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PREMIUM-Episode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism

PREMIUM-Episode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism

FromThe Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast


PREMIUM-Episode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism

FromThe Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Aug 15, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On Friedrich Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" (1873). What is truth? This essay, written early in Nietzsche's career, is taken by many to make the extreme claim that there is no truth, that all of the "truths" we tell each other are just agreements by social convention. WIth guest Jessica Berry, who argues that that Nietzsche is a skeptic: our "truths" don't correspond with the world beyond our human conceptions; all knowledge is laden with human interests. Get the full discussion at partiallyexaminedlife.com.
Released:
Aug 15, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com.