E17 - Progress By A Thousand Thoughts: The Philosophy of Nietzsche & The Lust for Life

In this episode we are excited to have on Keegan Kjeldsen, a touring doom metal musician and host of The Nietzsche Podcast. We open the episode explaining why we sought out Keegan for an interview, and then Alvin gives a quick history of Nietzsche's life. If you're more familiar with Nietzsche and would like to skip straight to the interview, that starts around minute 22:00 in the audio feed. We discuss with Keegan how he ended up hosting a podcast devoted to Friedrich Nietzsche, how philosophy applies to the real world and why we should pay attention to philosophical writing, Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence and how that might lead one to celebrate and embrace life, the possible connection of the reevaluation of values and changes that occur in the midlife, how Nietzsche's quote: What does not kill me makes me stronger might inform our view of the potential fragility of gen z, and what books of Nietzsche's you might look at first if you're interested in exploring any of these topics further. Finally, we end with our Real or Fake segment, in which Keegan and Alvin have to guess whether a philosophy paper is real or an article from The Onion.   Email: [email protected]  Twitter: @midlifepod2023 The Nietzsche Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nietzsche-podcast/id1573808070 Keegan's Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections Keegan's book pre-order ("The Ritual Madness of Rock & Roll"): https://www.blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/theritualmadnessofrockandroll