#139 - Machiavelli Double Episode: Michael Sugrue & Quentin Skinner on Renaissance Politics, the Philosophy of Ruthlessness, Nihilsm, and Why It Is a Double Pleasure to Deceive the Deceiver

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Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon "The philosopher as we understand him, we free spirits - as the man of the most comprehensive responsibility who has the conscience for the collective evolution of mankind: this philosopher will make use of the religions for his work of education and breeding, just as he will make use of existing political and economic conditions….the will to self-mastery is always increasing - religion presents them with sufficient instigations and temptations to take the road to higher spirituality, to test the feelings of great self-overcoming, of silence and solitude.-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886 -//- (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:41) - Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker (00:44:34) - Nietzsche on Truth and Lies (01:23:54) - Master of Suspicion, the Immoralist (02:04:23) - The Death of God (02:46:06) - The Eternal Return (Time is a Flat Circle) (03:25:04) - The Will to Power (04:08:08) - Nietzsche as Artist (04:49:20) - Nietzsche's Bastard Children --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

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Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”  -Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947 (00:00:00) - Intro & Host Promo (00:00:40) - The Stranger, Part 1 (00:30:36) - The Stranger, Part 2 (01:00:33) - The Myth of Sisyphus (01:29:22) - The Plague & The Fall (01:58:45) - The Fall, Part 2 -//- Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Solomon --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

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