Rick Roderick on Nietzsche on Knowledge and Belief [full length]

This video is 6th in the 8-part lecture series Philosophy and Human Values (1990). Thanks to for making this available. I’m merely interested in redistributing to anyone who might enjoy and benefit. I. There are no water-tight distinctions between philosophy and politics. A. The priority of politics is marked even in the Greeks. B. These set the necessary conditions within which human beings can pursue things, such as a good life for themselves. C. There is a severe problem with the writings of Marx. 1. He assumed that workers shaping and forming their own modes of work would not fall victim to the power of the state. 2. The state would step in place of a capitalist class and exploit their labor. D. The process of a world becoming bureaucratically more complex and intrusive at the level of the state is a world phenomenon, and is not localizeable. II. Nietzsche was a critic of modernity. A. Nietzsche held the view that knowledge is a form of power, wh