE’S FOUR GREAT ERRORS essentialsalts 2024-05-14 | Buy my Book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollSupport the show on Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsA deep dive into one of the most important passages in Twilight of Idols. We’ll explore Nietzsche’s critique of our erroneous habits of thought: mistaking the effect for the cause, false causality, creating imaginary causes, creating a doer of the deed, and free will. We explore Nietzsche’s explanation for how these errors take hold of our thought, the psychological need for these errors, and why they persist. #nietzsche #podcast #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #psychology #spirituality #atheism #metaphysics
The Ritual Madness of Rock & Roll - Sample Chapter and Q&A essentialsalts 2024-05-11 | Buy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandrollI'm going to read from a chapter of my new book, talk about what it's like to be a touring musician, and how my musical background ties into the podcast. Some of this I've talked about publicly before, but I'm sure most of you haven't heard about it. Then, I'll take questions from the audience on anything/everything related to the book, Nietzsche, music, etc.
Answering Questions on The Nietzsche Podcast essentialsalts 2024-05-07 | Q&A #9 (Answering Patron Questions)Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsBuy my book: blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandroll
Carl Jung: The REAL REASON for Nietzsches Madness essentialsalts 2024-04-30 | Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsCarl Jung contributed to psychoanalysis in an important way, but that contribution to the field is inseparable from his engagement with Nietzsche. Jung derived a wealth of insights from Nietzsche’s work, and his psychological state that deteriorated into madness. Jung’s central hypothesis is that Nietzsche was possessed by an archetype. Such archetypal inflation was the result of a deep imbalance within Nietzsche’s psyche, springing from his rejection of the spiritual.#nietzsche #thenietzschepodcast #philosophy #philosophypodcast #psychoanalysis #psychology #carljung #jung
Archetypes EXPLAINED: Introduction to Jung essentialsalts 2024-04-23 | Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQPatreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy Carl Gustave Jung was a student of Freud, but broke from his mentor in a dramatic way. Jung acquired the reputation of being a mystic, and put forward ideas that pushed the boundaries of psychoanalysis. This is a crash course in Jung’s most important ideas: projection, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. In this episode, we go in-depth on the major archetypes that Jung describes. These are subpersonalities that exist in every human unconsciousness, which will manifest insensibly in one’s desires, and find themselves projected by the subject into the external world.
Weltgeist & Essentialsalts: Schopenhauer v/s Nietzsche on Art essentialsalts 2024-04-16 | Weltgeist's Channel: youtube.com/@WeltgeistYTMy Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsWe discussed Schopenhauer v/s Nietzsche on the question of aesthetics, Schopenhauer's philosophy in Wagner's music, the Pale Blue Dot, Plato's Symposium, reason and art as luxuries of civilization, and much more!#philosophy #philosophypodcast #history #historyofphilosophy #nietzsche #schopenhauer #wagner
Daniel Tutt on The Nietzsche Podcast essentialsalts 2024-04-09 | Daniel's book, How to Read Like a Parasite: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740015/how-to-read-like-a-parasite-by-daniel-tuttMy Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsDaniel Tutt is the author of How to Read Like a Parasite, subtitled, How the Left Got High On Nietzsche, a new book which warns leftist thinkers about the power and danger of Nietzsche. Daniel has a long history of engaging with Nietzsche’s philosophy, and argues for a pugilistic relationship with him. In his view, the French leftists who utilized Nietzsche’s work centered Nietzsche to their own detriment. Daniel’s project aims not at canceling Nietzsche, but in reading him with a sober understanding of his political perspective and the ways in which it informs all of his ideas. #nietzsche #marx #marxism #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast
Stephen Hicks on The Nietzsche Podcast essentialsalts 2024-04-02 | Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsUntimely Reflections #28: Stephen Hicks - Is Nietzsche a Postmodernist?Center for Ethics & Entrepreneurship YT Channel: youtube.com/@CEEChannel/featuredStephen Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher, and the author of numerous books, including Understanding Postmodernism, and Nietzsche & the Nazis. As Professor Hicks is a critic of postmodernism, I decided to ask him about Nietzsche's connection to postmodern thought. We discussed chapter one of Beyond Good and Evil. Is Nietzsche a postmodernist, and to what extent did he influence them? How do we explain the moral differences between Nietzsche and the postmodernists? We also discussed some topics related to objectivism and Ayn Rand. How does Nietzsche's epistemology and ethics differ from that of Ayn Rand? Professor Hicks articulates the case for the foundationalist view, and we finished the conversation by discussing the state of the academy as he sees it, and the future of philosophy.#philosophy #philosophypodcast #nietzsche #postmodernism #aynrand #individualism
