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The title of your youtube videos is typical pompous western view. You should have named it Greatest Philosophers in Western history. When the west was still uncivilized, India had some of the greatest philosophers and thinkers the world has ever known. Of course, you can continue to be intellectually dishonest by not changing the title. Or invest the time and effort to learn about the great Eastern philosophers.
@@AvadoNMod That's the thing, to most people it would be obvious but I'm not sure it would be obvious to Nietzsche. Why would a supremely confident, let's even say arrogant statement like "I am no man. I am dynamite" be wrong? Only reason I would be able to come up with, would be disillusion (If he thought he was something special but he wasn't) in which case the problem still wouldn't be the arrogance but the disillusion. With Nietzsche, I don't think that's the case, he is till this day regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of all time. He challenged and blown up (hence dynamite) countless ideas seen as "obviously" true for thousands of years. Nietzsche doesn't care how it sounds to most people, he says it as he thinks it is.
This is the best overall summary of Nietzsche I have seen on TH-cam. I have listened to a lot. Most of them focus on Zarathustra and/or the first of the three essays in Genealogy. That's great stuff, but there is a lot more great stuff. One thing you omit is that his philological/linguistic contribution, especially in "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense," which prefigured Cognitive Science by about a century. I can forgive that omission, especially as none of the Cognitive Scientists seem to be aware of it. I'd also like to suggest that Übermensch is more properly translated as "beyond human." "Beyond" comes closer to what he meant than "over" and "super." It is the idea of having perilously crossed over the unstable bridge of humanity. I can't figure out a good way of making an English noun out of that, though.
Well done! What a profound and amazingly produced video! Such an organic mixture of images, music and content. I am very glad having discovered this channel and eager to explore it further. One questions: do you credit the paintings as well? I'd like to look further into some them regarding the artist, the background and so. Thx
Thank you! I have recently made artwork galleries of my latest uploads. If you like a certain painting, try to screenshot it and drop it in Google Images to search the author/painting name
I think it has to do with consciousnesses. Some people reach such high states of consciousness that they feel drawn to solitude for a type of clarity because they see the fog of society as a play or even a mental trance that everyone gets caught up in.
Halfway through I remembered watching your video of Jordan Peterson on Nietzsche, and I was like I knew this guy sounded familiar. Awesome video, these types of videos are always super interesting to me. I liked The Overman part where man is like the tightrope between the beast and the Overman. Again awesome video!!
A scientific article said that people think more clearly and creatively when they are walking/moving, not just sitting down. And Nietzsche used to hike in nature and roam in the city, and I read that he even said something like "No great idea has ever been thought while sitting down." paraphrased.. That idea stuck with me for some reason.
Thank you for the kind words! You're right about Dionysus, I'd consider that a bit more "advanced Nietzsche". I could've mentioned it nevertheless. Thanks again!
literally an hour ago, I scribbled on my copy of 'Man's search for meaning'.."What gives values their value?" and i have also written a note titled "Humanity is in the stage of infancy".. So thankful for this video. Now i know who to read next!!
The work "The will to power" from Nietzsche, was mind boggling for me. I know this book is a fake, but the notes are still nietzsche.. And some notes are so profound and smart, that when i read it, my consciousness transforms in a transcendent state of mind. In my opinion the collection of will to power covers all his significant thoughts from all his works. But it's not a good start in nietzsches world. All his works are amazing. Love gay science too, my second favorite. My favorite philosopher of all time, and a father that i never had
@@humanfirst11 His mental health collapsed before he finished it. His notes were taken by his sister and she finished it into a book. The problem is - she was a nazi and the book itself was also used within the nazi's circles. So at least part of the script is a perverted version of original vision (he hated both nazis and his sister) and we will never learn the full extent of what it was supposed to hold. Which is sad because Nietzsche referred the term itself many times and announced Will to Power in his previous work, so this could have very well been his magnum opus that surpasses even Zarathustra.
Yeah except that’s all bull sht. Nietzsche died in 1900 the first publication of Will to Power was in 1901 final in 1906. The nazi party wasn’t a thing until 1920.
The Norwegian musical couple Heidi Solberg and Vegard Sverre Tveitan have made music with lyrics based on Neitzche's philosophies since the 90s. They were paramount to my personal growth.
I believe the story with the horse after which he completely went crazy is actually a myth...but an interesting one of course, especially in reference to the similar experience of raskolnikov out of dostoevskys "crime and punishment"
How is it similar, the only similiarity is that they both went crazy, the reason they did is different, Rashko went crazy because his persona died, and the fragile man underneath came to the forefront, Nietzsche went crazy because he doesn't like to see horses get abused
@@TheExNonGrata Obviously Nietzsches pathogenesis is a little more complicated, but I won't go into it right now. I was refering to one dream passage of Raskolnikov, were he recalls an event similar to said one, where his father (?) whips a horse and he can't do anything to help etc.
