#684 Patrick Lee Miller: Plato vs. Nietzsche, Metaphysics, and Morality
RECORDED ON JULY 6th 2022.
Dr. Patrick Lee Miller is an associate professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2012), and co-editor of Introductory Readings in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (Hackett, 2015).
In this episode, we talk about Nietzsche and Plato. We start by talking about Nietzsche’s phases in his writings, and ask if The Will to Power should be considered canon. We discuss why we can compare Nietzsche and Plato. And then we get into some of the aspects of their philosophies, and where they diverge and converge, including: the Dionysian, the Apollonian, and the Greek poets; their metaphysics; the Eternal Return, and time as linear or circular; slave and master morality; Plato’s Republic, hierarchy, and democracy; and the differences between the Philosopher King and the Übermensch.
Time Links:
Intro
Phases in Nietzsche’s career
Is The Will to Power canon?
Why compare Nietzsche and Plato?
Nietzsche’s takes on Plato and Socrates
The Dionysian, the Apollonian, and the Greek poets
The metaphysics of Plato and Nietzsche
The Eternal Return, and time as linear or circular
Slave and master morality
Plato’s Republic, hierarchy, and democracy
The Philosopher King, and the Übermensch
Follow Dr. Lee Miller’s work!
Follow Dr. Lee Miller’s work:
Our first interview (Reason and Morality from Antiquity to Postmodernism): https://youtu.be/iYrueaQy-0s
Our second interview (The Philosophy of Black Mirror): https://youtu.be/xokhlikH74s
Faculty Page: https://bit.ly/2NhdBVH
Book “Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy”: https://amzn.to/2YjaP3a
Quillette essays: https://bit.ly/31UAH7M