207: Nietzsche, Leopardi, and the Meaning of Meaning

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this episode, we complete our series on "The Genealogy of Morals." We talk about the heritage of Schopenhauer and how that has affected Freddy's philosophy.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to Classical Stuff. You Should Know a podcast about classical world, classical books, old things, education, raising children up into virtue, and all that great stuff.
0:22.0	My name is Graham Donaldson, and I am joined with my two fellow podcasters in crime.
0:29.1	No.
0:29.7	Wow.
0:30.3	Podcasters in like hour-long mediocrity age.
0:35.8	Yeah, I think sometimes what we do
0:37.5	could be classified as a crime.
0:38.9	I hope not.
0:39.9	Yeah.
0:39.9	And Thomas Fletcher Megby.
0:41.5	Hello.
0:41.9	Speaking of online,
0:42.8	or no,
0:43.2	one hour mediocrity,
0:44.2	that's what we're setting up for.
0:45.6	And Thomas,
0:46.4	I am feeling a little listless.
0:51.3	I'm feeling a little drift.
0:53.3	Okay. I'm feeling like I'm lacking agency and power.
0:58.3	And I wish that I could just will myself into being a better, stronger person. Yeah. This episode
1:05.2	A powerful person. Uh-huh. Maybe the most powerful. Maybe a kind of Ubermensch? Yes, right. Okay.
1:09.9	Where I can like glower from on high down on the little people.
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