Everyone goes crazy when you know that everything you have taught yourself cannot be passed on because people are unable to process your information. Einstein experienced almost the same thing, at some point he asked himself why people can't see what he can see so easily, are people crazy or It self. Fortunately, he didn't fall into depression or maybe he did. If nobody understands you it's hard to stay sane
Fantástico, me resultó de gran utilidad para comprender los conceptos de Nietzsche. He estado leyendo sus obras y a menudo me encuentro con dificultades.
@10:40 He wasn't trying to "end all values." I was surprised you handled all of Beyond Good and Evil in under 2 mins and less than 20 sentences. Quite popular video though. Good job!
I just got a couple of his books, 'Will to Power' and 'Thus Spoke what's his name'. Nietzsche's philosophy is contrary to all I understand to be grounded in life and socially. I'm due for an adventure.
The story with his sister and what she did is so interesting it makes me wonder how much of Nietzsche's work was authentic or not. She might've been able to change a lot of things while he was sick..i'd love more information on that matter
I was watching scientists try and explain consciousness, and found it amazing how they appeared as children discussing the matter. children in a sense deep curiosity and genuine humility, but mainly in a sense that they trying hard to use the tools of the tangible to explain the intangible. I probably know less than them on the matter. but their bewilderment on the topic was clear.
Thank you for prefacing the program by uncovering some of the misconceptions for those out there who were misled. Many still say that Nietzsche was anti semitic or that he was somehow evil and responsible for the war. But his words were twisted and taken out of context. Which, when one thinks about it, can happen to anyone’s words. Or, perhaps, someone can misunderstand a work and then run with it. Walter Kaufmann goes into this in depth in his main work on Nietzsche. That’s what initially educated me. I found his translations peerless as well. He certainly was passionate about it and took it seriously.
One of the key marks of Nietzsche is his refusal to make the leap of faith and disregard of humility, but in the end the means of the faithful are much the same.
Nietzche must have been an evolutionist. His idea of overman as the pinnacle of evolution on earth has a great vibe to it. He is probably the greatest and most misunderstood philosopher of all time. Thank you for the very illuminating video!
Wasn't the horse an ode to Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment? Nietzsche's state of mind was probably similar to Raskolnikov's when Raskolnikov tried to save the horse in Crime and Punishment.
Great overview of Nietzsche! Theres alot there to love, but you can almost taste the coping mechanisms in Nietzsche. I sometimes wonder what the younger Nietzsche would have said about the older Nietzsche. Would he see his overman rants as overly religious? Afterall the future is just yet another 'hinterwelt' for people to hide in, so they don't have to face the here and now. Would he have seen his treatment of humanity as a collection of beings to overcome as overly collectivist? Yet another movment to unite us all and kill what is great about the individual person. Would he have seen the will to power as yet another attempt by a philosopher to unite everything that exists under the dominion of some grand 'idea' rather then face the real world? There is a sad irony to Nietzsche Both in his life, what his works got used for, and the contrast between his works Not to mention that his 'overman' probably came and went before he even got to write any of his works, and didn't change anything in this world.
> I sometimes wonder what the younger Nietzsche would have said about the older Nietzsche. There are variations for sure, such as how he defined Apollon and dionysian > Would he have seen his treatment of humanity as a collection of beings to overcome as overly collectivist? Yet another movment to unite us all and kill what is great about the individual person. No he would not have seen it as collectivist, where did you get the idea that humanisty is a collection of beings to overcome, he states repeatedly that only few great men can overcome and the rest shall be rightfully enslaved. Someone who thought to collectively overcome would be Junger, in the days of the 1930s when he wrote the worker. Junger was the most Nietzschean man to come after Nietzsche's death.
