The Wes Cecil Podcast

Wes Cecil

My lectures are dedicated to making Philosophy in particular and the world of ideas in general available to everyone. My exploration of topics and thinkers is designed to provide a foundation for listeners to engage in further reading and thought and develop their own conceptions of the topics I introduce. I have PhD in Literature and Philosophy and was a college professor for over 20 years. I am working to remove the barriers that prevent many from experiencing and understanding the lives and thoughts of some of the world's greatest thinkers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  1. Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 1

    EPISODE 1

    Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 1

    This read along series presents one of Nietzsche’s most important and confusing works. Written after Thus Spake Zarathustra, it continues to develop some of his central themes and attempts to reground Ethics in a completely new fashion. Sign-up for Wes’s PATREON to get your questions answered by Wes! Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    15 min
  2. Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 2

    EPISODE 2

    Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 2

    Wow, Nietzsche rolls out all the rhetorical cannons to open Beyond Good and Evil. He attempts to undercut both the history and focus of Western philosophy and introduce a new basis of thinking based on a different approach to understanding the human. Sign-up for Wes’s PATREON to get your questions answered by Wes! Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    39 min
  3. Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 3

    EPISODE 3

    Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 3

    Having attacked most western philosophy, Nietzsche presents one of his core arguments - that all these claims to universal truth and discovery are simply a self-serving pose on the part of philosophers. Understanding his argument fundamentally alters the way we think not just about philosophy, but the construction of our understanding of the world itself. Sign-up for Wes’s PATREON to get your questions answered by Wes! Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26 min
  4. Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 4

    EPISODE 4

    Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 4

    Nietzsche rejects Sensualism, Materialism, Metaphysics and any simple understanding of Science with his core concern - an Ethics built on Joy and Vigour derived from a Will to Power that he sees in all life. It is not error he is against, but error that leads to sleepiness. Nietzsche wants a philosophy that wakes us up. Sign-up for Wes’s PATREON to get your questions answered by Wes! Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    32 min
  5. Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 5

    EPISODE 5

    Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 5

    So much for Free Will. Herein Nietzsche attacks the whole question of Free Will - not taking a side but simply pointing out the meaninglessness of most of the conversations surrounding free will. Sign-up for Wes’s PATREON to get your questions answered by Wes! Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    31 min
  6. Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 6

    EPISODE 6

    Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 6

    So now Nietzsche wants to point out how systematically our cultures and grammar influence our capacity to think philosophically - further undermining the notion of Philosophy as an arbiter of transcendent truth. Then, in chapter 21, he decides to attack cause and effect, number, law, relativity and many other concepts we like to think help us think but which Nietzsche considers just so much mythologizing. Sign-up for Wes’s PATREON to get your questions answered by Wes! Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26 min
  7. Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 7

    EPISODE 7

    Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 7

    Nietzsche emphasizes the difficulties we will encounter as we attempt to abandon morals and see the world as it is -free from natural laws and order and subject only to the interplay of power. If nothing else, you can’t say we haven’t been warned. Sign-up for Wes’s PATREON to get your questions answered by Wes! Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    20 min
  8. Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 8

    EPISODE 8

    Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 8

    Chapter II presents a different direction for Nietzsche to attack contemporary philosophical modes by emphasizing how the obsession with TRUTH has warped the outlook of most philosophers and led them to make dubious arguments but, more importantly for Nietzsche, to play-act as martyrs. Sign-up for Wes’s PATREON to get your questions answered by Wes! Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    35 min
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About

My lectures are dedicated to making Philosophy in particular and the world of ideas in general available to everyone. My exploration of topics and thinkers is designed to provide a foundation for listeners to engage in further reading and thought and develop their own conceptions of the topics I introduce. I have PhD in Literature and Philosophy and was a college professor for over 20 years. I am working to remove the barriers that prevent many from experiencing and understanding the lives and thoughts of some of the world's greatest thinkers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Wes Cecil
  • Episodes
    185
  • Seasons
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Wes Cecil
  • Show Website
    The Wes Cecil Podcast

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