Very interested to listen; besides Astral Codex Ten, you are the two substacks I subscribe to.
I appreciated your brief mention of Kierkegaard in your addendum and agree that it is a real tragedy that Nietzsche never got around to reading him. Nothing specific, really, but interested in any thoughts or perspectives on Søren that either of you see fit to discuss.
Very interested to listen; besides Astral Codex Ten, you are the two substacks I subscribe to.
I appreciated your brief mention of Kierkegaard in your addendum and agree that it is a real tragedy that Nietzsche never got around to reading him. Nothing specific, really, but interested in any thoughts or perspectives on Søren that either of you see fit to discuss.
Kierkegaard is great, it would be great to hear them sharing thoughts about him. Especially when it comes to religion as an socially organising force and a way to give meaning. Here's one of my favourite quotes from him:
I sat and smoked my cigar until I lapsed into thought … “You are going on,” I said to myself, “to become an old man, without being anything and without really undertaking to do anything. . . . [W]herever you look about you . . . you see the many benefactors of the age who know how to benefit mankind by making life easier and easier, some by railways, others by omnibuses and steamboats, others by the telegraph, others by easily apprehended compendiums and short recitals of everything worth knowing, and finally the true benefactors of the age who make spiritual existence in virtue of thought easier and easier, yet more and more significant. And what are you doing?” . . . [S]uddenly this thought flashed through my mind: “You must do something, but inasmuch as with your limited capacities it will be impossible to make anything easier than it has become, you must . . . undertake to make something harder.” This notion pleased me immensely. . . . I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.
Very interested to listen; besides Astral Codex Ten, you are the two substacks I subscribe to.
I appreciated your brief mention of Kierkegaard in your addendum and agree that it is a real tragedy that Nietzsche never got around to reading him. Nothing specific, really, but interested in any thoughts or perspectives on Søren that either of you see fit to discuss.
Kierkegaard is great, it would be great to hear them sharing thoughts about him. Especially when it comes to religion as an socially organising force and a way to give meaning. Here's one of my favourite quotes from him:
I sat and smoked my cigar until I lapsed into thought … “You are going on,” I said to myself, “to become an old man, without being anything and without really undertaking to do anything. . . . [W]herever you look about you . . . you see the many benefactors of the age who know how to benefit mankind by making life easier and easier, some by railways, others by omnibuses and steamboats, others by the telegraph, others by easily apprehended compendiums and short recitals of everything worth knowing, and finally the true benefactors of the age who make spiritual existence in virtue of thought easier and easier, yet more and more significant. And what are you doing?” . . . [S]uddenly this thought flashed through my mind: “You must do something, but inasmuch as with your limited capacities it will be impossible to make anything easier than it has become, you must . . . undertake to make something harder.” This notion pleased me immensely. . . . I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.
Maybe some reading this will like this lecture on him as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnSCT0zS3QA