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142: Commands, Symbols & Games - Nietzsche, Cassirer & Wittgenstein on Language

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141: Ernst Cassirer - Language & Myth

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140: Anti-Schmitt

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Untimely Reflections #45: Nick Nielsen - Philosophy of History

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Untimely Reflections #44: Christopher Satoor (The Young Idealist) - Friedrich Schelling

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139: Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations, pt 2

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138: Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations, part 1

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Untimely Reflections #43: Joe Folley (Unsolicited Advice) - Camus & Absurdism

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Q&A #14

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137: Philosopher as Spectator

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136: Pyrrho - Ancient Skepticism

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Untimely Reflections #42: Devin Goure - Star Trek & Philosophy

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135: Hume v/s Nietzsche - On Causality, Free Will & Habit

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134: David Hume - Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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Untimely Reflections #41: Gnostic Informant - The History of Demons

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Untimely Reflections #40: Hans Georg Moeller - Zhuangzi & Nietzsche

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133: Baruch Spinoza - The Intellectual Love of God

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132: Daemonic, part 3 - Stefan Zweig & Nietzsche's Struggle with the Daemon

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131: Daemonic, part 2 - Herder's Substantial Forces & Goethe's Flame of Genius

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130: Daemonic, part 1 - Ancient Spirits & The Pantheism Controversy

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129: Ge Ling Shang - Liberation as Affirmation

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128: Zhuangzi - Free & Easy Wandering

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New Year's Announcement

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Christmas Special 2025

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127: Where is the Dao?

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126: The Sorrows of Young Werther

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Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin #1 : Imperiopathosis & the Political Stress Index

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Untimely Reflections #39: Weltgeist - Schopenhauer on History, Love, Life & Death

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125: Reviewing John Kaag's Hiking with Nietzsche

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Untimely Reflections #38: Jimmy Burke - Will to Joy

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124: Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, pt 3 - The Most Beautiful Inventions of the Sick

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123: Rust Cohle & The Flat Circle - Philosophy of True Detective

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Confucius: On Name & Actuality

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122: Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, pt 2 - The Conspiracy of the Vicious Circle

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121: Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, pt 1: The Semiotic of Impulses

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Q&A #13

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The Gay Science #20 (IV.328-342)

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The Gay Science #19 (IV.311-327)

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The Gay Science #18 (IV.299-310)

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The Gay Science #17 (IV.289-298)

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Untimely Reflections #37: PF Jung - Enlightened Centrism

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The Gay Science #16 (IV.276-288)

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120: Erich Heller, The Disinherited Mind, pt 2 - Burckhardt, Nietzsche & History

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119: Erich Heller, The Disinherited Mind, pt 1 - Goethe, Schiller & The Symbol

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Q&A #12

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118: Max Horkheimer & Theodore Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 2

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117: Max Horkheimer & Theodore Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 1

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Special Episode: Nietzsche Podcast Reading Guide

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116: Nietzsche’s Inaugural Address - Homer & Classical Philology

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Untimely Reflections #36: Tony of 1Dime - The Neoliberal Zeitgeist

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115: Martin Heidegger, pt 3 - Will to Power as Knowledge & Metaphysics

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114: Martin Heidegger, pt 2 - The Will to Power as Art

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113: Martin Heidegger, part 1 - On Nietzsche & Dasein

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Untimely Reflections #35: Uberboyo - Politics as Neuro-Physiology

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Response to Philosophy Tube

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Wandering Above a Sea of Fog #4

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The Gay Science #15 (III.176-III.275)

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The Gay Science #14 (III.148-III.175)

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The Gay Science #13 (III.132 - III.147)

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The Gay Science #12 (III.125-III.131)

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Untimely Reflections #34: Gnostic Informant

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The Gay Science #11 (III.114-III.124)

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The Gay Science #10 (III.108-III.113)

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Reaction to Jordan Peterson on Lex Fridman

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112: Leo Tolstoy - "What is Art?"