@@TheExNonGrata Well i guess its probably true that he didnt want humanity to be overcome collectivly, but then the fascist inspiration is probably true, that there is a sense in which the ubermensch is an authoritarian idea. Its still rather idealistic, as the ubermensch will be easily done away with by the herd, as the concept lacks the strenght in Numbers. Ernst junger is indeed the most nietzchian to come after, but both him and nietzche are lesser Max stirners, they lack the courage to drop idealism of any kind, and simply let man be man, rather then some philosophers delusions of grandure. But thats what one gets when one attempts to «overcome» nihilism. One simply becomes religious. And sure you can find a good religion out there, a good «philosophy». But they all Ask you to worship ideas as if they are corporeal, and as if thats what the world is made of. Its all a cope with nihilism
@@DeadEndFrog You really don't understand, Nietzsche, do you? What does it even mean to "overcome humanity collectively"? There are base, common instincts and there are rare, higher instincts; one can only strive to overcome what is lowly in oneself. And as nature has hitherto pushed towards man, it will continue to push beyond man, towards the overman. We can choose to either take on this task and be bridges to the overman or go back to the ape. That's authoritarian for you? What idealism did Nietzsche propose? His entire philosophy is a fight against idealism, an effort towards a human-all-too-human philosophy of the earth. A philosophy of physiological and psychological health and strength as I see it. Will to power is not a metaphysical concept but a basic observation about life on earth: an endless battle among forms/patterns for propagation and domination. Every idea/philosophy is an expression of an underlying instinct -- even "simply let man be man" is an idea. And the value of an idea lies in the consequences it produces -- enhancement or decline of the type man. Creatures with highly developed concepts of self as modern humans are incapable of living without finding meaning in ideas.
@@nightwatchman7482 you conflated multiple diffrent points into two paragraphs. But i dont mind, heres what i was getting at; There is a sense in which the ideas mirror the religious, the overman is a messiah to come, the future is his heaven, the authoritarian part is merely the insistance on this dogma. Sure you can interprate him diffrently, but that doesnt make my interpretation any less valid. Unless your willing to say that these ideas are merely a «parody» of religion (which some have claimed). Its still the case that these ideas are diffrent then other philosophers way of dealing with idealism. Instead of inventing a new myth one could simply dismiss the old, and leave humanity as a concept as well. If a philosophy is to be individualistic, it has to stop focusing on these overarching ideas and collective goals for all. Thats just if one wants a truely individualistic philosophy. But i can agree, as i did with the person above, that he probably didnt want humanity to be overcome collectivly. Nietzche hates the way Schopenhauer conceptualized «the will» and he proclaims that this idea is like religion, bound to a dogma, why wouldnt that be the case for the will to power? It seems to me that the critique of asceticism, Even when its done without moralizing, is just a way to critique that which doesnt fit the dogma of will to power. As these people dont seem to share any of the characteristics of power as we see around the world. Does one really need a principle to describe reality? Reality works regardless of ouer mental conceptions, thats what makes it diffrent then philosphies who want to create a new religion, they prescribe how to act, rather then leaveing the ought claims out of ones view of reality. And the danger is of course when one attempts to describe a principle, that one simutaniously creates an ought, while ignoring that which doesnt fit, or having to shoehorn philosophies into «power».
@@DeadEndFrog Okay, I see it differently than you. First of all, developed humans cannot do without a philosophy, whether it be a collective religion or an individual set of values. Even nihilism is a philosophy/idea -- animals don't "believe" and so they don't "believe in nihilism" either. The point is not to describe reality but to have a sense of direction when we're past the stage where nature gave us direction in the wilderness. And so every philosophy is an ought, a Yes and a No. I see Nietzsche's work as an effort to bring man's meaning, or rather his search for meaning, from the heavens to the earth so as to revitalise the withering plant "man". The concept "overman" is part of that effort; he's not a messiah dropped from heaven but a possibility on the earth, a possibility of what we can make ourselves. Of course, like "the best version of ourselves", we will never reach overman and we're never meant to. It's an idea to inspire self-overcoming here and now so we get one step closer to the overman each day, on the bridge that is "man". We must not see overman as an end but adopt self-overcoming as a process, and I think this was the highest goal of Nietzsche's -- to bring back man lost in heavenly idols and ends to an earthly process. Finally, Nietzsche doesn't give a list of thou shalts. And the overman isn't even a collective goal. Very few are capable of the self-overcoming process and to those he gives the tools to create their own overmen and their own thou shalts. This process has to be essentially born out of a will to power, but a form of will to power that makes an individual healthier, stronger and freer, as opposed to the ascetic form of will to power, which negates the animal man and his instincts. Every morality ever created is a will to power, where power is not some metaphysical force but domination and assimilation of patterns on earth, and this is the realization that carries one "beyond good and evil".
"It is vanity to follow the lusts of the flesh and to desire that for which thou must afterwards be grievously punished" --- Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
"Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you - colored smoke did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself; so he created the world. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember reading his works in my college ethics and philosophy classes and I have to say I fell fairly heavy on the side of the German with the push broom mustache
Urantia Book: 15:14.9 Your planet is a member of an enormous cosmos; you belong to a well-nigh infinite family of worlds, but your sphere is just as precisely administered and just as lovingly fostered as if it were the only inhabited world in all existence.