Freud LIED When He Denied Nietzsches Influence essentialsalts 2024-03-26 | Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSigmund Freud (1856-1939) said of Nietzsche that he had "more penetrating knowledge of himself than any man who ever lived or was likely to live." In spite of this, Freud always denied that Nietzsche was an influence on his thought, in spite of his multiple references to Nietzsche in his early work. While Freud certainly drew from Nietzsche's ideas, he was an original thinker in his own right, who followed on the same path of inquiry as Nietzsche, but with the tools of empirical research and the within the scientific spirit of psycho-analysis. Freud comes to believe that the driving force of human life is libido, a sexual impulse, and that the stages of psychosexual development determine the health or pathology of one's adult life. Central to his analysis of human psychology is the Oedipus Complex, and his notion that the superego emerges to suppress it. In this episode, we also discuss the Id (Unconsciousness), the faculty of repression, the concept of cathexis, and the meaning of dreams. In spite of the ways in which Freud has been marginalized in recent years, in his work we find an extraordinary thinker who built upon Nietzsche's ideas, and truly managed to change the entire paradigm of psychological thinking. #nietzsche #freud #freudian #psychology #psychoanalysis #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #oedipus #thenietzschepodcast
Nietzsche was WRONG about Christianity: René Girard essentialsalts 2024-03-19 | The Nietzsche Podcast, episode 88, "The Case for the Crucified".Patreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQAmong Nietzsche's critics, René Girard is perhaps unique. Girard's understanding of human civilization and the origins of human culture is that it is based on ritual, collective violence against a scapegoated individual - and he argues that Nietzsche is one of the only thinkers hitherto who understood this. Nietzsche's famous formula - Dionysus versus the Crucified - is the title of Girard's critical essay on Nietzsche. He does not quibble with Nietzsche's framing of the situation, but rather with Nietzsche's conclusions. While Nietzsche takes up for the side of Dionysus, Girard stands on the side of the Crucified, arguing that Nietzsche was fundamentally wrong to lament the ascendance of Christianity and to yearn for a return to the Dionysian. In the course of Nietzsche's defense of Dionysus, he put forward moral theories that were "untenable", and become increasingly "inhuman". Among the many commenters of Nietzsche, both disciples and critics, it is rare to find a figure like Girard, who recognizes Nietzsche's brilliance, but totally condemns his legacy. Join me today to learn about the life of Rene Girard, his theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating, and the impassioned case he puts forward for The Crucified. #renegirard #girard #nietzsche #philosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #historyofphilosophy #greekphilosophy #frenchphilosophy #christianity #atheism #religion #religiousphilosophy
Science and Wisdom in Battle essentialsalts 2024-03-12 | #nietzsche #philosophy #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #historyofphilosophy #greekphilosophy Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQPatreon: patreon.com/untimelyreflectionsToday we examine an 1875 Fragment, entitled "Science and Wisdom in Battle". Not only does this fragment contain one of my favorite quotations of Nietzsche's, it represents his continual grappling with the meaning of Ancient Greek culture. In particular, we discuss the importance of "relations of tension" in Nietzsche's earlier work: art versus science, culture versus the state, history versus forgetting, and of course, science and wisdom. Both are drives to knowledge, and the tension between them created philosophy in the tragic age of the Hellenes. Science is characterized by logical, objective, specialized knowledge, whereas Wisdom is defined by Nietzsche as a tendency for illogical generalization, leaping to one's ultimate goal, and an artistic desire to reflect the world in one's own mirror.
Nietzsche on Democritus & Conclusion (Part 8 of 8) essentialsalts 2024-03-08 | Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQPatreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #ancientphilosophy #greekphilosophy #heraclitus #thales #anaximander #anaxagoras #empedocles #parmenides #democritus Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as Nietzsche’s more popular writings. You will not find his major concepts in this work – such as the will to power, or the critique of metaphysics - except insofar as those ideas appear in the background, inchoate, unnamed… not yet fully formed. In Nietzsche’s interpretation of the Pre-Platonic philosophers of Ancient Greece, we find the starting place for his later philosophical career. The inspiration for many of those great ideas, can arguably be found in his exegesis of these extraordinary figures from the Hellenic world, from the 6th to the 4th century BC. In this series we’ll consider Nietzsche’s view of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles & Democritus.
