A new series of talks by David Runciman, in which he explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics – from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, from revolution to lock down. Plus, he talks about the crises – revolutions, wars, depressions, pandemics – that generated these new ways of political thinking. From the team that brought you Talking Politics: a history of ideas to help make sense of what’s happening today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nietzsche on Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece The Genealogy of Morality (1887) sets out to explain where ideas of good and evil come from and why they have left human beings worse off. He traces their origins in what he calls the slave revolt in morality. David examines the ways Nietzsche’s story unsettles almost everything about modern social conventions and leaves us with the troubling question: what can possibly come next?
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Going deeper:
- John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are (2018)
- Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche (2018)
- Alex Ross, 'Nietzsche's Eternal Return,' The New Yorker (2019)
- (Audio): In Our Time, 'Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality (2017)
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