Episode #213 ... Deleuze Interprets Nietzsche (Difference, Joy, Affirmation)

hello everyone I'm Steven West this is philosophies this so This episode's building off the last two episodes on n and affirming life as it is and if you're someone that hears what n has to say and goes wow wow Checkmate philosophy I mean this guy Frederick just destroyed all of you go grab your herd membership cards get together find a place to Moo at each other in a field for the rest of your lives and let the cultural Elites like Frederick take over from now on well if that's how you're feeling then unfortunately G to be a very short-lived party for you but that's a good thing I think ultimately I mean you could probably see it coming like if you're n and you say the kind of things we've been talking about dunking on the entire history of philosophy even if you're right about some of these things you're just unleashing the hounds on yourself when you talk like this future philosophers are going to come after you and when they do they're going to be very smart and find where you made all your mistakes which n no doubt would have appreciated by the way but the point is there are a ton of people disagreeing with him even just a few years after his work one of which we talked about last time was Martin haiger you know the heiger despite n seeing himself as someone that despised Plato's work as someone that move beyond the metaphysics of the ideal versus the real to haiger n in his work had really just created the inversion of platonism where he makes the same kind of mistake that Plato does and needlessly favors the real over the ideal I mean to higer whenever n brings up the concept of the will to power in his work by doing that he's embedding himself in the same metaphysical tradition that he was claiming to try to to move past he was still operating on the Assumption in other words that being itself always needs to be viewed from the dualistic perspective of being a subject that's navigating a realm of objects and it's building on this that heiger comes up with what would eventually become a highly important question in his own work definitely with n in mind the question is is it possible to think ...