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Untimely Reflections #19 - Alan Watts & Friedrich Nietzsche on Insecurity, with Mynaa Miesnowan

Untimely Reflections #19 - Alan Watts & Friedrich Nietzsche on Insecurity, with Mynaa Miesnowan

FromThe Nietzsche Podcast


Untimely Reflections #19 - Alan Watts & Friedrich Nietzsche on Insecurity, with Mynaa Miesnowan

FromThe Nietzsche Podcast

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Length:
116 minutes
Released:
Feb 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Join me, and my friend Mynaa Miesnowan, for a discussion inspired by the work of Alan Watts, and his "Wisdom of Insecurity". We compare Watts' own approach to the insecurity of life to that of Nietzsche's, and generally analyze Watts' ideas from a Nietzschean framework. Ultimately, we diverge wildly from the topics covered in Watts' work, and the starting topic is really more a guidepost for the various directions that our thought takes us. However, contained in this are a couple of fun and fascinating looks at the contrast between Watts and Nietzsche, as regards their thought on leisure v/s productivity, and sobreity v/s intoxication. We also touch upon the critiques both men made of language, and the metaphysical assumptions of our society in its materialistic atomism, and how the human perspective inevitably delimits the boundaries of thought. 
Released:
Feb 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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A podcast about Nietzsche's ideas, his influences, and those he influenced. Philosophy and cultural commentary through a Nietzschean lens. Support the show at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections A few collected essays and thoughts: https://untimely-reflections.blogspot.com/