Lucas was sick for a while and Sean was swamped with the end of his first year approaching, so we departed from our normal biweekly schedule. But we’re back! This week Joel and Lucas discuss Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals (1887). But before they dive into the text, they give a recap of their respective AAR regional meetings (Midwest and Western). Joel explains why Northern Indiana such a fascinating place to visit for a scholar of religion, and Lucas describes a “lively” business meeting. In discussing the text, they get into what “valuation” means for Nietzsche, why goodness, badness, and evil are not natural, and why Nietzsche loves ascetic priests so much and thinks Wagner and Schopenhauer are inauthentic hipsters. Take that hipster artist-philosophers who love to quote Nietzsche!

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