Glimpse: Nietzsche's Last Man (for Partially Examined Life #213)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 22 April 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Is technology making us complacent? Are we in danger of becoming Nietzsche's famed "last men" who are no longer capable of creativity and independent thought?
Mark Linsenmayer from the Partially Examined Life philosophy podcast lays out Nietzsche's idea and argues that on the contrary, having our basic needs met by technology can free us up to pursue the creative endeavors that Nietzsche saw as the pinnacle of human achievement
This is but a Glimpse. To hear the full Partial Examination of this book, visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, Marklund and Meyer from the partially examined life philosophy podcast here. |
| 0:04.8 | Are we getting too complacent? |
| 0:06.6 | Is it possible that the technologies we introduce to make us happy will actually become too |
| 0:11.3 | effective so that we stop striving and becoming actually human? |
| 0:15.8 | This was Friedrich Nietzsche's worry when he introduced his notion of the last man. |
| 0:20.2 | The work was thus spoke Zara Thustra from 1883, where Nietzsche has his avatars Zara Thustra |
| 0:26.4 | give a sermon. |
| 0:27.9 | Low, I show you the last man. |
| 0:31.0 | What is love? |
| 0:32.0 | What is creation? |
| 0:33.0 | What is longing? |
| 0:34.0 | What is a star? |
| 0:35.0 | So asks the last man and blinks. |
| 0:37.4 | We have discovered happiness, say the last man, and they blink. |
| 0:41.2 | They have left the regions where it is hard to live, they need warmth. |
| 0:44.3 | One still loves one's neighbor and rubs against him for one needs warmth. |
| 0:48.2 | People still quarrel, but are soon reconciled. |
| 0:50.3 | Otherwise it upsets their stomachs. |
| 0:52.1 | A little poison now and then that makes for pleasant dreams, and much poison at the end |
| 0:56.2 | for a pleasant death. |
| 0:58.2 | Everyone wants the same, everyone is the same, he who feels differently goes voluntarily |
| 1:01.8 | into the madhouse. |
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