Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this.

So I have a bit of a special announcement I'd like to make for any of you that

support the show on Patreon. And I guess this also applies to the people that contribute

what they think the show's worth and to anybody that gets merch out there too.

Formal announcement, I am thankful for what you do. Hope you love the show today.

So this series has been called the creation of Meeting So Far. And the hope has been that we

might be able to get some sort of insight into how to go about doing that by looking at the

work of various different thinkers. But if there's anything from last time that it's important

to reiterate from the very outside here, it's that when it comes to Nietzsche in particular,

it was not his ambition, nor is it the ambition of this podcast for that matter, to relay to you

some high-resolution image of which system of values you should be constructing in your life.

Nobody wants to give you all the colors and all the details of the picture that you're going to

paint. Nietzsche wasn't even trying to give you a paint by numbers in his work. To many of the

existentialists, it is your responsibility to paint your own canvas. And while no doubt,

you are going to take inspiration from the paintings of other people around you,

other famous paintings that have been created throughout history. While you'll no doubt take

inspiration, you should see it as an immediate red flag if someone's ever trying to sell you

that high-resolution image of what kind of person you should be. In many ways, it might be a good

strategy to proceed with the mindset that the more detailed of a picture someone's trying to get

you to buy, the more skepticism you should have towards that whole transaction overall.

See, Nietzsche thought there wasn't a field manual or rules for life. And by the way, even if there

was, as someone that listens to this kind of show, are you really the kind of person that's going

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