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111: Protagoras, The Sophists & The Art of Rhetoric

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Nietzsche's Five Nos

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Untimely Reflections #33: Craig (Acid Horizon) - Deleuze's Anti-Oedipus & Lynch's Eraserhead

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110: Nietzsche Contra Peterson - Yes, We Can Create Values

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109: Carl Jung - Psychology & Alchemy, part 2

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108: Carl Jung - Psychology & Alchemy, part 1

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Untimely Reflections #32: Dr. Gregory Sadler - On Stoicism & Philosophy as a Guide to Life

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107: Søren Kierkegaard - Fear & Trembling

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106: Emil Cioran - On the Heights of Despair

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Love Never Faileth (Redux)

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Anti-Christmas Special

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The Gay Science #9 (II.98-II.107)

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The Gay Science #8 (II.84 - II.97)

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Q&A #11

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The Gay Science #7 (II.76-II.83)

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All Hallow's Special - Robert Chambers' Repairer of Reputations, featuring Mynaa

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105: Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan

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The Gay Science #6 (II.57-75)

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104: Donna Tartt - The Secret History

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103: Euripedes - The Bacchae

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102: Michel Foucault - Madness & Civilization

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101: Aeschylus - The Oresteia

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100: Peter Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle

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99: Carl Jung - The Undiscovered Self

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98: Yukio Mishima - Sun & Steel

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97: Sophocles - Oedipus Rex & Oedipus at Colonus

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The Gay Science #5 (I.45 - I.56)

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The Gay Science #4 (I.30 -I.44)

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The Gay Science #3 (I.21 - I.29)

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The Gay Science #2 (I.10 - I.20)

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The Gay Science #1 (Preface, I.1 - I.9)

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Q&A #10

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Wandering Above A Sea of Fog #3

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96: Nietzsche as Educator

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95: The Journey to Hades

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94: Nietzsche Reviews His Own Books

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93: The Idle Hours of a Psychologist

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92: The Four Great Errors

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Q&A #9

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Untimely Reflections #31: Quinn Williams - On Deleuze, and Methods of Interpretation

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91: Carl Jung - Nietzsche on the Couch

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90: Carl Jung - Archetypes & The Collective Unconscious

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Untimely Reflections #30: Weltgeist - Aesthetics of Schopenhauer & Nietzsche

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Untimely Reflections #29: Daniel Tutt - Boxing with Nietzsche

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Untimely Reflections #28: Stephen Hicks - Is Nietzsche a Postmodernist?

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89: Sigmund Freud - Sublimations, Dreams & Repressions

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88: René Girard - The Case for the Crucified

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87: Science and Wisdom in Battle

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86: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks pt 2 - Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus

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85: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, pt. 1 - Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus

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Q&A #8

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84: Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe

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83: Baruch Spinoza’s Geometric Faith

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ANNOUNCEMENT.

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82: Blaise Pascal’s Faithful Calculations

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81: Michel de Montaigne - “What Do I Know?”

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Untimely Reflections #27: Devin Goure & the Nietzschean Left

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80: Gilles Deleuze, pt. 2: Becoming-Active

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The Dionysmas Special

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79: Gilles Deleuze, pt. 1: Against the Dialectic

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Untimely Reflections #26: Andrei Georgescu (Artiexus) - Seedless Flowers & Materialist Theories of Creativity

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78: Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic

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77: Robert Pirsig’s Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Untimely Reflections #25 - William Kaiser: AI Optimism

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76: Nietzsche’s Apology

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75: Socrates’ Apology

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74: Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit (As Seen in the Life of Nietzsche)

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All Hallow’s Special: Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl

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73: The Power to Forget

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Wandering Above A Sea of Fog #2

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Beyond Good and Evil #15: Conclusion - Struggle Against Platonism (IX.268 - IX.296)

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Beyond Good and Evil #14: The Essence of Life (IX.257 - IX.267)

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Beyond Good and Evil #13: Fatherlandishness (VIII.240 - VIII.256)

