Okay, now we're going to get into our discussion part of this episode.

Now after listening to to Allison and I you have a basic understanding of their philosophies

where they fit in history, etc.

Now we're going to pull out some threads, reflect on, criticize and discuss some of

these ideas and how they're connected with the rest of the world, with the rest of

modernity, etc.

And I think a good place to start is it's very clear to anybody who just listened to

the last part of this episode that Nietzsche follows in line with Schopenhauer.

So Schopenhauer opens up this idea of the will, Nietzsche takes it and runs with it.

But as with every sort of, you know, acolyte of a philosopher or a thinker or a psychologist

or a writer, whatever, there is a taking on board some of the things that the previous

person put on the table while rejecting others.

So with that in mind, how is Nietzsche expanding on and rejecting certain aspects of the

philosophy of Schopenhauer?

Yeah, so I think both of us in our summary touched a little bit on Nietzsche's affinity

for Schopenhauer, right?

So you talked a little bit about his experience of discovering Schopenhauer and throughout

his life, he kind of said that Schopenhauer was the only philosopher he ever respected.

So that should give you a sense of kind of his orientation towards Schopenhauer.

And he's definitely building on him.

Will exists in both of them.

But in Nietzsche, we see kind of almost a critique of the idea of the will to life or

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