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...To be frank, when I heard this, I thought I was an Ubermench. And not everything said was completely accurate for me, but it was overall extremely accurate.
@@Multi1what philosophy did you came up with, and what parts didn't you agree with and why do you consider yourself an ubermensch? I created the narcisist, psychopath and empathy theory, the catperson and dog person theory, did you create any?
Nazihee had bad advice.Make man a barbarian again. 2000 years of christian morality is still yet to be grasped if only men like him quit rejecting meekness and tender morality.
Reminds me of the movie Rango. I think about the line "Who am i? Well, i could be anyone." Thats helped me through a lot of existential crisis and turned it into something that changed me in a way i benefit from
Thank you for giving justice to Nietzsche and his ideas. When I've read Also Spracht Zarathustra 16 years ago for the first time I was surprised at how his views of life and humanity were full of joy and courage. And for me always felt strange how everyone could call him an egoist, edgy philosopher. Thank you, really
Thank you for the kind comment! I am passionate about bringing out some of Nietzsche’s more joyful aspects just because of how often they are skipped over
people talk as if Nietzsche defended master morality and the ubermansch represented that, when in reality the idea is that the ubermansch sits outside of master and slave morality
Unfortunately, Nietzsche never got to finish his full analysis of morality, and since his last book was a scathing critique of slave morality, many people conclude that he preferred master morality, when the next book was likely to also be a scathing critique of it.
@@ivansmirnoff6987 His sister as far as I heard was also very reactionary and edited parts of Nietzsche's last work after his death so that it fits more in line with her Ideology
I think people tend to take ideas like the ubermensch, the sigma male, the true warrior, and warp them to their own desires. What starts out as someone strong enough to rise above petty day-to-day quarrels, as it reaches wider appeal and falls under increased social adoption and decreased scrutiny, becomes one who is simply supremely well equipped to deal with such problems. Instead of reshaping sexual values, they become a symbol of the ultimate sexual prowess. Instead of giving and teaching others to earn for themselves, they become someone who no one dares take from. When you forget the importance of the suffering, people invision a superman who cannot be made to suffer.
Stupid ideas made by stupid ideolization prone types because they are self countious with low self esteem. Old as the world. "look I am pathetic and hate myself let's make up some idea and associate with it so I feel better about myself wohoo fun!". Jesus Christ... Its fucking pathetic...
The importance of suffering? So torture is the most meaningful experience in your eyes? Anyone who says it's important has never really suffered lmao. It will break you, not raise you up.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds.The ascetic priest is who had made tortures their daily habit. These priests are hoping to be above-all normal human by limiting something that made them joyful. Those sigma males are those ascetic priests of our times. What we need to do is not making ourselves in a habit of endless torture, but recieving those tortures to change the value of morality in the world.
@@theycallmealex454 What words am I putting in peoples mouths? "the importance of suffering" is literally quoting from the OP's comment. All I'm doing is helping them to reach the logical concluson of their tought process. If you argue there is intrinsic meaning in suffering maximal torture would serve as a hyperbolic time chamber of a sort. If how ever pain is meaningless the meaning is thrived from somewhere else in that experience. Pain is a useless remenant of Evolution for beings capable of abstract tought, this is why storys are so useful to us, we can evolve without the soulcrushing pain.
This video seems the perfect companion of your "Notes from Underground" video. Nietzsche's last man is exactly the protagonist of the novel by Dostoevskij. Brilliant work, keep going.
raskolnikov in crime and punishment also have this idea. he wanted to be the Ubermensch but he couldn't get rid of his feelings and the old virtues judged him, he felt guilty then gave up
@@unsolicitedadvice9198I heard from Jordan Peterson that Nietzsche's works are philosophical explanations for Dostoevsky fiction. And that it's good to read them in parallel
In "Letters from the Underground" by Dostoevsky a great example of a The Last Man is given. Someone so utterly miserable, moralizing and dangerous to those who trust in him. Dostoevsky is a great addition to Nietzsche
I love your videos about Nietzsche because is almost as if you get the closest to what he actually meant, although we’d never know what he actually meant, it feels just right and the way you present your ideas in your videos are so compelling and just mind grabbing I can’t put my attention away even if I tried, thank you! You’re and amazing communicator ❤
Thank you! Though I should say this is just my view and I almost certainly miss stuff out and misinterpret various aspects of his work. But your confidence is much appreciated!
Nietzsche saw Goethe as a the closest one to ubermensch, and he was not built or a conquerer, he lived life on his own terms and progressed life to his own.
Ah I so want to do a video about Nietzsche and Goethe! I always think it’s a great way to bring out Nietzsche’s views on art and creativity (which I touch on a little bit here but I would love to go into more detail about)
That's right. People get this wrong all the time. They think Nietzsche idolized political power or dominating other people. In fact, he saw that as rather petty-minded. He was more concerned with overcoming previous, old, outmoded versions of the self (beliefs, values) than in dominating other people.
Dindt Goethe wrote a Poem (the Prolog of Faust 1) where he says that he is burdend by the Critique of his Work (He elaborates by saying that writing a play percived good by everyone is impossible). I might be missinterpreting the Poem, but I think that Goetthe did not fully live life on his own Terms
I've only read Beyond Good and Evil (a long time ago) and remember enjoying it greatly. My takeaway was that the ubermensch was a man who formulates his own value system rather than simply accepting whatever is on offer. Now I'll watch the video and see how that squares with your presentation.
Hitler admired Nietszche and the idea of a new secular morality free from constraints of christian concepts of good and evil. He revived Pagan symbols the most well known was the swastika of national socialism. He wanted to bring about the ubermensch. I think that is where in part nietzche gets a bad reputation.
On my understanding, the ubermensch is an individual who have a moral core that goes above and beyond what is around him - he is the one who can make (taking Western sensibilities) Christians weep in envy and scream in rage, because he prefer to be HUMAN instead of trying to be something which he is not. The most close real life approximation of it is an Atheist that helps in communitary service every week, without fault, nor slack, but he also likes to hire prostitutes for his/her pleasure but without any demeaning harmul act. I hope I was clear in my interpretation - even I sometimes fail to grasp this.
@@Jamhael1When you create your own values you get things like transgenders, lgbt worshippers, climate protestors, devil worshippers and etc.. Nietzsche was so right and so wrong at the same time. Society cannot function without god, because those values they create on their own will aspire weakness (something nietzsche despised) and not strengthen.
I feel like I have become "the last man" not by choice. Pain is growth so I don't settle fully with comfort but I feel cornered by society and it's norms and obligations that I reject in contrarianism, but all that does is create conflict with others and then the self. I don't know how to return to that hypersurrealist version of my imaginative state I use to have before people tried forcing my ambitions away from me, all reasons to, all meaning, to the point where I struggle with conflict with myself. "Get your head out of the clouds. Reality is on the ground. Grow up." Constantly destroys my encouragement and imagination and throws me back into the repetition of each day in frustration because I haven't been able to overcome these arguments. I use to make more art and think of crazy stories before i was demanded here and now away from all the things that mattered to me most. I have become "the underground man" archetype it seems unwillingly, because of how I struggle to navigate thru life and communication and relation with people. Hell is other people.
get more rebellious. fuck 99% of the people and society, they are all soulless anyway. also you dont need to overcome any arguments, they belong to a mindset which is not desirerable. just ignor them and do your own thing.
All this hell is within you - not in society or others. Take responsibility for it, de-identify with it, and start going your own way without excuses or victim mindset. Meditation is a good way to start.
@@edheldude I despise the word excuse because everything and everyone myself included is one big excuse. It's ALWAYS an excuse. Doesn't matter what I do or don't say. It's always stfu and internalize! Stop with the self expression! How about I don't give a fuck? I reflect society back on itself. I am the product of how everyone treats me. It doesn't matter what anyone goes thru then because in the end, it'll all just be an excuse.
@@ShizaruBloodrayne Yeah. It. Does. Not. Matter. You choose your attitude and actions. Everyone has a story and difficulties. I overcame severe CPTSD and came to my own only in my 40s. Nobody cares but me, and it's all up to me to create the life I want. Nobody has to live a reactive life and play this passive-aggressive victim story in their heads. You control your destiny. The only society that exists is in your mind. It's an abstract thought and we're all individuals.
