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Q&A #6

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's Putting the Body Over the Mind

The niche's position would be that blaming someone like Voltaire or Rousseau for the French Revolution is very silly. It raises a serious question as to what exactly Nietzsche's doing when he's writing philosophy why is he putting the body over the mind? He has this condition where he's got stomach problems all his life and he's throwing up and he's got terrible eyesight you know the light hurts his eyes it's like he's the most un-physically fit person you could imagine. But in so many ways he's trying to like resurrect the Greek spirit right so is he trying to resurrect the notion that what he himself does is useless knowledge?"

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