@@Eternalised I highly suggest you do. I think Brad Pitts character in the movie shares the same beliefs. It reflects a Nietzschean perspective on postmodern life. I would even say, in some regards the Brad Pitt Tyler is meant to represent the higher ideal for ourselves. Watch it when you can and let me know what you think. Cheers!
There’s a great video on TH-cam explaining the connection between Nietzsche’s ideas and Fight Club! Highly recommend both the movie or even just the short analysis on here :)
Thanks for the compliment. I agree it was very brief! It is what Zarathustra calls his "most abysmal thought", the event for which the whole book of Thus Spoke Zarathustra exists, the antithesis of Heaven, to want to experience the same life, same struggles, same joys, for eternity. Embracing amor fati. The highest affirmation of earthly life and the ultimate Yes-sayer. I hope it is a bit clearer.
The thing that I don't understand is that every video on Nietzsche claims that he adheres to perspectivism, meaning there are no universal truths. What, then, of the will to power? Should we just disregard it as another transient idea? For this reason, I don't buy the perspectivism idea. Especially having read Beyond Good and Evil, there are many claims to truth Nietzsche makes throughout it, chief among them being will to power. Don't even get me started on the whole notion that "there is no truth" is in itself a claim to truth...
Hola José. Originalmente está en inglés hablado. Sin embargo, están disponibles los subtítulos en Español en el botón de opciones debajo a la derecha del vídeo. ¡Un saludo!
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The title of your youtube videos is typical pompous western view. You should have named it Greatest Philosophers in Western history. When the west was still uncivilized, India had some of the greatest philosophers and thinkers the world has ever known. Of course, you can continue to be intellectually dishonest by not changing the title. Or invest the time and effort to learn about the great Eastern philosophers.
"I am no man. I am dynamite". So powerful, got chills hearing that.
Love that amazing quote :D Thanks for watching!!
Don't you find a phrase like that entirely narcissistic?
@@AvadoNMod And that's supposed to be an argument for or against him?
@@ondrejjavurek7748 isn't it obvious? Of course against him.
@@AvadoNMod That's the thing, to most people it would be obvious but I'm not sure it would be obvious to Nietzsche. Why would a supremely confident, let's even say arrogant statement like "I am no man. I am dynamite" be wrong? Only reason I would be able to come up with, would be disillusion (If he thought he was something special but he wasn't) in which case the problem still wouldn't be the arrogance but the disillusion. With Nietzsche, I don't think that's the case, he is till this day regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of all time. He challenged and blown up (hence dynamite) countless ideas seen as "obviously" true for thousands of years. Nietzsche doesn't care how it sounds to most people, he says it as he thinks it is.
Instead of sugar coating the Value of Truth, he takes it apart like a true gamer. Respect for this Gladiator of thought.
Nietzsche isn't dead yet, once have someone to remember his existence, he cannot cease to exist
"His works were not for general public but only for intellectuals" - now that's something that defines this TH-cam channel.
i think all philosophy is like that
Nietzsche's philosophy is strictly for those with a noble spirit, not intellectuals.
"whoever would be a man, must also be a philosopher"
Careful with that ego
@@nightwatchman7482 Do you possess such a spirit?
Western philosophy is so awesome. Straight to the meat and potatoes. No cope, no fanfiction, no distractions
Modern leadership is convincing the sheep the gate doesn't exist and is locked.
that's too ambiguous to narrow down, whatever you're attempting to convey. Bad job@@xs10tl1
This is the best overall summary of Nietzsche I have seen on TH-cam. I have listened to a lot. Most of them focus on Zarathustra and/or the first of the three essays in Genealogy. That's great stuff, but there is a lot more great stuff. One thing you omit is that his philological/linguistic contribution, especially in "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense," which prefigured Cognitive Science by about a century. I can forgive that omission, especially as none of the Cognitive Scientists seem to be aware of it. I'd also like to suggest that Übermensch is more properly translated as "beyond human." "Beyond" comes closer to what he meant than "over" and "super." It is the idea of having perilously crossed over the unstable bridge of humanity. I can't figure out a good way of making an English noun out of that, though.
Coming back to your channel is always uplifting.
My very favourite philosopher this time. Will watch again.
Thank you.
Well done! What a profound and amazingly produced video! Such an organic mixture of images, music and content. I am very glad having discovered this channel and eager to explore it further. One questions: do you credit the paintings as well? I'd like to look further into some them regarding the artist, the background and so. Thx
Thank you! I have recently made artwork galleries of my latest uploads. If you like a certain painting, try to screenshot it and drop it in Google Images to search the author/painting name
I think it has to do with consciousnesses. Some people reach such high states of consciousness that they feel drawn to solitude for a type of clarity because they see the fog of society as a play or even a mental trance that everyone gets caught up in.