@@edheldude you haven't had much opposition from people trying to stop you from being yourself and doing what you want and taking extreme preventative measures to end up turning you on yourself, undeserving of anything, have you? The world demands more and respects less as time goes on. I give more and yet more is expected so when I pull away and get resistance, all I ever want is to get away with myself. I think it's messed up. People should care and it does matter about each other but otherwise, if money dictates the world rather than compassion, the world deserves to burn.
Amazing work condensing his idea to easily absorbable pieces! This video and Notes from the Underground are espacially effective at pointing out the problems that made so many people miserable(including myself) but are painfully unaware of.
I truely enjoy your videos and have learned a ton from them. Thank you for making philosophy accessible, as a side but notheless huge bonus, in your beautifually sophisticated British accent.
This video was really powerful to me and evoked a lot of optimistic thoughts. I saved it to a small playlist of videos to keep coming back to, in order to not lose sight of important ideas and perspectives I want to internalise and keep in mind throughout life. Definitely inspired me to read Nietzsche and more philosophy so I can benefit from the wisdom of these lifelong deep thinkers. So thank you, I really do have a deep gratitude for you making these videos and that I found them
" Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most misunderstood giants of mankind. And nobody can feel for him more than I feel, because I am also in the same category -- even more misunderstood a man than Friedrich Nietzsche. When I say I hate poverty, people think I hate the poor people. I hate poverty because I want to destroy poverty completely! There will be no poor people when the poverty is destroyed. The same was the situation with Nietzsche. When he said, "I hate weaklings, and I proclaim the coming of the superman," people misunderstood. They thought, "This man is in favor only of the powerful, superior people, and he is against the ordinary, average humanity." That was not the case"
A real nietzchean wouldn’t ask for Christmas presents they’d go out and steal the books and read them in prison off the book trolley when they can after they learn to read at 48. Get your ideas together.
What interesting timing. I just found a copy of thus spake zarqthustra for free in a box outside the local grocer on my morning walk about an hour ago. I will read it for sure.
Nihilistic sociopath is a stage not the end goal; That angry, unloving part of you that only wants to destroy. But without it, there wouldn't be any change.
Man, it's a very interesting phylosophy. I love the aspect of not being controlled by the will of others, denying the opinion of other people which are not close to you. I love almost every aspect of it including using your brain and striving for the best.
This idea of the cynic nihilist man Nietzhe said we should never become reminds me of my own goals. I guess it’s a mix of the two? The first is to become an adult that my child self would be proud of and feel safe around, the adult I needed when I was dealing with bullies both young and old. And the second was when I had come out of months of not doing my artwork.I was depressed I felt hopeless and it felt like I was rotting alive until I finally picked up my tools and got to work again, I never want to feel that internal rot ever again.
Absolutely amazing video, thank you for making it!! You making this will definitely help make someone that watches this become an ubermensch that leads everyone to truth, freedom and love. If one thing I disagree with Nietzsche is that alotugh suffering sometimes is necessary, we can actually make tasks that seem like suffering into fun if thought about in the right way or if done in such a way. That doesnt mean we never have to suffer and do what is boring, but it means that what is boring and suffering can more often than we think be turned into fun. I also think that fully controlling oneself is hard, like you cannot hold your breath for a whole day, it doesnt work. Instead what we have to do is understand what some truths similar to breathing that are unchangeable about ourselves and instead accept it like Nietzsche's amor fati and then turn that into a strength. For if we cannot change it, then it means it is solid and unyielding, which means it can become a stepping stone towards greater hights if channeled correctly into truth, love and freedom.
very interesting comment. i myself often struggled with not being a hedonist/last man because i thaught "why would i suffer?". But i wanted to get into industry/manufacturing which i accomplished with an apprenticeship. before taking that step i agonized over the potential suffering. but when i started i was so sucked into how interesting everything was that i wasnt even occupied by lifting heavy boxes and cleaning equipment. what one has to remember: us humans can enjoy almost anything that isnt turture (getting mutilated).
@@kettenschlosd Yes you are completely right. We might think something is suffering but that is an assumption. Because beyond the suffering you can learn to have fun doing what you thought would be suffering. Which you had deemed to be suffering only to not exert your will and save energy. But once the mind and body realizes you wont die for doing this and that you actually get rewarded for doing it, then you will learn to like it and even love it. And the suffering stops. The body will always assume exerting effort will be suffering for it wants you to keep doing things that reward you. Why ever do something when you already have everythng the body needs to survive and you are having children (porn and food). So the body and mind thinks you are already doing well and that you therefore have no reason to suffer. So in the beginning when doing something new, you will always suffer for the body wants you to keep doing what it knows it gets rewarded for. So when doing something new you will suffer, however once you feel your first win the suffering becomes less and the exertion of your will is rewarded. If the will is rewarded then you will want to exert it again as to get the reward. So you will want to again try to get the reward. And then you get the reward again. Once you have gotten several rewards and the body knows how much exertion is required to reach it, you stop suffering. For now it knows it wont die and there is a reward in exerting the will, so the body will start to naturally produce dopamine in order to get you to do the work. For it has data on that the cost isnt big and the reward is great and you still live your life with food and having children. So it costs only effort and you keep everything you already wanted and gets some new reward. So you keep everything good you already have and through some effort which you now like get additional rewards for. Of course you will want to do it and love it. However that said, I studied electrical engineering for a while. And thought it was utterly boring. I knew I could make it and learn to like it if I pushed through. But I always wondered, is this really what I wanna do with my life, is this my dream? I had no clue what I wanted to do with my lfie and just picked a path. Then while having fun watching yt I saw a guy who had become a hacker and exposes pedophiles and I thought, that I can see myself doing for the rest of my life. So now I study computer science and it is the best decision I have done. I have not completed it and I like it abit but dont love it yet, but know I will love it eventually. But what I realized is that I never would have discovered this path if I hadnt thought of the other path as boring and followed fun until it lead me to a path I wanted. The problem you see with people who sacrifice themselves and work themselves to the bone is that they trap themselves in a path. They think only work is important and think their work. Problem is then that they might miss some opportunity because they didnt allow themselves to value something other than work, and in particular fun imo. Why fun? Well what does it mean to have fun. You can have fun working which was that you get rewarded for something. Which means fun rewards you for something. What rewards are possible? First we have material rewards, then rewards that are like learning new information. But really what a reward is and what new information is, what they both have in common is that you learn about how the world works. Right? For you learn that something gave you the reward. So the dopamine system is really a truth seeking system that allows you to get to know what works and what doesnt. Will my suffering/exertion of will get rewarded? If not then whatever yo are doing isnt working so stop doing it. So you learn to not do it, for you think that behaviour is a lie. Which it probably is since it didnt work. You have some falsehood about your knowledge about the world which you created an hypothesis about and then acted out to see scientifically if it was true in the world. If you got the reward it turned out to be true, if not then it turned out to be false. The problem is that failing many times people think that there isnt a path that is true, a path that will get you to your accomplishment and get you rewarded. But there always is. But they give up and never change their hypothesis, that is the sets of action the thought would lead to the reward. Like Einstein said, "It is insanity to do the same things over again and expect different results". Most people change the wrong things in their hypothesis or dont change it or dont even know what to change or maybe cannot even change it themselves so they never reach the path of truth. Of reward. Ok so back to fun, why is it important to have fun. For fun is truth. There is some truth in the thing you are doing when you have fun, doesnt mean you know what that truth is but there is one. Usually it is that you learn something or that you get the reward you were seeking after exerting your will. Football is also an intresting example, for some reason it is fun to kick a ball back and forth and score goals. You get no new information, you get no physical reward. Why is it so fun to play football then? Because the fun part is being the best. It is your will to become the overman that grows. So really what fun really is, what we like doing, is to become more competent. Right? Competent to know how the world works, competent in work so you get your physical reward, competent so that you can become the overman capable of amazing feats. And it is fun. Smiling and laughing at the fave of adversity, saying finally a worthy opponent, finally a place to prove myself, finally a place to show my competence and become more competent. Does all boil down to competence? No probably not, competence is important but that is more of a human term. But tbh it is a very good term for now so I will use it. So why is fun important, well if you do only one type of work you become competent in that area. However if you say you arnt allowed distractions then that means you sacrifice all other areas. And really there might be other fields you could develop competence in and that might improve your life more. By having fun you realize there is more to life than just the work you are doing, and if you can find the truth in the fun the you might find what your next step should be. Or by having fun you randomly let in a distraction which widened your perspective by giving you information about something. I also think about how when we were hunters, we didnt hunt all the time. OF course we needed to suffer and be in lfie death situations. But we also needed to talk to each other and have fun and hear stories. Stories could be anime for ecample, life death could be gaming, suffer could be work. However what are the stories there for? So that we can learn and not make the same mistakes and maybe shpae our life into a similar grand story which we wanna act out and achieve our dream. What is gaming for, to discover you like the life death situation and you wanna have something where your life is at stake and you save everyone, work suffering is doing the work that is needed to survive for you and your family. Which means if you only suffer then you settle for mere survival. IF you have fun you find a story or a dream that you wanna achieve. Life and death means staking your life on that dream. So you need suffering, fun and life and death to become the ubermesch. Maybe. Doesnt have to be the case but seems that way. Also is similar to Nietzsches camel lion and child. Camel suffering, child fun, lion life and death. So ye. At lkeast an intresting thought am I right? ;)
@@theseal126 thank you for typing this out. interesting that you similarly to me switched your field of competence. for me it was from psychology to surface treatment technician (electroplating). Struggling and working hard are super important, but if it is for something you dont burn for, its meaningless. psychology is immensly interesting, but i did not want to become a researcher or therapist. now slowly becomming a skilled worker in chemical engineering feels like i am becoming the best version of myself when before it seemed like trying to fit a mold that wasnt made for me. It is important to realize that people are individuals and while there are certain true things about how to live life, everyone has to ultimately go down a different path that fits them. i think this is why fun is important, because it is what we find individually enjoyable. without listening to joy, we know only how to achieve, not what. Both these questions are necessary to get anywhere.
