Zarathustra

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Zarathustra is meant to be a parody or satire of religious scripture, but not the scripture of any particular religion. Zarathustra is obviously meant to somehow stand in for nitha's views. He talks about views that are familiar from other works. It seems to me that the exercise is to show that if you try to institutionalize the values nita you to invent. And the values he's inventing, if you try to make in the way that a religion institutionalizes values, the result will be completely perverse. They'll be turned upside down and inside out. So this seems interesting to me as i set up a problem to solve in zarathust

What can studying the lives of philosophers tell us about how to organize and interpret our own lives? Elijah Millgram is a professor of philosophy at the University of Utah whose research focuses on the theory of rationality. His latest book, John Stuart Mill and The Meaning of Life, analyzes the relationship between the ideas of the famous theorist and their impacts on Mill’s life. His forthcoming book examines the life and work of Frederich Nietzsche through a similar lens, combining philosophical analysis and biography.

Elijah joined Tyler to discuss Newcomb’s paradox, the reason he doesn’t have an opinion about everything, the philosophy of Dave Barry, style and simulation theory, why philosophers aren’t often consulted about current events, his best stories from TA-ing for Robert Nozick, the sociological correlates of knowing formal logic, the question of whether people are more interested in truth or being interesting, philosophical cycles, what makes Nietzsche important today, the role that meaning can play in a person’s personality and life, Mill on Bentham, the idea of true philosophy as dialogue, the extent to which modern philosophers are truly philosophical, why he views aesthetics as critical to philosophy, and more.

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Recorded May 11th, 2021 Other ways to connect

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