Halfway through I remembered watching your video of Jordan Peterson on Nietzsche, and I was like I knew this guy sounded familiar. Awesome video, these types of videos are always super interesting to me. I liked The Overman part where man is like the tightrope between the beast and the Overman. Again awesome video!!
Thanks Sean! I'm happy you liked it. Appreciate the support a ton!
Careful, Peterson appropriates Nietzsche for his own causes a lot.
I love the visuals and audio, this is some really good work and probably took a lot of hard work.
Thank you very much! Appreciate your kind words, this is what keeps me going! =)
He who loves what he does
Worn himself out doing it.
Friederich Nietzsche love his ideas great philosopher.
Indeed! The best :) Thanks for commenting!
This is great! Very well made, love this! Thank you so much
Thank you very much! Glad you liked it.
This channel deserves way more views. Keep up the great videos.
A scientific article said that people think more clearly and creatively when they are walking/moving, not just sitting down. And Nietzsche used to hike in nature and roam in the city, and I read that he even said something like "No great idea has ever been thought while sitting down." paraphrased.. That idea stuck with me for some reason.
I never ever comment but these are amazing, please post more ❤️❤️
One of the best You Tube introductions to Nietzsche's philosophy. But, the absence of Dionysus makes it a little problematic.
Thank you for the kind words! You're right about Dionysus, I'd consider that a bit more "advanced Nietzsche". I could've mentioned it nevertheless. Thanks again!
Yeah, I agree. That is perhaps a little more advanced Nietzsche.
Good be on you all
literally an hour ago, I scribbled on my copy of 'Man's search for meaning'.."What gives values their value?" and i have also written a note titled "Humanity is in the stage of infancy".. So thankful for this video. Now i know who to read next!!
Dang Great video!! 🔥 I can’t imagine the time to research and put this together 👍👍
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! Did definitely take some time! :)
This video was amazingly produced! Love the work:)
Liked and watched in real time end to end!
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'He expected them to hate him." Something I did not expect, but now understand.
The work "The will to power" from Nietzsche, was mind boggling for me. I know this book is a fake, but the notes are still nietzsche.. And some notes are so profound and smart, that when i read it, my consciousness transforms in a transcendent state of mind. In my opinion the collection of will to power covers all his significant thoughts from all his works. But it's not a good start in nietzsches world. All his works are amazing. Love gay science too, my second favorite. My favorite philosopher of all time, and a father that i never had
Brilliant! I have yet to read his Will to Power. The Gay Science has some amazing parables. I love Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Ernst Junger is better :) He was in some ways more Nietzschean than Nietzsche
"I know this book is a fake.."? That book not written by Nietzsche?
@@humanfirst11 His mental health collapsed before he finished it. His notes were taken by his sister and she finished it into a book. The problem is - she was a nazi and the book itself was also used within the nazi's circles. So at least part of the script is a perverted version of original vision (he hated both nazis and his sister) and we will never learn the full extent of what it was supposed to hold. Which is sad because Nietzsche referred the term itself many times and announced Will to Power in his previous work, so this could have very well been his magnum opus that surpasses even Zarathustra.
Yeah except that’s all bull sht. Nietzsche died in 1900 the first publication of Will to Power was in 1901 final in 1906. The nazi party wasn’t a thing until 1920.
Great video! Look forward to your next one.
Thanks Matt! Appreciate your kind words, will be working on the next one :)
Great content and excellent narration
The greatest philosopher of all time.
I agree.
Lol, he wasn´t very deep. And was a bit confused too
@@alexmorrison9156 He was very deep actually. He went even deeper than Descartes..
@@june4294 Descartes wasn´t deep at all
@@alexmorrison9156 According to you, who was?
The Norwegian musical couple Heidi Solberg and Vegard Sverre Tveitan have made music with lyrics based on Neitzche's philosophies since the 90s. They were paramount to my personal growth.
Can I locate their music on popular platforms like Spotify?
I believe the story with the horse after which he completely went crazy is actually a myth...but an interesting one of course, especially in reference to the similar experience of raskolnikov out of dostoevskys "crime and punishment"
Yep, could just have been a myth. That's a very interesting connection!
How is it similar, the only similiarity is that they both went crazy, the reason they did is different, Rashko went crazy because his persona died, and the fragile man underneath came to the forefront, Nietzsche went crazy because he doesn't like to see horses get abused
@@TheExNonGrata Obviously Nietzsches pathogenesis is a little more complicated, but I won't go into it right now. I was refering to one dream passage of Raskolnikov, were he recalls an event similar to said one, where his father (?) whips a horse and he can't do anything to help etc.