@@kettenschlosd Yes, fun and meaningful work together is key. Also happy to see you found a path that really suited you! Have a good 2024, hope its your best year yet :D
I love the content of your videos, and your enthusiasm for these philosophical ideas is contagious, to me at least. I find myself reading books which have been gathering dust on my bookshelves for far too long. Thank you for all the effort that you put forth...and please know that it is greatly appreciated.
It's not just Christianity that the Ubermensch is battling against. Namely: socialism, communism, democracy, parliamentary government and the press, utilitarianism, nationalism, anarchism.
Oh yes there are all sorts of values Nietzsche wants the Ubermensch to oppose (including values I am rather fond of). I chose the religious angle here just because that serves as a good contrast for educational purposes, and lets you talk about the connection with “God is Dead”
I'm just starting to read nietzsche and the initial impression i got was somewhat similar to what you said about how most people wrongly interpreted him... watching this gave clarity on how I should read his works.Thank you.
My favorite piece of advice from Zarathustra has got to be “don’t throw away the hero that is in you”. As much as Nietzsche criticized Plato and his successors for their metaphysical approach, the message I got from both when it comes to what they advise me to actually DO with my life is kinda the same: to have faith in the best part of myself - and of others - and to try and cultivate it as much as I can. To try and help both myself and others to be the best possible version of ourselves. Which mostly means, to quote Boetius and his Consolation of Philosophy, to not think and live as if I am born only for myself, but “as if I am born for all the world”. Once this is settled, it doesn’t really matter whether you think this “hero” inside yourself is tied to a higher plane of reality or not. Me? I certainly hope so. But it doesn’t change what you have to do with that hero in the here and now.
I very much enjoyed this video, it's weird but it helped me put something in my life into perspective. As a child i lived with just my dad and while he made sure i was fed and well taken care of he didn't give me much attention beyond that. We move a lot as well so i wasn't able to keep friends so i was alone much of the time. Cause of how much time i just spent to myself i always spent a lot of time either in my head or just taking in the sights of the places i found myself in and found difficultly finding the drive to find friends or do much else even after we stopped moving from house to house and finally settled. One day i had a conversation with someone I found to be particularly interesting. I had a what if scenario conversation with a girl who is now a very good friend of mine about world domination Via moon take over with Ponies, i was into My Little Pony as a kid if that wasn't obvious by now. To keep things short this started a chain reaction of me meeting more people who i came to call friends, hung out with a lot, started playing dungeons and dragons with, which lead to me realizing my love of telling stories and Dungeon Mastering and with this sudden group of friends i now had i had people to interact with again. I always loved being around my friends even if by hanging out with them it meant i had to help them in some way. One of my friends i hung out with daily to play video games with him but he wasn't allowed to until he had his math homework done. I was too impatient to wait so i often help him with it so we could get to gaming faster. COVID made things hard again and at the time it happened i was also moving out of my dads out and going out on my own. I was in the Class of 2020 so i had just graduated high school and i had just turned 18. Until about 3 months ago my life has been hard, not a struggle to survive hard even though i did struggle with homelessness a bit, just mostly emotionally hard. Throughout my life i have experienced many ups and downs and would consider myself both a lucky and terribly unlucky person, i have considered suicide in the past 3 separate times almost following through once. I have fallen into pits of utter despair and when i have found myself in these places, like in pandora's box there was a little bit of hope and this hope got me through. But i never understood where it came from for the longest time. I apologize of the long comment, but i just wanted to say dear sir, that your video has helped me to understand, alongside the other events that occurred in my life, that it was my joy of life, the need to help and the desire to not only entertain other but to help propagate and grow the imaginations of others so that they're creativity can grow and flourish. I love to create and the girl i mention earlier does as well, but i know that like myself over these years she's lost motivation and suffers from the dread of procrastination. I had planned to ask her to create some kind of art with me to help reignite her creativity and drive. This video and and comment have serve as a finally understand and motivation I needed to carry forward. If all goes well hopefully the passion for creativity will the reignited for two people. (Sorry if this comment got kinda cringe halfway through i got kinda carried away can jus whent wit dah flo)
Would u please stop making me cry during ur videos lol?! So glad I found ur channel a couple days ago, ur the shit, eloquent and fresh (even while describing a concept from the 1800s)!
These incredible videos are like a masters level philosophy/ethics class. As a person who recently left my religion, these are helpful in rebuilding my own values and goals for progress. Thank you
i think you didn´t get it. would you rather live 1.000 lives as a unhappy peaple or 1 happy.if is you choose the 1.000 thinking you can´t enjoy one why would enjoy other. don´t think i will live one moment just do, dont do what others think you know what is made your fun.
I read "Zarathustra", even using Cliff Notes to help me better understand it, but I admit I found it a chore to read. Don't get me wrong, I like Nietszche's ideas and really appreciate people like yourself who can summarize them so succinctly, but I personally found his writing difficult. And I say this as someone who reads books regularly! 😅
Zarathustra is a parody. If you don’t understand what he is parodying you’re never going to understand that book. And he is doing parody in the Ancient Greek style, not whatever you currently understand parody to be.
Fantastic synopsis. This was very clarifying. Still, I fail to see why the lion must devour everything. Certainly, some axiom, some foundation remains as a means to elaborate on. If truly his intent was to reach the audience of the future, then he exemplified the importance of context. We should instead seek to understand in better depth why we choose to submit ourselves to certain values over others. For whatever Nietzche thought of religion, it's ironic that such a humanitarian would disregard it's commonality throughout time.
Done subscribing. It's rare for me, as someone who watches random yt videos for fun, to actually finish long yt video without interruption. Not to mention, your interpretation of Nietzsche's work is of paramount for someone who haven't read any Nietzsche's books.
if u want to be happy, don't aim for happiness; the search for happiness creates fragmentations within ourselves since we're only focused on one part of ourselves, so we feel a void within after some time. just be you and do what u want to do, fully. no matter the consequences. doing that will allow u to feel whole and therefore happy. one of the biggest lessons i had to learn in my life. don't live up to other's expectations, just be you. express those emotions u got. if people don't like it, fuck em. u don't want people in your life that only wanna be around one part of you.
This really spoke to me... I see stages of myself in these descriptions, fascinating! The pains of doing things that lead to progress, give happiness as a consequence. The consistency of doing work, one enjoys the journey of discovery.
Just came across your channel. This was a really nicely put together and thoughtful piece . You have my subscription, keep up the great work, I'm keen to see more :)
Hell yeah. The ubermensch is that human being that got OP and achieved enough potential to not care about danger, because it will already be prepared for any inconveniences, and the capacity to change reality at personal will, because it will know how to do so.