Nietzsche on Empedocles (Part 7 of 8) essentialsalts 2024-03-07 | Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQPatreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #ancientphilosophy #greekphilosophy #heraclitus #thales #anaximander #anaxagoras #empedocles #parmenides #democritus Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as Nietzsche’s more popular writings. You will not find his major concepts in this work – such as the will to power, or the critique of metaphysics - except insofar as those ideas appear in the background, inchoate, unnamed… not yet fully formed. In Nietzsche’s interpretation of the Pre-Platonic philosophers of Ancient Greece, we find the starting place for his later philosophical career. The inspiration for many of those great ideas, can arguably be found in his exegesis of these extraordinary figures from the Hellenic world, from the 6th to the 4th century BC. In this series we’ll consider Nietzsche’s view of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles & Democritus.
Nietzsche on Anaxagoras (Part 6 of 8) essentialsalts 2024-03-06 | Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQPatreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #ancientphilosophy #greekphilosophy #heraclitus #thales #anaximander #anaxagoras #empedocles #parmenides #democritus Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as Nietzsche’s more popular writings. You will not find his major concepts in this work – such as the will to power, or the critique of metaphysics - except insofar as those ideas appear in the background, inchoate, unnamed… not yet fully formed. In Nietzsche’s interpretation of the Pre-Platonic philosophers of Ancient Greece, we find the starting place for his later philosophical career. The inspiration for many of those great ideas, can arguably be found in his exegesis of these extraordinary figures from the Hellenic world, from the 6th to the 4th century BC. In this series we’ll consider Nietzsche’s view of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles & Democritus.
Nietzsche on Parmenides (Part 5 of 8) essentialsalts 2024-03-05 | Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQPatreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #ancientphilosophy #greekphilosophy #heraclitus #thales #anaximander #anaxagoras #empedocles #parmenides #democritus Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as Nietzsche’s more popular writings. You will not find his major concepts in this work – such as the will to power, or the critique of metaphysics - except insofar as those ideas appear in the background, inchoate, unnamed… not yet fully formed. In Nietzsche’s interpretation of the Pre-Platonic philosophers of Ancient Greece, we find the starting place for his later philosophical career. The inspiration for many of those great ideas, can arguably be found in his exegesis of these extraordinary figures from the Hellenic world, from the 6th to the 4th century BC. In this series we’ll consider Nietzsche’s view of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles & Democritus.
Nietzsche on Heraclitus (Part 4 of 8) essentialsalts 2024-03-01 | Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQPatreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #ancientphilosophy #greekphilosophy #heraclitus #thales #anaximander #anaxagoras #empedocles #parmenides #democritus Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as Nietzsche’s more popular writings. You will not find his major concepts in this work – such as the will to power, or the critique of metaphysics - except insofar as those ideas appear in the background, inchoate, unnamed… not yet fully formed. In Nietzsche’s interpretation of the Pre-Platonic philosophers of Ancient Greece, we find the starting place for his later philosophical career. The inspiration for many of those great ideas, can arguably be found in his exegesis of these extraordinary figures from the Hellenic world, from the 6th to the 4th century BC. In this series we’ll consider Nietzsche’s view of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles & Democritus.
Nietzsche on Anaximander (Part 3 of 8) essentialsalts 2024-02-29 | Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQPatreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #ancientphilosophy #greekphilosophy #heraclitus #thales #anaximander #anaxagoras #empedocles #parmenides #democritus Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as Nietzsche’s more popular writings. You will not find his major concepts in this work – such as the will to power, or the critique of metaphysics - except insofar as those ideas appear in the background, inchoate, unnamed… not yet fully formed. In Nietzsche’s interpretation of the Pre-Platonic philosophers of Ancient Greece, we find the starting place for his later philosophical career. The inspiration for many of those great ideas, can arguably be found in his exegesis of these extraordinary figures from the Hellenic world, from the 6th to the 4th century BC. In this series we’ll consider Nietzsche’s view of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles & Democritus.
Nietzsche on Thales (Part 2 of 8) essentialsalts 2024-02-28 | Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE?si=5nTQubi9QU-HDP8pNzEKaQPatreon: www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections#nietzsche #philosophypodcast #thenietzschepodcast #history #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #ancientphilosophy #greekphilosophy #heraclitus #thales #anaximander #anaxagoras #empedocles #parmenides #democritus Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as Nietzsche’s more popular writings. You will not find his major concepts in this work – such as the will to power, or the critique of metaphysics - except insofar as those ideas appear in the background, inchoate, unnamed… not yet fully formed. In Nietzsche’s interpretation of the Pre-Platonic philosophers of Ancient Greece, we find the starting place for his later philosophical career. The inspiration for many of those great ideas, can arguably be found in his exegesis of these extraordinary figures from the Hellenic world, from the 6th to the 4th century BC. In this series we’ll consider Nietzsche’s view of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles & Democritus.