Everyone goes crazy when you know that everything you have taught yourself cannot be passed on because people are unable to process your information. Einstein experienced almost the same thing, at some point he asked himself why people can't see what he can see so easily, are people crazy or It self. Fortunately, he didn't fall into depression or maybe he did. If nobody understands you it's hard to stay sane
What a video! AMAZING content keep it up!
Thank you so much!
Great videos and great contents!
Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for your knowledge and for showing me all my greatest writers and philosophers.
Fantástico, me resultó de gran utilidad para comprender los conceptos de Nietzsche. He estado leyendo sus obras y a menudo me encuentro con dificultades.
¡Me alegro mucho que te haya sido de utilidad! Un abrazo
Thanks for the we'll needed info 👍
Any time! Thanks for watching!
Good Job!!!
Thank you!
amazing. Continue doing this.
Thank you! Will keep doing so! Working on my next. :)
Thank you - this is very valuable in my studies of lifelong learning and mixing with similar souls in solitude
Great insight and well told.
Thank you kindly! Appreciate the kind words
thank you very much! great video for me!
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great video!
wonderful talk on Nietzsche! thanks!
This kind of video should be more relevant than it is. Hope you get there!
Thanks a lot! Slowly but surely =)
Great Video!! Never heard of him before!! Very interesting!! Subbed!! Underrated philosopher!
Much appreciated! Thanks!
been going through all your vids bro and actually enjoying them
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Great content, I enjoyed every moment of it. Thanks for sharing.
@10:40 He wasn't trying to "end all values." I was surprised you handled all of Beyond Good and Evil in under 2 mins and less than 20 sentences. Quite popular video though. Good job!
I just got a couple of his books, 'Will to Power' and 'Thus Spoke what's his name'. Nietzsche's philosophy is contrary to all I understand to be grounded in life and socially. I'm due for an adventure.
The story with his sister and what she did is so interesting it makes me wonder how much of Nietzsche's work was authentic or not. She might've been able to change a lot of things while he was sick..i'd love more information on that matter
His life surely ended in misery but his works, after his death, flourished! In that sense, he became immortal. Nice video! 💯
Absolutely, well said! Thanks for the comment!
Some man is reborn posthumously
This is what he wanted. To become immortal. Simply because he was afraid of death, as probably most people are...
I was watching scientists try and explain consciousness, and found it amazing how they appeared as children discussing the matter. children in a sense deep curiosity and genuine humility, but mainly in a sense that they trying hard to use the tools of the tangible to explain the intangible. I probably know less than them on the matter. but their bewilderment on the topic was clear.
Learnt new facts about this philosopher!!
Thank you for prefacing the program by uncovering some of the misconceptions for those out there who were misled. Many still say that Nietzsche was anti semitic or that he was somehow evil and responsible for the war. But his words were twisted and taken out of context. Which, when one thinks about it, can happen to anyone’s words. Or, perhaps, someone can misunderstand a work and then run with it. Walter Kaufmann goes into this in depth in his main work on Nietzsche. That’s what initially educated me. I found his translations peerless as well. He certainly was passionate about it and took it seriously.
Well done!!!!!
Thanks Matt!!
"Whatever doesn't kill you.. isn't working.." (from grumpy cat meme) 🤣 Thanks for the video! Great stuff, and eternally relevant!
Nice video
One of the key marks of Nietzsche is his refusal to make the leap of faith and disregard of humility, but in the end the means of the faithful are much the same.
Wonderful job
Bro I fucking died when I saw the spaghetti Monster 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😭 talking about creating your own values oh boy I have a new desktop background 🤩
Best exposition of Nietzsche I have come across.
How and when we have killed
Nietzche must have been an evolutionist. His idea of overman as the pinnacle of evolution on earth has a great vibe to it. He is probably the greatest and most misunderstood philosopher of all time. Thank you for the very illuminating video!
Your voice is HILARIOUS
Wow! I learned so much!
Very cool
Brilliant information, very well summarised. I really like his work yet often struggle to to get to the core. Thanks I found this helpful & clear.
I'd love to see a modern film about Neitzsche on the big screen.
Wasn't the horse an ode to Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment? Nietzsche's state of mind was probably similar to Raskolnikov's when Raskolnikov tried to save the horse in Crime and Punishment.
Thank you only one thing missing is Buddhist ideas contribution to his thoughts.
Apparently I've been thinking like this dude for a while
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Great overview of Nietzsche! Theres alot there to love, but you can almost taste the coping mechanisms in Nietzsche. I sometimes wonder what the younger Nietzsche would have said about the older Nietzsche. Would he see his overman rants as overly religious? Afterall the future is just yet another 'hinterwelt' for people to hide in, so they don't have to face the here and now. Would he have seen his treatment of humanity as a collection of beings to overcome as overly collectivist? Yet another movment to unite us all and kill what is great about the individual person. Would he have seen the will to power as yet another attempt by a philosopher to unite everything that exists under the dominion of some grand 'idea' rather then face the real world?