I've thought about this and I sometimes wonder if this "last man" besides being an abstraction and a ghost (nobody is totally like that, its just a trait that moves on a spectrum) is actually an effort of humanity to move as a whole. Cells are identical and have little individuality but together they form more complex systems that are greater than its parts alone. Nietzsche also calls man "a series of competing wills, the order of which determine the character of that man" Not the exact quote but the basic idea. I think everybody fullfills their own nature by giving in to specific impulses over others, and no two people are the same in regards to which impulses (which they didnt choose since there is no free will) they choose to deem higher(for example self mastery over self indulgence). The last transformation, the "child" sounds deeply like a puer aeternus and unsustainable as the basis of your personality. I think we as a relation of everything we are related to that relates to itself, can and should balance opposites. This childlike attitude should be balanced by wisdom, experiencie and memory. An ever new beginning its just one aspect of it, the other is the eternal undercurrent that never changes and primordial forms from nature which is present in everyting that exists, hence why the new looks new in comparison. Lastly I think Nietzsche gives plenty of hints during his works about what he considers to be "Good". He always prioritizes the body, the ability to self command, never giving in completely to anything but keeping your center, the ability to suffer greatly, etc. Plenty of this is in beyond good and evil and I always thought that it was somewhat contradictory (although not completely) to his overall philosophy of there is no good and evil and to choose your own path.
I disagree with the lack of free will. I believe free will and the conscience/ subconscience link are directly connected. As a thing becomes more aware of what makes them tick they gain the capacity to override it and change there ways.
@@jamessssssssssssssssssssssssss Even Nietzsche agreed with this position which was clearly put by Schopenhauer: You can do what you will, but you can't will what you will. If you decide to override one impulse, thats just giving in to another impulse. Asceticism comes to mind as an example.
This works for people who enjoy thinking. I for one get nausea sleepiness, anxiety fatigue, involuntary loss of memory and eventually hate and anger when thinking both when learning or social interactions . And it’s been happening throughout my school, colledge, working life, it never changed. An neverending suffering that never gets any easyer, actually it get’s harder as you age, much as physical activities hurt more on an older body… So the more you try the less enjoyable things get as the brain looses neurons much like the tendons and joints wear irremediably and tear as you do physical activity. What I learned in my life is that the baseline of intelligence and physical ability remains the same from a very young age, if you are born with it it will flourish always, if not you will never make it better. That’s why there will always be slaves and masters, it’s 99% genetic. And I leave 1% cuz some times just laziness or extreme circumstances leave that born potential not being achieved. Otherwise you potential WILL be fullfiled if yoi’re born with it, if not then you will always lose. Hence the depression and anxieties and all. It’s inevitable cuz you’re just basically in a genetic box of potential you can never surpass it. All of the better children I knew where more smart more social more funnier more powerful physically etc.from day 1 is, not that they worked harder then any of lesser ones, they actually worked less. Although there may be cases of just pure laziness, as already said. You can dilute yourself as I did for most of my 20s that if you work hard enough you will get far. The truth is you can never exit the box, and to be honest, you kinda feel what the limits of the box are from day one, you’re just into that winner mentality that sells so well. If born a slave you will always be a slave, is just physics, you cannot surpass you IQ as you cannot surpass your height, reach endurance etc. in sports. So as Carlin put it, in the world are very few winners and a hole lot of losers, so this bull-shit ubermench crap is the same motivational peptalk as nowadays, the psychos (=Niche) praying on the gullible(the public), for the need for popularity and recognition of the author. (=psycho). So fir us slaves just keep digging drink and shut the frell up, you looser… stop thinking you can be “ubermech”, it’s as gullable as the ideea of god and love of god and all that bullshit, the second ant least is less work, the first you actually sweat your ass of for nothing, but hey fir a decade or so you actually believe you’re something until reality sets in, so I’ll give niche that, you can actually “feel” how powers is without actually having it, by delusion. P.S. I’m not saying you are a looser, you actually seem a smart guy and very good presentation on Nieche’s work, Is just that what he said is just bullshit, it does not work for 99% of people or whatever the percentage of slaves is in a population. Nieche is just a very smart “influencer” but still a psycho in search for attention. PPS Oh and the fact that being destructive and acting like a psycho and a narcissist devouring everything in sight for your own gain fir pleasure and power and then saying that is in the name of love and love of people and for the good of others is the most disgusting psycho repulsive and perverted statement I’ve ever heard in my life. So basically in translation what he’s saying is to strive for being a succubus for pleasure and power by sucking it from others leaving them with suffering and then saying you are doing it for them. Is basically what politicians say. So is basically what’s is already happening, he’s just stating the obvious. Probably a guideline for psychos could be what Nieche was striving for here. But please oh god please don’t tell me you are doing it for my own good cuz that is just disgusting, i literally feel 🤮
Your voice is wonderful, as an Indian I find it hard to understand what americans are saying often but you are crisp and clear. I have saved this video as I look forward to listening to it couple of more times, because every time I do, newer thoughts come up on my mind.
Carl Jung had reservations about the way Nietzsche abandoned traditional religious and moral values, which he considered essential for psychological balance and personal development. According to Jung, Nietzsche's concept of the Übermensch, striving for uniqueness and power, could foster the development of narcissism and alienation, thereby ignoring the deeper psychological needs of the individual. He emphasized that religious symbols and myths play a key role in human psychic life. He believed that religious archetypes and symbols are not only important for the unconscious sphere of the psyche but can also be a source of wisdom and guidance necessary for understanding human life and its development.
G.K Chesterton wrote,"...all that Nietzsche had to say put into two lines, but you will find it put in the very words of Nietzsche. Richard Crookback says to his nobles: "Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.” As I have said, the fact is plain. Shakespeare had thought of Nietzsche and the Master Morality; but he weighed it at its proper value and put it in its proper place. Its proper place is the mouth of a half-insane hunchback on the eve of defeat. This rage against the weak is only possible in a man morbidly brave but fundamentally sick; a man like Richard, a man like Nietzsche."
If you want a very short version of what Nietzsche is, focus on being strong enough to achieve your happiness when it arrives, this has been my TedTalk.
Transforming suffering into love, developing will, breaking the taboos of culture and tribe to become individuated … Are characteristics of the ancient path of Tantra. Very bright of him to spot some core methods, and what a pity he did not get to meet (and learn from) those who have always lived what he was theorising.
One addition I would add is that he was maybe the first proponent of "breaking expectations" - from religion, from society, from family. He wanted the world to pursue a sense of Humanity that would make people even today break their minds trying to find sense because said individual would be considered, by their expectations, much better and much worse then them AT THE SAME TIME. The best visualisation for this would be an Atheist who do communitarian service every week without fault nor slack, but also smoke weed and have casual sex or hire prostitutes once in a while, and is a Communists/Anarchist in its political leanings but despise the hollow morality defended by the extremists from his own side of the aisle, prefering practical solutions instead of the pursuit of an impossible ideal. And he/she does this because he/she understand that "Utopia" is not a goal, but a PROCESS that has no end, and it is our duty to pave the way for the ones who will come.
I think the basis of denying spirituality in favour of material things is misguided. And that is probably what allowed such greedy people to make the mess we currently live in. Spirituality without structured religion and a love for all in life without been addicted to material things are what I would say are more clear guidelines
Ah perhaps my explanation was a bit unclear. It is not so much that Nietzsche was encouraging us to love material things so much as material reality. For instance his doctrine of "Amor Fati" (developed out of some Stoic philosophy) encourages us to embrace this material life rather than (as he saw it) "postpone" the significance of existence to an afterlife. So it is not "materialism" in our modern sense, but rather a veneration of our reality, contrasted with what he saw as a veneration of some higher plane of existence (like Heaven, in the case of Christianity).
Ye that makes sense. I made my comment before you fully explained yourself in the video. Hopefully people dont get lost trying to find the middle ground between a higher cause and materialism.
Can you please say your age? I'm genuinely wondering how young is it possible for someone to get this deep understanding about such a topic? I know a handful of phelosophy enthusiasts that talked about this topic in my native language "Arabic" and didn't even come close to explain it this good. In fact now I saw this I think they get it absolutely wrong.
