13 - On Despisers of the Body, Part 1

Based on the translation by Graham Parkes - Alex discusses the Nietzschean view of language and reason, and how when humans believe too much in language and the categories of reason, we tend to mummify the living, moving reality we're trying to describe. An overemphasis on reason and language can lead to belief in Platonic/Christian "worlds we cannot know", and also worlds that are static. Nietzsche wants to correct this, and return understanding and reason to being tools of the body, rather than ends in themselves.

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13 - On Despisers of the Body, Part 1 is an episode from Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Reader's Guide by Alex Drake.

This episode is 00:40:28 long.

This episode was published on Aug 6, 2016.

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