Episode 5| Zarathustra Prologue Sections 9 and 10| Friendship, Revaluation and Reason vs. Desire
In the fifth episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he is reading and discussing the ninth and tenth sections of the prologue in Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
The episode discusses Nietzsche's view of friendship and companionship, revaluation and challenging our ideas, newness and creation and the role of reason and desire which is represented through the eagle and the serpent. This is related to Nietzsche's earlier discussion of Ancient Greek Gods Apollo and Dionysus in his first book the Birth of Tragedy
Examples are discussed from the history of medicine to illustrate the necessity of changing our idea of what is thought is good for us and a brief discussion of Apollo and Dionysus' relationship. This dynamic is more closely looked at through the characters of Deckard and Rachel in Blade Runner.
If you would like to follow along we are using the Penguin edition translated by R. J. Hollingdale.
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