Thucydides, Plato, Christianity (Intro)

This is the opening hour and a half of the sequel to my recording "Thucydides, Plutarch, Nietzsche" for my Technology and Nihilism series. Subscribers will have access to the full 4 hour recording soon. Here I discuss the significance of Thucydides's turn to speeches after the "archaeology." In this recording I discuss Thucydides as the alternative to the Platonic and Aristotelian tradition, and how it is that Nietzsche sees in Thucydides the standard which we are to look towards ...