Neitzche and Diogenes are my seeming favorite philosophical characters. I’ve recently begun to conclude , that human sentience allows us the potential to understand the symbiosis in reality and that we can harness evolutionary processes systematically to become better people and possibly create new life forms even finer tuned than ourselves. I think philosophy is key to the regulation of desire and it’s application , through ethics , aesthetics… will prevent us from a nihilistic extinction.
Something that always confused me about Nietzsche was how he would say you needed to rebel, challenge the authorities and those in power. The values of the ruling class effectively, but then would turn around and lambast Socialists and Communists who actually did that. And how he himself would find common ground with the most powerful people in history who were in all due likelihood preserving the current order and beliefs/moral systems.
Rewatching this video again, and the part at 11:20 about a man doing cruel things out of love rather than hate any only focused on his will, sounds a lot like Thanos. Thanos said, “Dread it, run from it, Destiny arrives, or should I say, I have.” When Gamora tells Thanos, “You don’t know that!” Thanos replied, “I’m the only one who knows that.” Later in Endgame “In all my years of Conquest, it was never personal.” I feel like you could break down the idea of the Ubermench side by side with Thanos and it would entirely make sense. Now one can see why Thanos is so well liked.
My interpretation of nietzche is that the ubermensche isn't a single person but a sort of process. Cant think of a perfect example but the best one I can give right now is the Dali Lama is the reincarnation of the previous Dali Lama. Each their own person but carrying out the same purpose. Nietzche is the last man or camel, the distinction doesn't matter. People and their philosophical systems grow with time but the ubermensche is the overarching direction the collective system of his philosophy is pointing.
Very great explanation, even as I have teh luck to be able to read Nietzsche in German myself (and I have at least read "Also sprach Zarathustra") I think your explanation is very good, as it highlit and examen it.
8:30 the idea of transition to making own morals makes sense. But how can one person regain innocence after being a lion, or how can a generation raised by lions be innocent? All the talk of lion's and innocence reminds me of William Blake. I think Blake is an example of a Child type Ubermensh. Would love to see a video on William Blake, even though he is more of a poet than a philosopher.
Can you do an episode about one piece?!?!? I feel like their are strong correlations between Luffy’s journey and the super man. I think it would be cool, get a lot of views, and it plays into something you said in your QnA video about how todays great philosophers are the people making our media and contributing to our culture. I think One Piece would be a great example of a piece of very modern media that also carry’s philosophical meaning
Wow... that was really fascinating. I wrote a science fiction novel, based on AI, and did not realize I was writing about the Übermensch. Thank you for that. “And Those Who Were Seen Dancing Were Thought To Be Insane By Those Who Could Not Hear The Music.”
If it's done really well if becomes a prescient warning of what NOT to do. Unfortunately, many read these prescient warnings as if it is an instruction manual. Nietzsche loved Dostoevsky so there may be hope yet. Dostoevsky wrote of Christ returning to Earth to then be rejected by those who pledged their loyalty to Lucifer. And Nietzsche’s unbelief may have contributed to his nervous breakdown. Yet Nietzsche’s lack of faith may have resulted in no support when he brilliantly pulled away the illusions of all philosophy. Unlike Nietzsche, I would be led by the Spirit to say it is time to, “Let our souls magnify the Lord” -- and realize there are no borders, especially when we blow into the sails of another's boat. Tesla once said, "If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." Replace hatred with chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility and light up the world for our Lord. This is what authentic free energy is all about -- this is the true meaning of Nietzsche’s Ubermensch.. "If your chastity could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." "If your temperance could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." "If your charity could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." "If your diligence could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." "If your patience could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." "If your kindness could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." "If your humility could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
Thanks very much for this excellent video. You highlighted the key points brilliantly. Is there a way to find a transcript or written version of what you said in this video? Thank you.
My interpretation is that the Ubermensch is not a saint or a person who will profess or try to convince the crowd of his values. But a person who despite the crowd and their values (that he rejects) is bold enough to create his own set of values and live by them, without trying to start a movement. Furthermore I think "these values" are highly personal and there can be multiple different types of ubermensch persons, that have widely different values. The key is that these values are self-generated and a result of one's own reflections.
I absolutely f*cking love nietzsche, he is by far my favourit philosopher. He sees the world pretty much exactly as i do, he is just far more capable of putting it into words. Acceptance of unavoidable nihilism but way too much optimism to see demise because of it. A clear vision of our potential but far from thinkting that humanity is a sacret masterrace that needs to seek domination over everything. I think nietzsche is perfectly balancing on the line between good and evil. He is extreme enaugh in his views to shake the world to it's core but he is not an extremist fanatic who would shed blood over it. Everyone has the potential to become the child of a lion and a camel. 😅
Interestingly enough, I’m realizing that there’s an isekai fantasy books series (He Who Fights With Monsters) which explores in a fantastical context what an example of an ubermensche would be and dives into the philosophical issues and difficulties with the process of becoming one 🤯. Highly recommend reading it, the MC literally overcomes god(s) and creates his own moral system, going through the difficult process of having his principles go through trial by fire
Fascinating stuff. Have you heard of "Kaizen" and "Continuous-Improvement" from Lean production? If we run towards our problems & fix them (or at least summon up effective counter-measures), things improve. People's mood lightens. The culture shifts.
Oh also besides praising your superb presentation and transcripts I do wish you had citations so we could follow up your interpretations with the exact text you draw them from
I have really enjoyed your channel. Just lately discovered you. Cheers The most interesting thing about philosophy is the way you perceive it as you age.
What a great video. I didn't know anything about Nietzsche so this has been a great introduction. It's surprisingly similar to how I see the world, so it's nice to know an academic was here first. As I see it the ubermench is your view of the world rather than the view of everyone's world. In my world, I am God. This makes sense to me as when I am dead, my world will dissappear so if I can't control what happens in my world, what's the point? You have the power to make your life comfortable and contented because happiness is also a false goal. Happiness is the peak of your feelings which can only be turned into depression. Aim to live in the middle! Anyway, I'll spend some time looking through your videos and thanks for creating them.
Doesnt the description of the ubermensch sound like the description of various prophets in history? Not sure if I'm making a fair comparison, but here is my shot: Like excluding the god angle, you can argue that budda, mohammed, christ, etc kinda fit the mold of the 3 requirements, where they were strong enough to bear the world (camel), whose beliefs and stength destroyed previous traditions and were called madmen by thier detractors and traditionalists of the time (tiger), and whome after all that built up thier own systems of morality with a mostly life afferming messege (child) ? These prophets did also tend to appear during times where religiosity was low with old traditions also being in question too, similar to the modern day in some way
As a survivor of early life violence. It took me 45 years to dig deep into Nietzsche. And I’ve lived a life in 3 countries .. multiple languages.. cultures … and decades of mental and spiritual work. You must be ready before you make critical judgment errors. Because is life changing but there’s a path to follow. Just like a F1 car. You can’t just jump. You need to know before it. It takes decades. Nietzsche is 100% on point on the “Superman”
In the camel analogy, the camel is like an icon for self-improvement based on human purpose and meaning. A camel doesn't seek to be rode, but is sought.
U made this philosopher very accessible. Great advice excepting the purposeful deliberate seeking of suffering. Obviously it's inevitable, and to accept it as strengthening is an empowering idea. But to relish it? He was an unrealized masochist.
I Don't think Nietzche thought that the overman was a means to an end, but infinitely far away goal to forever strive towards, given the broader context of his thought. He agreed with Heraclitus that the world was an ever-living fire, ever changing. He used evolution as a metaphor for the overman, which itself is not a means to an end of some finalized supreme lifeform, but, like the ever-living fire, forever changing into forms that can not only grow stronger but also weaker. Evolution and cultural History is not a straight ascending line perpetually improving, but capable of decadence. I think the whole idea that the overman can ever be reached goes against Zarathustra's teachings. One section I have in mind is the marketplace with the tightrope walker when Zarathustra speaks of the hour of great contempt. "The hour in which your happiness, too, arouses your disgust, and even your reason and your virtue". To say the overman can be reached, or to claim it has been reached, is that "poverty and filth and wretched contentment". The overman itself is something to be continually overcome to a further, higher, overman. Remember how Nietzche made the comparison that the ape is the laughing stalk of man, and that man would be a laughing stalk to the overman in the same way? The overman itself will be a laughing stalk to itself--the overoverman. Noone can reach these higher forms of beings he talked about in a lifetime. But they are the arrows of longing. they are to be shot at, and like an arrow, eventually decline and fall back to earth.
