#480: Hiking With Nietzsche

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most polarizing and misunderstood of modern philosophers. Dismissed by some and misinterpreted by others, the real philosophy of Nietzsche in fact holds some incredibly life-affirming truths for everyone, regardless of belief or age. My guest today has spent much of both his personal and professional life tracking down those insights. At the age of 19 and then again at age 37, he traveled to the Swiss town where Nietzsche wrote his famous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and learned something different on each trip from the mustachioed philosopher about living a life of meaning and significance. His name is John Kaag, and he’s a professor of philosophy and the author of Hiking With Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are. In this compelling conversation, John discusses what he learned about life hiking the same mountain Nietzsche hiked, including the role that walking itself played in Nietzsche's approach to thinking. We begin with the biggest misconceptions about the philosopher, including what he really meant when he said “God is dead." John then walks us through Nietzsche's idea of the will to power, how this impulse should be balanced with amor fati -- the love of fate -- in order to achieve Nietzsche's ideal of becoming who you are, and the different things his philosophy can mean to a young man and to one approaching middle age. Get the show notes at aom.is/kaag.

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0:00.0	Bret McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast, Frederick Nietzsche,
0:19.0	is one of the most polarizing and misunderstood of modern philosophers.
0:22.6	Dismissed by some and misinterpreted by others, the real philosophy of Nietzsche and
0:26.0	Paulson incredibly life-furming truths for everyone, regardless of belief or age.
0:30.2	I guess they have spent much of both his personal and professional life tracking down those
0:33.4	insights.
0:34.4	At the age of 19 and then again at the age of 37, he traveled to the Swiss town where Nietzsche
0:38.2	wrote his famous work, thus spoke to their ethostra and learned something different in each
0:41.5	trip from the Mastashioid philosopher about living a life of meaning and significance.
0:45.5	His name is John Kig and he's a professor philosophy and the author of Hiking with Nietzsche
0:49.4	on becoming who you are.
0:51.0	In this compelling conversation, John discusses what he learned about life-hiking the same mountain
0:55.0	and Nietzsche hike, including the role that walking itself played in Nietzsche's approach
0:58.3	to thinking.
0:59.3	We begin with the biggest misconception about the philosopher, including what he really
1:02.1	meant when he said God is dead.
1:03.9	John then walks us through Nietzsche's idea of the will to power, how this impulse should
1:07.0	be balanced with the Morphatee, the love of fate, in order to achieve Nietzsche's ideal
1:10.9	of becoming who you are, and the different things his philosophy can mean to a young man
1:14.9	and to one approaching middle age.
1:17.0	After Schozerver, check out our show notes at aawm.is slash kig.
1:20.6	It's k-a-a-g.
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