In Our Time: Philosophy cover image

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality

In Our Time: Philosophy

CHAPTER

The Relationship Between Nietzsche and the Ascetic Ideal

I didn't think we had enough time to cover some of the things we glossed over. That's an immensely complex topic. I was not really interested. Fiona did briefly touch on it under the heading of truth, but precisely because Nietzsche is seeking truth about morality and about the ascetic ideal more generally he has to recognize that he's coming out of an ascetic profile. He does have to acknowledge a certain kind of indebtedness to the very phenomenon that he's engaging in this polemical critique. It's very easy to read him as just a kind of uniformly harsh critic of the phenomena, but he has an amazing amount of respect in certain ways for what? Slave morality and the

00:00
Transcript
Play full episode

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts

Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.
App store bannerPlay store banner