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...To be frank, when I heard this, I thought I was an Ubermench. And not everything said was completely accurate for me, but it was overall extremely accurate.
@@Multi1what philosophy did you came up with, and what parts didn't you agree with and why do you consider yourself an ubermensch?
I created the narcisist, psychopath and empathy theory, the catperson and dog person theory, did you create any?
To be as a child is also religious...
Im so happy real philosophy is making a comeback, i mean not that he said she said nonsense but people actually philosophising themselves👍
Nazihee had bad advice.Make man a barbarian again. 2000 years of christian morality is still yet to be grasped if only men like him quit rejecting meekness and tender morality.
Where you see an existential crisis, I see an existential opportunity.
Haha! That’s very Nietzsche!
Reminds me of the movie Rango. I think about the line "Who am i? Well, i could be anyone." Thats helped me through a lot of existential crisis and turned it into something that changed me in a way i benefit from
already seen somewhere
Existential Gigachads🗿
Thank you for giving justice to Nietzsche and his ideas.
When I've read Also Spracht Zarathustra 16 years ago for the first time I was surprised at how his views of life and humanity were full of joy and courage. And for me always felt strange how everyone could call him an egoist, edgy philosopher.
Thank you, really
Thank you for the kind comment! I am passionate about bringing out some of Nietzsche’s more joyful aspects just because of how often they are skipped over
Couldn't agree more. I'm always a little dumbfounded how people bend Nietzsche to their will.
people talk as if Nietzsche defended master morality and the ubermansch represented that, when in reality the idea is that the ubermansch sits outside of master and slave morality
Most people are also idiots... And few idiots are more insidious than academics.
Unfortunately, Nietzsche never got to finish his full analysis of morality, and since his last book was a scathing critique of slave morality, many people conclude that he preferred master morality, when the next book was likely to also be a scathing critique of it.
@@ivansmirnoff6987 His sister as far as I heard was also very reactionary and edited parts of Nietzsche's last work after his death so that it fits more in line with her Ideology
"ubermansch" lol please never change! ;D Correct spelling would be Übermensch or Uebermensch I guess. But I think you are spot on.
@harz632 She wasn't reactionary. She was married to a proto fascist and later helped the Nazis to cherry pick Nietzsche's work to fit Nazi ideals.
I think people tend to take ideas like the ubermensch, the sigma male, the true warrior, and warp them to their own desires. What starts out as someone strong enough to rise above petty day-to-day quarrels, as it reaches wider appeal and falls under increased social adoption and decreased scrutiny, becomes one who is simply supremely well equipped to deal with such problems. Instead of reshaping sexual values, they become a symbol of the ultimate sexual prowess. Instead of giving and teaching others to earn for themselves, they become someone who no one dares take from. When you forget the importance of the suffering, people invision a superman who cannot be made to suffer.
Stupid ideas made by stupid ideolization prone types because they are self countious with low self esteem. Old as the world. "look I am pathetic and hate myself let's make up some idea and associate with it so I feel better about myself wohoo fun!". Jesus Christ... Its fucking pathetic...
The importance of suffering? So torture is the most meaningful experience in your eyes? Anyone who says it's important has never really suffered lmao. It will break you, not raise you up.
@My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds.The ascetic priest is who had made tortures their daily habit. These priests are hoping to be above-all normal human by limiting something that made them joyful. Those sigma males are those ascetic priests of our times. What we need to do is not making ourselves in a habit of endless torture, but recieving those tortures to change the value of morality in the world.
@@iirostarkyou put words in people’s mouths and expect them to give you an answer to a specific question you already answered in your head.
@@theycallmealex454 What words am I putting in peoples mouths? "the importance of suffering" is literally quoting from the OP's comment. All I'm doing is helping them to reach the logical concluson of their tought process. If you argue there is intrinsic meaning in suffering maximal torture would serve as a hyperbolic time chamber of a sort. If how ever pain is meaningless the meaning is thrived from somewhere else in that experience. Pain is a useless remenant of Evolution for beings capable of abstract tought, this is why storys are so useful to us, we can evolve without the soulcrushing pain.
This video seems the perfect companion of your "Notes from Underground" video. Nietzsche's last man is exactly the protagonist of the novel by Dostoevskij. Brilliant work, keep going.
Thank you so much! And I did think a lot about The Underground Man reading that part of Thus Spake Zarathustra
I agree! I saw parallels to Tales from the Underground too
raskolnikov in crime and punishment also have this idea. he wanted to be the Ubermensch but he couldn't get rid of his feelings and the old virtues judged him, he felt guilty then gave up
@@unsolicitedadvice9198I heard from Jordan Peterson that Nietzsche's works are philosophical explanations for Dostoevsky fiction.
And that it's good to read them in parallel
In "Letters from the Underground" by Dostoevsky a great example of a The Last Man is given. Someone so utterly miserable, moralizing and dangerous to those who trust in him. Dostoevsky is a great addition to Nietzsche
True, even Raskolnikov was a Nietzschean except in the end.
I love your videos about Nietzsche because is almost as if you get the closest to what he actually meant, although we’d never know what he actually meant, it feels just right and the way you present your ideas in your videos are so compelling and just mind grabbing I can’t put my attention away even if I tried, thank you! You’re and amazing communicator ❤
Thank you! Though I should say this is just my view and I almost certainly miss stuff out and misinterpret various aspects of his work. But your confidence is much appreciated!
@@unsolicitedadvice9198hey can you make vedios on eastern phylospers such as Rumi. allama Iqbal I will be waiting 😊
Nietzsche saw Goethe as a the closest one to ubermensch, and he was not built or a conquerer, he lived life on his own terms and progressed life to his own.
Ah I so want to do a video about Nietzsche and Goethe! I always think it’s a great way to bring out Nietzsche’s views on art and creativity (which I touch on a little bit here but I would love to go into more detail about)
That's right. People get this wrong all the time. They think Nietzsche idolized political power or dominating other people. In fact, he saw that as rather petty-minded. He was more concerned with overcoming previous, old, outmoded versions of the self (beliefs, values) than in dominating other people.
Dindt Goethe wrote a Poem (the Prolog of Faust 1) where he says that he is burdend by the Critique of his Work (He elaborates by saying that writing a play percived good by everyone is impossible). I might be missinterpreting the Poem, but I think that Goetthe did not fully live life on his own Terms
Diogenes. >:)
He is still wrong, allah is the only god and our purpose is to worship him
Your work ethic is unmatched. You even upload on New Year's Eve. Happy New Year!
Thank you! Happy new year to you as well!
I've only read Beyond Good and Evil (a long time ago) and remember enjoying it greatly. My takeaway was that the ubermensch was a man who formulates his own value system rather than simply accepting whatever is on offer. Now I'll watch the video and see how that squares with your presentation.
Hitler admired Nietszche and the idea of a new secular morality free from constraints of christian concepts of good and evil. He revived Pagan symbols the most well known was the swastika of national socialism. He wanted to bring about the ubermensch. I think that is where in part nietzche gets a bad reputation.
On my understanding, the ubermensch is an individual who have a moral core that goes above and beyond what is around him - he is the one who can make (taking Western sensibilities) Christians weep in envy and scream in rage, because he prefer to be HUMAN instead of trying to be something which he is not.
The most close real life approximation of it is an Atheist that helps in communitary service every week, without fault, nor slack, but he also likes to hire prostitutes for his/her pleasure but without any demeaning harmul act.
I hope I was clear in my interpretation - even I sometimes fail to grasp this.
@@Jamhael1When you create your own values you get things like transgenders, lgbt worshippers, climate protestors, devil worshippers and etc..
Nietzsche was so right and so wrong at the same time. Society cannot function without god, because those values they create on their own will aspire weakness (something nietzsche despised) and not strengthen.
