Philosophy Series: Nietzsche and the Death of God

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

Breht listens to, reflects on, and critically engages with a public lecture by the late philosopher Michael Sugrue entitled "Nietzsche and the Death of God". He discusses the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, the politics of modern day Nietzscheans, the death of god and consumer capitalism as a form a nihilism, the ongoing nature of human civilizational and spiritual evolution, the biography of Nietzsche, what the next step of human evolution might be, the synthesis of religion and science, scientific and ontological materialism, the limits of atheism, the importance of spiritual struggle, and much more.

Professor Sugrue passed away last year, and Breht has always found his free, public lectures on philosophy to be helpful and really well done. In the spirit of free and open access to education, Breht offers his knowledge of philosophy alongside this offering by Professor Sugrue.
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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.
0:09.0	All right, today I'm doing the second installment of our brand new philosophy series
0:14.7	in which I listen to and respond to a lecture by the late professor Michael Sue Grue is how I believe you pronounce
0:23.8	his name. He passed away in 2024, but he put a bunch of his, I mean, really classic
0:29.5	lectures on philosophy on YouTube for free. And I've always got a lot out of them. You may be
0:35.9	familiar with him if you listened to our somewhat recent
0:38.4	episode a month or so ago where I, you know, responded to, listened, critiqued, analyzed,
0:44.6	expounded upon his lecture on Marx. So obviously that is much more down the center of
0:50.3	Rev Leff's, you know, alley of interests, if you will, but Rev Left has always been,
0:55.7	because I host it, and I'm a philosophy nerd, rooted in philosophy. We've always had episodes
1:02.2	on philosophy. We always will. But throughout the years, and we are coming up on the eighth
1:08.4	year of Rev Left next month, Throughout the years, people have,
1:12.4	you know, always asked for sometimes introductions to philosophy or more philosophy because
1:18.8	they sometimes feel lost with the more complex stuff that we've done on like Alfred North Whitehead
1:24.3	or, you know, even Hegel, stuff like that, can get very complicated, particularly for
1:29.1	people, I mean, for philosophers, for people engaged in philosophy, let alone for people
1:33.7	who have not studied or dovent dived into philosophy very deeply. So this philosophy
1:39.4	series, I think, is, on one hand, just fun and educational. On the second point is a good introduction to, you know, crucial thinkers,
1:50.3	but also is a fun way to bring the really impressive lectures of Professor Michael
1:57.3	Sugru to more people.
1:59.2	Like I said, he passed away, he put all of his stuff out for free.
2:02.1	I found them very useful.
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