Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Concluding Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885).
What's the wise way to live? We start in earnest into part three, treating the "spirit of gravity" where socially-imposed values cover over your uniqueness, omni-satisfaction vs. being choosy, "Old and New Tablets" where Nietzsche explores various ethical and meta-ethical issues (e.g. is self-overcoming a matter of one-time self-actualization or is it continual?), and more on the Overman and eternal recurrence.
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End song: "Upright Man" by Rachel Taylor Brown, as interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music #91.
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| 0:00.0 | The partial examine life depends on your support. |
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| 0:07.5 | slash support. |
| 0:09.0 | Here are the things that partially examine life, episode 214, part 2, concluding our |
| 0:20.8 | treatment of the spoke that our Sustra, so we've introduced eternal recurrence and |
| 0:26.5 | his poetic style. |
| 0:27.5 | So Wes, why don't you take us to where you actually wanted us to start? |
| 0:31.2 | What's the spirit of gravity section? |
| 0:32.5 | Is that where you want to? |
| 0:33.5 | Yeah, so I think section 2 of the on the spirit of gravity. |
| 0:38.7 | What's interesting about this section is it's a section where Nietzsche will suggest that |
| 0:42.9 | we replace love of neighbor with love of oneself, which he sees as a kind of grounding |
| 0:49.5 | of moving from the concept of a good and evil for everyone, which is the spirit of gravity |
| 0:56.1 | that is the thing that dwarf says, the thing that the dwarf utters to you is that there's |
| 1:00.4 | a universal good and evil for all human beings to one's own particular set of the spoke |
| 1:07.4 | values that are designed for oneself, according to one's own taste. |
| 1:12.5 | Taste is the word that he uses at the end of this section. |
| 1:16.0 | The idea in section 2 is that he's the way he puts it, but whoever would become light |
| 1:21.0 | and a bird must love himself, thus I teach. |
| 1:25.1 | And here becoming a bird means to sort of escape from being weighed down by a system of |
| 1:33.1 | transcendent values like Christian or ascetic values, things like that. |
| 1:38.8 | So one must learn to love oneself, thus I teach with a wholesome and healthy love so |
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