Welcome to the preview of Partially Examined Life Episode 263 Part 2, a groundbreaking episode

the first one without, Wes or myself on it.

But I've listened to it multiple times and it's good.

This preview comes right from the beginning of Part 2 and features Jeff Black, the first

voice you'll hear here, from that combat and classics podcast which you should check

out, as well as Michael Grenke who wrote the forward to the book they're discussing

least fan-boxels, or speak.

Which should remind you as largely a commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals.

So I took Seth's question to be something like, given the prominent role that a contribution

of women and especially seducer women, excellent women, makes in Chapter 6, why is it that

it seems like that contribution is not as strong in Chapter 7?

And there's a place to look, I think, just to see what Lee says about the contribution

and I think it's a good example of how compressed this book is and how interesting it gets, I

think, when you unfold it a little bit.

So if you have a look on page 186, there's a long paragraph that begins with women and

about halfway through, Lee's writes this, by elucidating and celebrating generation.

Nietzsche aims to return the feminine principle of becoming to its rightful role in a fecund,

mechanistic relationship with the masculine principle of being.

Although he is relatively silent about the woman, therefore, the feminine principle permeates

his philosophy because he incorporates the feminine.

It is the very air that elevates the airborne psyche and in which the spirit articulates

its movements.

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