Is God Dead? Making Sense of Nietzsche with Dr. Khalil Habib
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
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🗓️ 9 October 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
“God is dead.” What is there to say about such a provocative statement from one of the most provocative thinkers of the last two centuries? Turns out—a lot. Charlie sits down with Dr. Khalil Habib, a political philosophy professor from Hillsdale College, to unpack the profound, and oftentimes misunderstood legacy of the German philosopher who has the distinction of being an influence on the politics of both the right and the left—for better or worse. This conversation offers a deep and thoughtful defense of the West and the existential crisis it faces in today’s day and age.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, happy Saturday. You know what Saturday means. We dive deep into ideas. |
| 0:04.8 | While other podcasts just talk about right versus left, then Republican, good, Democrat, |
| 0:08.3 | bad, let's get into the ideas. Is God dead? That's a very important question. That might be something |
| 0:14.0 | that might be mildly offensive to you. But that's a really interesting question. Friedrich Nietzsche, |
| 0:20.1 | who was German, wrote in Beyond good and evil and in many other places that the West was falling apart. |
| 0:28.5 | A lot of what we are living through right now is downstream from Nietzsche. He was right about a lot. He was dreadfully wrong about a lot. I talk with Dr. Khalil Habib from Hillsdale |
| 0:41.0 | College about the existential crisis facing the West. This is a thoughtful conversation that you might |
| 0:47.3 | want to listen to once or twice or three times. And it's all made possible thanks to the beacon of |
| 0:51.9 | the north Hillsdale College. I was just in Hillsdale, Michigan, broadcasting live from Hillsdale College. |
| 0:58.0 | And I could tell you, this college is unlike anything I've ever seen before. |
| 1:01.3 | The students were all incredibly wise, polite, magnanimous, curious, willing to discuss big ideas. |
| 1:10.7 | I sat in on Dr. Larry Arns, Aristotle course, and I learned more |
| 1:14.0 | in one hour of Dr. Larry Arns Hillsdale course than I think I learned in my entire four years in high |
| 1:20.2 | school. Good teachers matter and good ideas matter. Hillsdale College is all about preserving the |
| 1:26.1 | American idea, preserving the American nation, defending truth, and it's what college is meant to be. |
| 1:33.7 | Life, freedom, and liberty. They take no government money, everybody. They've been pursuing truth since 1844. No government money, not one penny. |
| 1:43.0 | So a lot of the alma maters that maybe you support they probably |
| 1:46.9 | take government money hillsdale zero and i personally take their online courses their online courses |
| 1:53.6 | are exceptional in the online courses you are able to dive deep into these ideas get a better |
| 1:59.8 | understanding of where we come from, who we |
| 2:02.3 | are as human beings, what is our country, what is the proper way to govern people? Here are the |
| 2:08.4 | courses I have completed. Introduction of Western philosophy. In there, we dove into Nietzsche, |
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