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Beyond Good and Evil #12 (Featuring Vivienne Magdalen): Women (VII.231 - VII.239)

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Nietzsche at the Movies: Barbenheimer

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Beyond Good and Evil #11: Immoralist Virtue Ethics (VII.214 - VII.230)

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Beyond Good and Evil #10: We Scholars (VI.204 - VI.213)

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Beyond Good and Evil #9: Morality as Timidity (V.197 - V.203)

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Q&A #7

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Beyond Good and Evil #8: Morality is a Tyrannical Impulse (V.186 - V.196)

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Beyond Good and Evil #7: Interlude (IV.63-IV.185)

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Beyond Good and Evil #6: Self-Denial as Power (III.47-III.62)

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Beyond Good and Evil #5: The Great Hunt (II.38 - III.46)

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Untimely Reflections #24: Karl Nord on James Burnham - His Life, His Thought & The Machiavellians

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Beyond Good and Evil #4: The Esoteric (II.26 - II.37)

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Beyond Good and Evil #3: One Ruling Thought (I.17 - II.25)

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Untimely Reflections #23: John Hunt - Horror & Realism

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Beyond Good and Evil #2: Involuntary, Unconscious Memoir (I.6-I.16)

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Beyond Good and Evil #1: Faith in Opposite Values (Preface & I.1-I.5)

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Wandering Above A Sea of Fog #1

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72: Philosophers of the Future

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71: The History of European Nihilism

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70: War!

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69: The Return to Nature

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Untimely Reflections #22 - Jeff Henson - There Are No Rules

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68: Robert Michels - The Iron Law of Oligarchy

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Untimely Reflections #21 - Mark LeVine: Heavy Metal Islam & Nietzsche's Influence on Critical Theory

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67: Michael Parenti - The Assassination of Julius Caesar

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Q&A #6

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66: Peter Turchin - Why Empires Rise & Fall

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65: Ibn Khaldun - The Muqaddimah

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The Ever-Living Fire: Explained

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64: Nietzsche Contra Fascism

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Untimely Reflections #20: Uberboyo - The Promethean West

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63: Nietzsche Contra Socialism

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Nietzsche Podcast Special Update

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Untimely Reflections #19 - Alan Watts & Friedrich Nietzsche on Insecurity, with Mynaa Miesnowan

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62: Nietzsche Contra Capitalism

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61: A Glance At The State

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60: Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace

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Untimely Reflections #18 - Quinn Williams - The Time-Atom Fragment

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59: Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Nietzsche’s Mirror Image

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The Nietzsche Podcast Christmas Special

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58: Machiavelli - The Prince

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57: Machiavelli - Discourses on Livy

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56: Nietzsche's Contest

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55: Epicurus

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54: Thucydides - The Cure for Plato

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53: Politics of Plato's Republic

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52: On Theognis of Megara - Nietzsche's Dissertation

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51: Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City, part 2: Conflict of the Orders

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All Hallow's Special - H.P. Lovecast with Mynaa Miesnowan

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50: Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City, part 1: Sacred Fire, Sacred Dead

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49: The Sipo Matador

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Q&A #5

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Birth of Tragedy #8: 22-25 (Conclusion)

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Birth of Tragedy #7: 18-21 (Alexandrianism)

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Birth of Tragedy #6: 14-17 (The Theoretic v/s the Tragic)

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Birth of Tragedy #5: 11-13 (Euripedes & The Death of Tragedy)

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Birth of Tragedy #4: 8-10 (Evolution of the Satyr Chorus & Suffering Hero)

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Birth of Tragedy #3: 4-7 ("Objective" v/s "Subjective" Art)

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Birth of Tragedy #2: 1-3 (The Two Art-Forces)

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Birth of Tragedy #1: Attempt At Self-Criticism/Preface to Wagner

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Untimely Reflections #17 - Trialogue with Andrei Georgescu & Karl Nord

