Erratic Thinking was a radio show and podcast that each week discussed contemporary philosophical issues with prominent philosophers. It was broadcast in 2010, but there are plans to update the website and do a new series of the show in the future.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Hegel and Nietzsche

For our last show we have possibly our most ambitious and difficult topic. Dr Dom Smith is joining me to discuss the contrasting thoughts and methods of two of the most important and influential thinkers in western philosophy; G. W. F Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche. Both of these thinkers can be seen to be picking up the critical project that Kant started, but both in radically different ways. In his, notoriously convoluted, texts Hegel attempts to build up an understanding of reality that allows for dialectical progress towards the ends of absolute knowledge and a perfectly rational society. Nietzsche on the other hand in his much more poetic and comedic style attempts to undermine the whole schema of modern western society progressing towards a point. In order to get a grip on the two thinkers' ideas in our short show we compare there contrasting conceptions of the master/slave relation.

To listen to/download the show go to the following link:

Hegel and Nietzsche Show

So, that was the last show; thank you to everyone who listened, thank you to everyone who took part and thank you to the shows producer Max King.

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