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47: The Meaning of Life

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nita's Rebuke of the Stoics

Nicha: Our intelligence comes out of a blind, unintelligent world in which intelligence is not the rule, but the exception. According to nature, you want to live o you noble stoics. What deceptive words these are. Imagine indifference itself as a power. How could you live according to this? Indifference? Is that not precisely wanting to be other than this nature? And supposing your imperative, live according to nature meant at bottom as much as live according to life; how could you not do that? It's a very wonderful passage.

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