2016-08-27
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Today's episode is the first in a pretty big series on Frederick Nietzsche,
a series that'll give us a solid foundation to talk about some other existentialists,
the ultimate goal being
that we circle back around and have the perspective necessary to understand the genius of Simone de Beauvoir in her work,
The Ethics of Ambiguity.
So I think the best place to begin this series is to talk about an observation that Nietzsche made about what it's like to be a human being.
But to understand where he's coming from, let's all just agree on one thing.
There are certain things about your existence, my existence,
everyone's existence that nobody really gets that confused about.
Certain things that the average person doesn't really lose sleep over because, well,
there's an answer that's reinforced by the default everyday existence that they were born into.
For example,
the average person's probably not sitting around agonizing until one in the morning about why they have eyeballs, right?
Why?
Why do I have these eyeballs, these marbles coated in this viscous fluid embedded into my skull?