Women, Philosophy, and Democracy (Part I): Nietzsche and the Presocratics
Channel: Yogi Philosopher
Date: 2024-01-25

This is the first half of a two-part lecture in which I summarize the major ideas and significance of my first book 'Nietzschean, Feminist, and Embodied Perspectives on the Presocratics: Philosophy as Partnership' (available via the link below). Here, I will explain how I argue for the first half of the book's two-part thesis--that, despite his traditional qua androcentric reading of the presocratic philosophers, Nietzsche's reading of them enables us to see that western philosophy began as what we today would call a feminist religious reformation; that, generally, the presocratics were attempting to revive, within the largely patriarchal and death-glorifying culture of archaic Greece, a paleo/neolithic goddess-centered religion of rebirth. After discussing the basic structure of my argument, I describe how each of the major presocratics (Pherecydes, Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus) contributed to what I call, following Riane Eisler, the partnership tradition of presocratic philosophy. #nietzsche #feminism #philosophy #ancientgreekphilosophy #ancientgreece #goddess #pherecydes #thales #anaximander #pythagoras #heraclitus #parmenides #empedocles #anaxagoras #democritus @Centerforpartnership 

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