There is a sad irony to Nietzsche
Both in his life, what his works got used for, and the contrast between his works
Not to mention that his 'overman' probably came and went before he even got to write any of his works, and didn't change anything in this world.
> I sometimes wonder what the younger Nietzsche would have said about the older Nietzsche.
There are variations for sure, such as how he defined Apollon and dionysian
> Would he have seen his treatment of humanity as a collection of beings to overcome as overly collectivist? Yet another movment to unite us all and kill what is great about the individual person.
No he would not have seen it as collectivist, where did you get the idea that humanisty is a collection of beings to overcome, he states repeatedly that only few great men can overcome and the rest shall be rightfully enslaved. Someone who thought to collectively overcome would be Junger, in the days of the 1930s when he wrote the worker. Junger was the most Nietzschean man to come after Nietzsche's death.
@@TheExNonGrata Well i guess its probably true that he didnt want humanity to be overcome collectivly, but then the fascist inspiration is probably true, that there is a sense in which the ubermensch is an authoritarian idea.
Its still rather idealistic, as the ubermensch will be easily done away with by the herd, as the concept lacks the strenght in Numbers.
Ernst junger is indeed the most nietzchian to come after, but both him and nietzche are lesser Max stirners, they lack the courage to drop idealism of any kind, and simply let man be man, rather then some philosophers delusions of grandure.
But thats what one gets when one attempts to «overcome» nihilism. One simply becomes religious. And sure you can find a good religion out there, a good «philosophy». But they all Ask you to worship ideas as if they are corporeal, and as if thats what the world is made of.
Its all a cope with nihilism
@@DeadEndFrog You really don't understand, Nietzsche, do you? What does it even mean to "overcome humanity collectively"? There are base, common instincts and there are rare, higher instincts; one can only strive to overcome what is lowly in oneself. And as nature has hitherto pushed towards man, it will continue to push beyond man, towards the overman. We can choose to either take on this task and be bridges to the overman or go back to the ape. That's authoritarian for you?
What idealism did Nietzsche propose? His entire philosophy is a fight against idealism, an effort towards a human-all-too-human philosophy of the earth. A philosophy of physiological and psychological health and strength as I see it. Will to power is not a metaphysical concept but a basic observation about life on earth: an endless battle among forms/patterns for propagation and domination. Every idea/philosophy is an expression of an underlying instinct -- even "simply let man be man" is an idea. And the value of an idea lies in the consequences it produces -- enhancement or decline of the type man. Creatures with highly developed concepts of self as modern humans are incapable of living without finding meaning in ideas.
@@nightwatchman7482 you conflated multiple diffrent points into two paragraphs. But i dont mind, heres what i was getting at;
There is a sense in which the ideas mirror the religious, the overman is a messiah to come, the future is his heaven, the authoritarian part is merely the insistance on this dogma.
Sure you can interprate him diffrently, but that doesnt make my interpretation any less valid. Unless your willing to say that these ideas are merely a «parody» of religion (which some have claimed). Its still the case that these ideas are diffrent then other philosophers way of dealing with idealism. Instead of inventing a new myth one could simply dismiss the old, and leave humanity as a concept as well. If a philosophy is to be individualistic, it has to stop focusing on these overarching ideas and collective goals for all. Thats just if one wants a truely individualistic philosophy.
But i can agree, as i did with the person above, that he probably didnt want humanity to be overcome collectivly.
Nietzche hates the way Schopenhauer conceptualized «the will» and he proclaims that this idea is like religion, bound to a dogma, why wouldnt that be the case for the will to power?
It seems to me that the critique of asceticism, Even when its done without moralizing, is just a way to critique that which doesnt fit the dogma of will to power. As these people dont seem to share any of the characteristics of power as we see around the world.
Does one really need a principle to describe reality? Reality works regardless of ouer mental conceptions, thats what makes it diffrent then philosphies who want to create a new religion, they prescribe how to act, rather then leaveing the ought claims out of ones view of reality.
And the danger is of course when one attempts to describe a principle, that one simutaniously creates an ought, while ignoring that which doesnt fit, or having to shoehorn philosophies into «power».
@@DeadEndFrog Okay, I see it differently than you. First of all, developed humans cannot do without a philosophy, whether it be a collective religion or an individual set of values. Even nihilism is a philosophy/idea -- animals don't "believe" and so they don't "believe in nihilism" either. The point is not to describe reality but to have a sense of direction when we're past the stage where nature gave us direction in the wilderness. And so every philosophy is an ought, a Yes and a No.
