Niklas Damiris on Money

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

Robert Harrison

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Niklas Damiris is a natural philosopher, trained in biophysics, who has of late taken a turn toward social theory to investigate money’s role in organizing human existence. He is adjunct professor at the University of Lugano in Switzerland, and a visiting scholar at Stanford, where he recently gave a course on the philosophy of money. […]

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0:00.0	This is KZSU, Stanford.
0:04.0	Welcome to entitled opinions.
0:06.8	My name is Robert Harrison,
0:08.8	and we're coming to you from the Stanford campus.
0:13.7	Ah, uh,
0:16.0	uh,
0:17.0	uh,
0:19.0	uh,
0:20.0	uh, Six score and seven years ago, the hour was high noon.
0:40.6	Nietzsche's madman went into the marketplace with a lantern in his hand
0:44.7	to announce the news that God is dead and that we, the citizens of the modern world, were responsible.
0:53.0	We have killed him, you and I.
0:55.6	We are all his murderers, he shouted.
0:58.8	The people fell silent and stared at him in astonishment.
1:03.3	Then they forgot all about him and carried on with business as usual.
1:08.2	Question.
1:09.7	Why did the madman go into the marketplace? Answer? Because that's where the
1:16.0	transvaluation takes place. That's where good and evil acquire their exchange value. That's where
1:22.9	faith, hope, and charity get translated into money. Behold, the transubstantiation of all values.
1:33.8	The Argente de la Guéry. Money makes war, Napoleon once said. It makes a whole lot more than
1:41.2	wars, though. It makes and unmakes and remakes just about everything these days.
1:47.2	That's why the madman went into the marketplace
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