Episode #212 ... Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective. (Amor Fati pt. 2)

hello everyone I'm Steven West this is philosophies this so I want to continue where we left off last episode which means you may need to listen to that one before this one so just fair warning I'm talking from here on out as though you've listened to it with little explanation it's called nche returns with a hammer now I want to talk more about this life affirming perspective that NCH is bringing up in his later work what would it look like if someone woke up in the morning and started their day from a place where they were affirming all aspects of life as they were rather than renouncing them rather than that overly rational overly idealistic way of living that just recreates a classic Christian renuncia of way of looking at the world that in his eyes is responsible for the decay of Western Society what would that world of Life affirmation look like and what would a morality structured around affirmation even be like I mean these are questions that really captivated n for a lot of his later career they're tough questions to answer too by the way and we'll get into what he had to say about them but first real quick if on this episode we're going to try to look at the world through this life affirming lens you know if you're trying to see things in a new way and if you're someone who's intrigued by the story n is telling of him smashing the idols from the history of Western thought with a hammer real quick can we just take a second to appreciate what Socrates looks like from n's perspective if he's right here I mean you know he doesn't like Socrates I get that but just think about who this guy really is if n is right think of his whole game he denies the whole dionan side of what reality is the chaos the passions the emergent context dependent side of reality and then he says no what we're going to do is we're going to steer hard into the Apollo side of this the rational and my little game we're going to play today is you can only use rationality but you got to try to nail down the absolute truth about everything in full give me the Essences of everything he says so then ...