Episode 8| Zarathustra Chairs of Virtue and Afterworldsmen| Psychology, Virtue and the Afterlife

In the eighth episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses the sections Of The Chairs of Virtue and Of The Afterworldsmen in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

The episode discusses the psychology of a virtuous individual and those who argue for an afterlife such as Socrates in Plato's Phaedo. Traditionally within philosophy virtue ethics is a set of principles that are to be good for us to uphold. For example, chastity prevents us from being adulterous. Also, metaphysical concepts such as the afterlife or the soul are argued to either exist or do not exist. Nietzsche's view is to understand the psychology of those individuals and creates a psychological profile of them. It is through this approach that we can understand the negative effects virtue ethics has on our mental health and mental state of those who argue for the afterlife.

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