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64: Nietzsche Contra Fascism

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's Theory of History Is Fatalistic and Cyclical

The reason why the state can't be the ends is that the state comes and goes. And the meaning of our lives, which in Nietzsche's view should be the betterment of mankind, right? Bring forth the overman. That's never served by these momentary political struggles. What does politics mean supposing it can no longer be this idealistic project to perfect the human race? We're going to talk about that next week when we dive into a monumental work from outside the traditionally delimited canon of Western philosophy.

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