🔒 TSZ: Prologue 2

Subscriber-only episode Here we continue the reading and discussion of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra with section two of Part 1 of Zarathustra. The issue here is twofold. On the one hand there is the world that Zarathustra left behind when he absconded to the mountain to convalesce. On the other hand is what has happened in that world during the ten years he has been gone. Both of these issues speak to the meaning of nihilism as it first comes to sight in Zarathus...

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These are previews from my website AthensCorner.com of in-depth discussions on the Western world's greatest books in philosophy and political philosophy.  There are also occasional previews for my Fathers & Sons series on the website devoted to guiding and assisting fathers who themselves want to educate their sons in the great books, and so the emphasis is upon examples of excellence of virtue.