You are one articulate speaker! Your excitement is contagious. Awesome stuff
Ah thank you! And I find it difficult not to get over-enthusiastic about this sort of thing
I feel like I have become "the last man" not by choice. Pain is growth so I don't settle fully with comfort but I feel cornered by society and it's norms and obligations that I reject in contrarianism, but all that does is create conflict with others and then the self. I don't know how to return to that hypersurrealist version of my imaginative state I use to have before people tried forcing my ambitions away from me, all reasons to, all meaning, to the point where I struggle with conflict with myself. "Get your head out of the clouds. Reality is on the ground. Grow up." Constantly destroys my encouragement and imagination and throws me back into the repetition of each day in frustration because I haven't been able to overcome these arguments. I use to make more art and think of crazy stories before i was demanded here and now away from all the things that mattered to me most. I have become "the underground man" archetype it seems unwillingly, because of how I struggle to navigate thru life and communication and relation with people. Hell is other people.
get more rebellious. fuck 99% of the people and society, they are all soulless anyway.
also you dont need to overcome any arguments, they belong to a mindset which is not desirerable.
just ignor them and do your own thing.
All this hell is within you - not in society or others. Take responsibility for it, de-identify with it, and start going your own way without excuses or victim mindset.
Meditation is a good way to start.
@@edheldude I despise the word excuse because everything and everyone myself included is one big excuse. It's ALWAYS an excuse. Doesn't matter what I do or don't say. It's always stfu and internalize! Stop with the self expression! How about I don't give a fuck? I reflect society back on itself. I am the product of how everyone treats me. It doesn't matter what anyone goes thru then because in the end, it'll all just be an excuse.
@@ShizaruBloodrayne Yeah. It. Does. Not. Matter.
You choose your attitude and actions. Everyone has a story and difficulties.
I overcame severe CPTSD and came to my own only in my 40s. Nobody cares but me, and it's all up to me to create the life I want.
Nobody has to live a reactive life and play this passive-aggressive victim story in their heads. You control your destiny.
The only society that exists is in your mind. It's an abstract thought and we're all individuals.
@@edheldude you haven't had much opposition from people trying to stop you from being yourself and doing what you want and taking extreme preventative measures to end up turning you on yourself, undeserving of anything, have you? The world demands more and respects less as time goes on. I give more and yet more is expected so when I pull away and get resistance, all I ever want is to get away with myself. I think it's messed up. People should care and it does matter about each other but otherwise, if money dictates the world rather than compassion, the world deserves to burn.
Amazing work condensing his idea to easily absorbable pieces! This video and Notes from the Underground are espacially effective at pointing out the problems that made so many people miserable(including myself) but are painfully unaware of.
I truely enjoy your videos and have learned a ton from them. Thank you for making philosophy accessible, as a side but notheless huge bonus, in your beautifually sophisticated British accent.
Thank you for watching! I’m really glad you are enjoying them
What an amazing explanation! Havent commented on a yt video in a while but this was great! Especially the bit at the end where you put it all together
Thank you! That means a lot
Very well said and one of the better discussions of the Old Sage on these internets. Bravo!
Your videos always come through just when I need them . Hope you have a happy new year and keep up the good work !
Thank you! Happy new year to you too!
This video was really powerful to me and evoked a lot of optimistic thoughts. I saved it to a small playlist of videos to keep coming back to, in order to not lose sight of important ideas and perspectives I want to internalise and keep in mind throughout life. Definitely inspired me to read Nietzsche and more philosophy so I can benefit from the wisdom of these lifelong deep thinkers. So thank you, I really do have a deep gratitude for you making these videos and that I found them
" Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most misunderstood giants of mankind. And nobody can feel for him more than I feel, because I am also in the same category -- even more misunderstood a man than Friedrich Nietzsche.
When I say I hate poverty, people think I hate the poor people. I hate poverty because I want to destroy poverty completely! There will be no poor people when the poverty is destroyed.
The same was the situation with Nietzsche. When he said, "I hate weaklings, and I proclaim the coming of the superman," people misunderstood. They thought, "This man is in favor only of the powerful, superior people, and he is against the ordinary, average humanity." That was not the case"
Where is that quote from?
@@mathiasbillard4225 from a talk by Osho. He has commented on Nietzsche many times including two whole books of his talks on Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Brother Thankfully I have Found you. I am the New Man osho was taking about and Friedrich Nietzshe, s Übermensch
You made me like Nietzsche so much that I asked for him for Christmas and got all of his works ❤
Ah that is one of the highest compliments a person could receive. Thank you so much!
A real nietzchean wouldn’t ask for Christmas presents they’d go out and steal the books and read them in prison off the book trolley when they can after they learn to read at 48. Get your ideas together.
Welcome in THE CLUB mate ! A realm you never EVER will leave . . .
A couple minutes in and I’m already impressed with your “do not take my word as gospel”
Humble and wise
What interesting timing. I just found a copy of thus spake zarqthustra for free in a box outside the local grocer on my morning walk about an hour ago. I will read it for sure.
I just wanna say that you really inspire me thanks and never stop making videos.
Thank you! That’s very kind!
Nihilistic sociopath is a stage not the end goal; That angry, unloving part of you that only wants to destroy. But without it, there wouldn't be any change.
Disolve et coagula - Destruction and creation.
Law old as time.
Living with chronic health conditions, Nietzsche is an inspiration 🔥
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Same here. It's hard to accept at first. After a while you see everyday as an opportunity and a new life
This channel and the philosophy you discuss are amazing. Keep it up.
Thank you! I’m glad you like it
Man, it's a very interesting phylosophy. I love the aspect of not being controlled by the will of others, denying the opinion of other people which are not close to you. I love almost every aspect of it including using your brain and striving for the best.
This idea of the cynic nihilist man Nietzhe said we should never become reminds me of my own goals. I guess it’s a mix of the two? The first is to become an adult that my child self would be proud of and feel safe around, the adult I needed when I was dealing with bullies both young and old. And the second was when I had come out of months of not doing my artwork.I was depressed I felt hopeless and it felt like I was rotting alive until I finally picked up my tools and got to work again, I never want to feel that internal rot ever again.
Then take inspiration from it - teach the world about it!
Absolutely amazing video, thank you for making it!! You making this will definitely help make someone that watches this become an ubermensch that leads everyone to truth, freedom and love.
If one thing I disagree with Nietzsche is that alotugh suffering sometimes is necessary, we can actually make tasks that seem like suffering into fun if thought about in the right way or if done in such a way. That doesnt mean we never have to suffer and do what is boring, but it means that what is boring and suffering can more often than we think be turned into fun. I also think that fully controlling oneself is hard, like you cannot hold your breath for a whole day, it doesnt work. Instead what we have to do is understand what some truths similar to breathing that are unchangeable about ourselves and instead accept it like Nietzsche's amor fati and then turn that into a strength. For if we cannot change it, then it means it is solid and unyielding, which means it can become a stepping stone towards greater hights if channeled correctly into truth, love and freedom.
very interesting comment. i myself often struggled with not being a hedonist/last man because i thaught "why would i suffer?". But i wanted to get into industry/manufacturing which i accomplished with an apprenticeship. before taking that step i agonized over the potential suffering. but when i started i was so sucked into how interesting everything was that i wasnt even occupied by lifting heavy boxes and cleaning equipment. what one has to remember: us humans can enjoy almost anything that isnt turture (getting mutilated).
@@kettenschlosd Yes you are completely right. We might think something is suffering but that is an assumption. Because beyond the suffering you can learn to have fun doing what you thought would be suffering. Which you had deemed to be suffering only to not exert your will and save energy. But once the mind and body realizes you wont die for doing this and that you actually get rewarded for doing it, then you will learn to like it and even love it. And the suffering stops. The body will always assume exerting effort will be suffering for it wants you to keep doing things that reward you. Why ever do something when you already have everythng the body needs to survive and you are having children (porn and food). So the body and mind thinks you are already doing well and that you therefore have no reason to suffer. So in the beginning when doing something new, you will always suffer for the body wants you to keep doing what it knows it gets rewarded for. So when doing something new you will suffer, however once you feel your first win the suffering becomes less and the exertion of your will is rewarded. If the will is rewarded then you will want to exert it again as to get the reward. So you will want to again try to get the reward. And then you get the reward again. Once you have gotten several rewards and the body knows how much exertion is required to reach it, you stop suffering. For now it knows it wont die and there is a reward in exerting the will, so the body will start to naturally produce dopamine in order to get you to do the work. For it has data on that the cost isnt big and the reward is great and you still live your life with food and having children. So it costs only effort and you keep everything you already wanted and gets some new reward. So you keep everything good you already have and through some effort which you now like get additional rewards for. Of course you will want to do it and love it.
