Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Socrates was ugly and tired of life, so he made a tyrant of reason. Philosophers are mummies who hate the body and the senses. Reason is a tricky old woman. Morality is a misunderstanding. Kant is a sneaky Christian. And don't even get Nietzsche started on "free will" or the "self" - just excuse for priests to punish people, a hangman's metaphysics. David and Tamler dive into Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols, a fascinating set of aphorisms brimming with passion, provocation, questions without answers.
Plus, a professor is sanctioned for sex talk with his students - fair or coddling foul?
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Links:
- George Mason University investigation faults professor for sexual talk with students in class and a hot tub, court records show - The Washington Post
- Nietzsche, F. "Twilight of the Idols" [amazon.com affiliate link] — This is the version we read, but there's a cheaper kindle version on Amazon if you search (at least on the US website).
- Twilight of the Idols - Wikipedia
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.3 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.1 | Me, I always tell it to. |
| 0:21.8 | Even when I lie. |
| 0:24.0 | So say good night to the bad guy. |
| 0:30.3 | The cleaning of his fault and |
| 0:34.7 | a new attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:43.2 | Who are you? |
| 0:45.3 | Who are you? |
| 0:46.9 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:50.2 | Good man. |
| 0:54.4 | They think he's lost and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:58.4 | They know our attention. |
| 0:59.5 | They're not bad. |
| 1:04.5 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:08.4 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:10.9 | They're a very good man. |
| 1:12.8 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:15.3 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
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