
47: The Meaning of Life
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Consciousness of the Body
Zarathustra compares his own thoughts to birds. His conscious mind is just alittle roost for a bunch of thought birds to come and make their nests, and some of which are not even his. And so initha's losophy, the body is the lord, issuing commandments to the conscious mind. You know, that's your the conscious mind in its relationship to the body. A, you know, people who have faculties in life, or fa failings of the will, we might compare them to a defiant centre whose ego consciousness is compelling him to defy the natural order that issue from his lord, which should be his body. R and the body is a mystery to
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