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48: At Noon

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47: The Meaning of Life

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Q&A #4

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46: The World as Will to Power… And Nothing Besides! (Democritus & Boscovich)

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45: Descent Into Materialism (Friedrich Albert Lange & The Pre-Platonics)

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44: Cartesian Dualism

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43: Nihilism

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42: Goethe's Faust, part 2

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41: Goethe's Faust, part 1

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40: Ralph Waldo Emerson & The Children of The Fire

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Untimely Reflections #16: At the Movies! - Demolition Man, featuring Amberly

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Untimely Reflections #15: William Kaiser - Language, Memory & Psychoanalysis

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39: The Genius of the Heart

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38: The Genius of the Species

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37: Richard Wagner, part 2: Nietzsche Contra Wagner

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Q&A Episode #3

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36: Richard Wagner, part 1: Bayreuth Horizon Observations

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35: The Spirit of Music

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34: Self-Control

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33: The Overman, part 2: The Convalescent

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32: The Overman, part 1: Arrows of Longing

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31: Creators and Self-Legislators (III: The Philosopher)

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30: Chemistry of Feelings (II: The Artist)

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29: Too Good For This World (I: The Saint)

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Untimely Reflections #13: Andrei Georgescu - Stomaching Complexity

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28: Plato's Symposium, part 2: The Loveable Socrates

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27: Plato's Symposium, part 1: The Power of Love

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Untimely Reflections #12: Karl Nord - The Blessed Providence of Our Clownfather

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26: Eternal Return, part 2: Bite! Bite!

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Untimely Reflections #11: Kevin Rogers - Zen is Philosophy, Zen is not Philosophy

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25: Eternal Return, part 1: The Toughest Challenge

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Q&A Episode #2

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Untimely Reflections #10: Gabriel Martínez - Antinatalism & Pessimism

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Untimely Reflections #9 - Mynaa Miesnowan & Keegan chat at Sagebrush

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24: The Tragedy Begins

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23: The Antichrist, part 2: An Instinctual Hatred of Reality

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22: The Antichrist, part 1: An Attempt at the Revaluation of Values

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Untimely Reflections #8: Hans-Georg Moeller (Carefree Wandering) - Profilicity & Erscheinung

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21: A Pessimism of Strength - Dionysus v/s The Crucified

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Untimely Reflections #7: Paul Katsafanas - Nietzschean Constitutivism

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20: Schopenhauer as Educator

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Untimely Reflections #6: Greg from Into the Absurd - Death & God

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19: Arthur Schopenhauer, part 2: The Great Pessimist

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18: Arthur Schopenhauer, part I: Will & Representation

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Untimely Reflections #5: Matt Keck - Archotropism, Fragility, and the Elite Morality

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17: All Hallow’s Special!

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16: The Congenital Defect of All Philosophers

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Untimely Reflections #4: At the Movies! Reviewing, “When Nietzsche Wept” (2007) Featuring, my wife.

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Untimely Reflections #3: Karl Nord - On the Use and Abuse of Nietzsche for Randian Aesthetics

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15: On the Use and Abuse of History for Life

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Q&A Episode #1

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14: Our Virtues as Will to Power (And Nothing Besides!)

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13: Francois de La Rochefoucauld’s Immoral Maxims

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Untimely Reflections #2: Matt Hazelwood - The Technocratic Revolution

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12: The Horse-Hugging That Never Happened (And 7 Other Nietzsche Myths)

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11: Master & Slave Morality

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10: "Free Will" & The Myth of Moral Responsibility

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Untimely Reflections #1: Mynaa Miesnowan - Art, Politics, and Religion

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9: The Wisdom of the Body

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8: Truth is a Woman & Loves Only a Warrior

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7: Nietzsche V/S Socrates

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6: Weakness Corrupts

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5: Heraclitus & The Pre-Platonic Philosophers

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4: Love Never Faileth

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3: “God is Dead!"

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2: Wandering Through Ice & Mountain Peaks

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1: How the True World Finally Became a Fable

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