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

So this episode's building off the last two episodes on Nietzsche and affirming life as it is.

And if you're someone that hears what Nietzsche has to say and goes, wow, checkmate philosophy. I mean this guy Frederick just

destroyed all you. Go grab your herd membership cards, get together, find a place to moo at each

other in a field for the rest of your lives and let the

cultural elites like Frederick take over from now on. Well if that's how you're

feeling then unfortunately gonna be a very short-lived party for you but that's a

good thing I think ultimately.

I mean, you could probably see it coming. Like if you're Nietzsche and you say the kind of things we've been talking about,

dunking on the entire history of philosophy, even if you're right about some of these things, you're just unleashing

the hounds on yourself when you talk like this. Future philosophers are going to come after you,

and when they do, they're going to be very smart and find where you made all your mistakes.

Which Nietzsche no doubt would have appreciated by the way, but the point is,

there are a ton of people disagreeing with him even just a few years after his work.

One of which we talked about last time was Martin Heidegger.

You know, to Heidegger, despite Nietzsche seeing himself as someone that despised Plato's work,

as someone that moved beyond the metaphysics of the ideal versus the real,

to Heidegger, Nietzsche in his work had really just created the

inversion of Platonism where he makes the same kind of mistake that Plato does and

needlessly favors the real over the ideal. I mean to Heidegger whenever Nietzsche

brings up the concept of the will to power in his work, by doing that, he is embedding himself in the same metaphysical tradition that he was claiming to try to move past. He was still operating on the assumption, in other words, that being itself

always needs to be viewed from the dualistic perspective of being a subject that's

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