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Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two)

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A Thousand and One Goals, Will Te Power?

Zarathustra found no greater power on earth than good and evil. No people could live without first esteeming, but if they want to preserve themselves, not esteem as the neighbour esteems. Much that was good to one people was scorn and infamy to another. Never did one neighbor understand the other. Ever was his soul amazed at the neighbour's delusion and wickedness. A tablet of the good hangs over every people. Behold, it is the voice of their will to power. So this sounds like his version of the tower of babel.

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