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PREMIUM-Episode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism
PREMIUM-Episode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism
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31 minutes
Released:
Aug 15, 2012
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Podcast episode
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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
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