What we’re about
- Welcome! Salt Lake Philosophy Club aims to spread the wonder & wisdom of philosophy to the whole SLC area by regular discussion of philosophical works and topics.
- Roughly every 3 weeks we will meet to freely discuss a philosophical (or philosophy-related) reading which will be chosen & posted beforehand.
- Although actually reading philosophy is a key goal here, we also have occasionally more open meetings for discussing a particular philosophical topic--even drawn from a hat!
- Overall our goal is to understand & appreciate the wonderful world of wild, conflicting thoughts that smart people across all times and places have come up with when facing the Big Questions. Questions like: Who are we? What is the good? What is truth? How ought we to live together? And why is meetup so expensive lately?
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Nietzsche: Twilight Of The IdolsBarnes & Noble Booksellers Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, UT
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger"... For our next SLPC meeting, we will continue our open discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight Of The Idols. (Also thanks to all who joined for our first meeting of the year--a lively start!)
A free PDF of the book is available here. Let's try to get through pages 33-60 this time, i.e. from the start of "The Improvers of Humanity" thru subsection 34 of "Reconnaissance Raids Of An Untimely Man".
For those who did not attend last time don't be intimidated--we are happy to give a quick summary of where we are at and also Nietzsche writes mostly in very self-contained small sections that you can pick up from anywhere in the book.
In this brief book, Nietzsche touches on many of the core ideas of his mature work just prior to his mental collapse in early 1889--particularly the struggle to develop an affirmative, even playful way of living in a world where value systems have collapsed or become unstable. Do we give in to despair? Or hide from the issue through drugs, or ideologies, or even science? Or do we strive through it all to become somehow better (all while being a little unsure what "better" means)?
This philosopher is notorious for posing far more questions than he answers, so come with an open mind and be ready to wander far and wide in the paradoxes of modern (im)morality.
Hope to see you soon!
