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Today's episodes on Nietzsche and what many consider to be his seminal work entitled thus spokes are a thustra. I hope you love the show today

All right, so whenever you're talking to somebody about Nietzsche's philosophy

Well, yes more specifically the six or seven books that make up the main body of his philosophy a common way that people like to sort of

Package it all together and break it down as to say that what Nietzsche's trying to do all throughout his work

Is he's trying to get us to rethink all the fundamental assumptions that we're making about three major parts of our thinking number one

Our thoughts about God and religion

Talked about that on Nietzsche part one when we talked about these true world theories and how they are ultimately to Nietzsche

Clever human inventions to fill and intrinsic psychological void for meaning number two our thoughts about human nature

That was Nietzsche part two when we talked about the world of power what it means to be a human being and why we do what we do

Well the third and final area that people commonly say Nietzsche's trying to get us to think about is a concept that we're actually all very familiar with

It's the idea that everything in the universe can ultimately be classified as being part of one of two

Extremely broad categories that we like to call good and evil

Something is either good or it's evil

Everything every event every example of human behavior that you can point to if we look at it closely enough

We can determine which one of these two columns that falls under good or evil

So it's only fitting that when Nietzsche's looking for the main character for what many consider to be his

Seminal work he gets the guy that invented the concept of good versus evil

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