Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One)
• Website: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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• Duration: 00:55:39
• Published: 2019-04-15 16:59

On Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, books 1 and 2 (1883).

What is wisdom? In this text whose style parodies the Bible, we get pithy advice and allegorical imagery to guide us away from self-defeating, life-denying attitudes and orient us towards creative self-overcoming (i.e. exertion of the Will to Power). The Last Man who no longer knows how to give birth to a dancing star is a rotten egg!

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