Stephen Hicks on The Nietzsche Podcast

Keegan Kjeldsen at Untimely Reflections spent an hour with Dr. Stephen Hicks. The conversation started with Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil". It moved on to a discussion of the difference between Nietzsche's view of power and that of the postmodernists.

Some time is spent discussing the differences between Nietzsche and Ayn Rand on individualism, ethics and truth. It concludes with an assessment of modern academia.

The Nietzsche Podcast can be found at:    / @untimelyreflections  

Timestamps
00:28 Introduction and Dr. Hicks's background
01:51 Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter 1
06:58 A link to the Psychoanalytic School
10:15 Postmodernism, Nietzsche, relativism and power
19:32 Nietzsche's critique and the search for truth in the modern world
26:19 Are humans committed to finding truth or to winning arguments?
28:00 How do we maintain our commitment to truth in a social context?
33:35 The subjectivists argue the commitment to truth is impossible
34:06 Ayn Rand vs. Nietzsche on epistemology and values
38:06 Is Nietzsche anti-individualist, non-individualist?
38:29 What do we mean by individualism?
40:11 Nietzsche does celebrate some individuals
40:45 But how many individuals should we celebrate?
42:18 What makes that individual special?
44:46 What makes this individual special for the future?
47:25 Should we benefit from differences with others?
49:13 Are we born on a preset path?
51:28 If we are this different does this make a value difference?
54:30 Where do you see the postmodernism vs. modernism question today?


Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

Other links:

Explaining Postmodernism audiobook:    • Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks:...  
Nietzsche and the Nazis audiobook:    • Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen R. C. H...  

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