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Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")

Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")

FromVery Bad Wizards


Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")

FromVery Bad Wizards

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Length:
102 minutes
Released:
May 12, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Socrates was ugly and tired of life, so he made a tyrant of reason. Philosophers are mummies who hate the body and the senses. Reason is a tricky old woman. Morality is a misunderstanding. Kant is a sneaky Christian. And don't even get Nietzsche started on "free will" or the "self" - just excuse for priests to punish people, a hangman's metaphysics. David and Tamler dive into Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols, a fascinating set of aphorisms brimming with passion, provocation, questions without answers.
Plus, a professor is sanctioned for sex talk with his students - fair or coddling foul?
Released:
May 12, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.