
Glimpse: Nietzsche's Last Man (for Partially Examined Life #213)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Are We Getting Too Complasant?
Is it possible that the technologies we introduce to make us happy will actually become too affect so that we stop striving and becoming actually human? This was friedrich nich's worry when he introduced his notion of the last man. In Aldous huxley's novel, brave new world for 19 32, social engineers have figured out what makes people happy and constructed a society where this can be fulfilled virtually all the time. Nita wanted individuals to thrive, and much of his philosophy consisted in picking out the intellectual trends and other social forces that hold us down. It would be a mistake to see him as having an ethic of selfishness or of not being compassionate. thriving is great if you can
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