I see Nietzsche's work as an effort to bring man's meaning, or rather his search for meaning, from the heavens to the earth so as to revitalise the withering plant "man". The concept "overman" is part of that effort; he's not a messiah dropped from heaven but a possibility on the earth, a possibility of what we can make ourselves. Of course, like "the best version of ourselves", we will never reach overman and we're never meant to. It's an idea to inspire self-overcoming here and now so we get one step closer to the overman each day, on the bridge that is "man". We must not see overman as an end but adopt self-overcoming as a process, and I think this was the highest goal of Nietzsche's -- to bring back man lost in heavenly idols and ends to an earthly process.
Finally, Nietzsche doesn't give a list of thou shalts. And the overman isn't even a collective goal. Very few are capable of the self-overcoming process and to those he gives the tools to create their own overmen and their own thou shalts. This process has to be essentially born out of a will to power, but a form of will to power that makes an individual healthier, stronger and freer, as opposed to the ascetic form of will to power, which negates the animal man and his instincts. Every morality ever created is a will to power, where power is not some metaphysical force but domination and assimilation of patterns on earth, and this is the realization that carries one "beyond good and evil".
Nice ending!
Nice! When video about Gang Nam Style?
9:16 among us family 😳
"It is vanity to follow the lusts of the flesh and to desire that for which thou must afterwards be grievously punished" --- Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Knowledge is dynamite . Philosophie should be learned in school and everything else comes from alone (primary school)
It's easy to philosophize when you don't have to work to make a living.
"Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you - colored smoke did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself; so he created the world. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember reading his works in my college ethics and philosophy classes and I have to say I fell fairly heavy on the side of the German with the push broom mustache
I did a philosophy degree, we were always told this wasn’t actually true and his sister caused this
This guy was bat shit crazy. Smart but crazy.
Nietzsche's great revenge against zoroastristic religions is that more people remember Zarathustra from his book now.
thank you friedrich nietzsche !
what is the painting at 5:48 called? The one with the clouds and the mountain climber.
4:20 a one frame image? Interesting.
Rest in peace.
Are we just going to ignore the fact that at 9:47 they put a picture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in?
The last two years prove The Last Men are the most dangerous Men.
Exelente
1:11: gossip and hearsay re: "a horse being whipped ", a la Dostoevsky. Lol..
I see Kanye practicing these
Wow. Agent Smith does a great job narrating this.
Why has Nietzche captured the imagination of more people than other philosophers ?
He would have gladly exchanged his entire Self and philosophy with a 10" ...
Urantia Book: 15:14.9 Your planet is a member of an enormous cosmos; you belong to a well-nigh infinite family of worlds, but your sphere is just as precisely administered and just as lovingly fostered as if it were the only inhabited world in all existence.
Break the flesh(suffering) so the spirit lives on
This explains me
@21:25 is that the narrator from fight club?
Haven't watched Fight Club, perhaps it shares common beliefs?
@@Eternalised I highly suggest you do. I think Brad Pitts character in the movie shares the same beliefs. It reflects a Nietzschean perspective on postmodern life. I would even say, in some regards the Brad Pitt Tyler is meant to represent the higher ideal for ourselves.
Watch it when you can and let me know what you think. Cheers!
There’s a great video on TH-cam explaining the connection between Nietzsche’s ideas and Fight Club! Highly recommend both the movie or even just the short analysis on here :)
Como encuentro estos videos en español?
Did you shop ur face onto the picture of the dude on horseback
You didn’t explain the eternal recurrence at all. Otherwise good video
Thanks for the compliment. I agree it was very brief! It is what Zarathustra calls his "most abysmal thought", the event for which the whole book of Thus Spoke Zarathustra exists, the antithesis of Heaven, to want to experience the same life, same struggles, same joys, for eternity. Embracing amor fati. The highest affirmation of earthly life and the ultimate Yes-sayer. I hope it is a bit clearer.
Here is a simple test:
Was that life ?
I want to say to death.
Well then!
1 more,
My friend!
The thing that I don't understand is that every video on Nietzsche claims that he adheres to perspectivism, meaning there are no universal truths. What, then, of the will to power? Should we just disregard it as another transient idea?
For this reason, I don't buy the perspectivism idea. Especially having read Beyond Good and Evil, there are many claims to truth Nietzsche makes throughout it, chief among them being will to power. Don't even get me started on the whole notion that "there is no truth" is in itself a claim to truth...
En Espanol???
Hola José. Originalmente está en inglés hablado. Sin embargo, están disponibles los subtítulos en Español en el botón de opciones debajo a la derecha del vídeo. ¡Un saludo!