What did Nietzsche mean by the will to power, and is it enough to answer the death of God? Layman Pascal, author of Nietzsche, All-Too-Nietzsche, in dialogue with Tim Adalin on command and obedience, master and slave morality, power over nature vs making with reality, and whether we should go full Nietzsche.
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What is power, really? Layman Pascal returns to Altered States of Conversation for a one-on-one dialogue with Tim Adalin on Nietzsche's will to power: what Nietzsche meant by it, where it illuminates, and where it may fall short.
Layman sets out power as Nietzsche saw it, one continuum running from the amoeba and the wolf to the poet and the sage, and explains why commanding and obeying begin with commanding and obeying yourself. From there: active, reactive and receptive forces; Nietzsche's life, from his father's parsonage to the sanatorium; peak experience and amor fati; master and slave morality, and how nihilism grows out of it; and Tim's challenge, whether Nietzsche's language of power over leaves room for making with one another, and with nature. The second half takes in metamodernism, Zarathustra as a post-metaphysical spiritual hero, and what is at the edge for Layman now. Then Tim reads the madman from The Gay Science, and they ask what died when God died, whether the will to power is enough to answer nihilism, and what "Nietzsche, All Too Nietzsche" really means.
WITH
Layman Pascal, writer on metamodernism, integral theory, nonduality, postmetaphysics, theology, shamanism and politics; author of Nietzsche, All-Too-Nietzsche and Gurdjieff for a Time-Between-Worlds.
Hosted by Tim Adalin
MENTIONED
Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy · Dōgen on kōans · Hegel's master and slave · Schopenhauer · Wagner · Abraham Maslow and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (peak experience and flow) · Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes · G.I. Gurdjieff · Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale's The Will to Power · Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) · John Vervaeke and Bruce Alderman, Grieving the Death of God · Frank Herbert, Dune · Henri Bergson · C.G. Jung on Nietzsche · the Metamodern Spirituality Labs
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open: the madman
0:44 Introduction: Nietzsche's will to power
2:10 The will to power
6:29 Command and obey
17:10 Who was Nietzsche?
22:57 Did Nietzsche's insight come from altered states?
36:32 Master and slave morality
44:34 Power over or making with
55:34 Nature and Receptivity
1:11:20 Nietzsche and metamodernism
1:24:33 Multiplicity, deep time and AI
1:29:42 The death of God
1:38:04 Is the will to power enough after the death of God?
1:42:54 Eternal recurrence
1:46:55 Difference and return: Bergson, Deleuze and Jung
1:54:01 Going full Nietzsche, and Nietzsche, All Too Nietzsche
Starling murmuration: Karen Roe, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Layman Pascal was incarnated on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. He used to be a meditation teacher, yoga instructor & public speaker—but he’s feeling much better now. He is a writer on themes of cultural philosophy, shamanism and organic spiritual development.
Nietzsche, All Too Nietzsche can be purchased from Amazon here.
Layman's website: https://www.laymanpascal.com/
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Tim is the founder of Voicecraft and a philosopher with a focus on the relation between participation and transformation. You can connect with Tim individually @ https://www.timadalin.xyz
On X @ https://x.com/tim_adalin
And on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-adalin/
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