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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, books 1 and 2 (1883).

What is wisdom? In this text whose style parodies the Bible, we get pithy advice and allegorical imagery to guide us away from self-defeating, life-denying attitudes and orient us towards creative self-overcoming (i.e. exertion of the Will to Power). The Last Man who no longer knows how to give birth to a dancing star is a rotten egg!

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0:21.0

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0:25.0

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0:27.0

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0:30.0

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0:32.0

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0:46.0

You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who had one point set on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it.

0:52.0

Our question for episode 2.13 is something like what is wisdom?

0:55.0

And we read the first two books of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spokes, Zara Thustra, originally published in 1883.

1:01.0

For more information and a link to the text, please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.

1:05.0

This is Mark Linson-Mire, coming to you in the morning zoo with my pals, Eagleman and the Snake in Madison, Wisconsin.

1:10.0

How are you practicing that one?

1:12.0

This is Seth Paskin, trying to understand if he's willing to truth or to power in Austin, Texas.

1:19.0

This is Wes Aulin, trying to be your best friend of me in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1:24.0

This is Dylan Casey dodging the Adder's Bite in Madison, Wisconsin.

1:29.0

At last, we have reached this text, which many would think we would have done years ago.

1:35.0

But for me, this was never the most straightforward or therefore enlightening of his texts.

1:41.0

There always seemed to be something else that was better to do within this one.

1:44.0

I had never read it, and it always wanted to, and then I wasn't sure that I did.

1:49.0

I feel exactly like Dylan.

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