However that said, I studied electrical engineering for a while. And thought it was utterly boring. I knew I could make it and learn to like it if I pushed through. But I always wondered, is this really what I wanna do with my life, is this my dream? I had no clue what I wanted to do with my lfie and just picked a path. Then while having fun watching yt I saw a guy who had become a hacker and exposes pedophiles and I thought, that I can see myself doing for the rest of my life. So now I study computer science and it is the best decision I have done. I have not completed it and I like it abit but dont love it yet, but know I will love it eventually. But what I realized is that I never would have discovered this path if I hadnt thought of the other path as boring and followed fun until it lead me to a path I wanted.
The problem you see with people who sacrifice themselves and work themselves to the bone is that they trap themselves in a path. They think only work is important and think their work. Problem is then that they might miss some opportunity because they didnt allow themselves to value something other than work, and in particular fun imo. Why fun? Well what does it mean to have fun. You can have fun working which was that you get rewarded for something. Which means fun rewards you for something. What rewards are possible? First we have material rewards, then rewards that are like learning new information. But really what a reward is and what new information is, what they both have in common is that you learn about how the world works. Right? For you learn that something gave you the reward. So the dopamine system is really a truth seeking system that allows you to get to know what works and what doesnt. Will my suffering/exertion of will get rewarded? If not then whatever yo are doing isnt working so stop doing it. So you learn to not do it, for you think that behaviour is a lie. Which it probably is since it didnt work. You have some falsehood about your knowledge about the world which you created an hypothesis about and then acted out to see scientifically if it was true in the world. If you got the reward it turned out to be true, if not then it turned out to be false. The problem is that failing many times people think that there isnt a path that is true, a path that will get you to your accomplishment and get you rewarded. But there always is. But they give up and never change their hypothesis, that is the sets of action the thought would lead to the reward. Like Einstein said, "It is insanity to do the same things over again and expect different results". Most people change the wrong things in their hypothesis or dont change it or dont even know what to change or maybe cannot even change it themselves so they never reach the path of truth. Of reward.
Ok so back to fun, why is it important to have fun. For fun is truth. There is some truth in the thing you are doing when you have fun, doesnt mean you know what that truth is but there is one. Usually it is that you learn something or that you get the reward you were seeking after exerting your will. Football is also an intresting example, for some reason it is fun to kick a ball back and forth and score goals. You get no new information, you get no physical reward. Why is it so fun to play football then? Because the fun part is being the best. It is your will to become the overman that grows. So really what fun really is, what we like doing, is to become more competent. Right? Competent to know how the world works, competent in work so you get your physical reward, competent so that you can become the overman capable of amazing feats. And it is fun. Smiling and laughing at the fave of adversity, saying finally a worthy opponent, finally a place to prove myself, finally a place to show my competence and become more competent. Does all boil down to competence? No probably not, competence is important but that is more of a human term. But tbh it is a very good term for now so I will use it.
So why is fun important, well if you do only one type of work you become competent in that area. However if you say you arnt allowed distractions then that means you sacrifice all other areas. And really there might be other fields you could develop competence in and that might improve your life more. By having fun you realize there is more to life than just the work you are doing, and if you can find the truth in the fun the you might find what your next step should be. Or by having fun you randomly let in a distraction which widened your perspective by giving you information about something.
I also think about how when we were hunters, we didnt hunt all the time. OF course we needed to suffer and be in lfie death situations. But we also needed to talk to each other and have fun and hear stories. Stories could be anime for ecample, life death could be gaming, suffer could be work. However what are the stories there for? So that we can learn and not make the same mistakes and maybe shpae our life into a similar grand story which we wanna act out and achieve our dream. What is gaming for, to discover you like the life death situation and you wanna have something where your life is at stake and you save everyone, work suffering is doing the work that is needed to survive for you and your family.
Which means if you only suffer then you settle for mere survival. IF you have fun you find a story or a dream that you wanna achieve. Life and death means staking your life on that dream. So you need suffering, fun and life and death to become the ubermesch. Maybe. Doesnt have to be the case but seems that way. Also is similar to Nietzsches camel lion and child. Camel suffering, child fun, lion life and death. So ye. At lkeast an intresting thought am I right? ;)
@@theseal126 thank you for typing this out. interesting that you similarly to me switched your field of competence. for me it was from psychology to surface treatment technician (electroplating). Struggling and working hard are super important, but if it is for something you dont burn for, its meaningless. psychology is immensly interesting, but i did not want to become a researcher or therapist. now slowly becomming a skilled worker in chemical engineering feels like i am becoming the best version of myself when before it seemed like trying to fit a mold that wasnt made for me. It is important to realize that people are individuals and while there are certain true things about how to live life, everyone has to ultimately go down a different path that fits them. i think this is why fun is important, because it is what we find individually enjoyable. without listening to joy, we know only how to achieve, not what. Both these questions are necessary to get anywhere.
@@kettenschlosd Yes, fun and meaningful work together is key. Also happy to see you found a path that really suited you!
Have a good 2024, hope its your best year yet :D
@@theseal126 you too, have a nice year/life ^^
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Thank you! I’m really glad you are enjoying the videos! Happy new year!
Also from Zimbabwe , can i get your number im looking for a person like you to have a deep chat with
As always great video and insight.
Thank you! I’m really glad you liked it!
I love the content of your videos, and your enthusiasm for these philosophical ideas is contagious, to me at least. I find myself reading books which have been gathering dust on my bookshelves for far too long. Thank you for all the effort that you put forth...and please know that it is greatly appreciated.
It's not just Christianity that the Ubermensch is battling against. Namely: socialism, communism, democracy, parliamentary government and the press, utilitarianism, nationalism, anarchism.
Oh yes there are all sorts of values Nietzsche wants the Ubermensch to oppose (including values I am rather fond of). I chose the religious angle here just because that serves as a good contrast for educational purposes, and lets you talk about the connection with “God is Dead”
Egalitarism.
lol why socialism and communism?
@@unsolicitedadvice9198Which values are you fond off?
@@william7809 egalitarian doctrines
I'm just starting to read nietzsche and the initial impression i got was somewhat similar to what you said about how most people wrongly interpreted him... watching this gave clarity on how I should read his works.Thank you.
Keep making videos. Excellent stuff.
Thank you so much! You are very kind!
Legend 👊
This channel will grow to be one of the best in youtube
My favorite piece of advice from Zarathustra has got to be “don’t throw away the hero that is in you”. As much as Nietzsche criticized Plato and his successors for their metaphysical approach, the message I got from both when it comes to what they advise me to actually DO with my life is kinda the same: to have faith in the best part of myself - and of others - and to try and cultivate it as much as I can. To try and help both myself and others to be the best possible version of ourselves. Which mostly means, to quote Boetius and his Consolation of Philosophy, to not think and live as if I am born only for myself, but “as if I am born for all the world”.
Once this is settled, it doesn’t really matter whether you think this “hero” inside yourself is tied to a higher plane of reality or not. Me? I certainly hope so. But it doesn’t change what you have to do with that hero in the here and now.
I very much enjoyed this video, it's weird but it helped me put something in my life into perspective. As a child i lived with just my dad and while he made sure i was fed and well taken care of he didn't give me much attention beyond that. We move a lot as well so i wasn't able to keep friends so i was alone much of the time.
Cause of how much time i just spent to myself i always spent a lot of time either in my head or just taking in the sights of the places i found myself in and found difficultly finding the drive to find friends or do much else even after we stopped moving from house to house and finally settled.
One day i had a conversation with someone I found to be particularly interesting. I had a what if scenario conversation with a girl who is now a very good friend of mine about world domination Via moon take over with Ponies, i was into My Little Pony as a kid if that wasn't obvious by now.
To keep things short this started a chain reaction of me meeting more people who i came to call friends, hung out with a lot, started playing dungeons and dragons with, which lead to me realizing my love of telling stories and Dungeon Mastering and with this sudden group of friends i now had i had people to interact with again. I always loved being around my friends even if by hanging out with them it meant i had to help them in some way.
One of my friends i hung out with daily to play video games with him but he wasn't allowed to until he had his math homework done. I was too impatient to wait so i often help him with it so we could get to gaming faster.
COVID made things hard again and at the time it happened i was also moving out of my dads out and going out on my own. I was in the Class of 2020 so i had just graduated high school and i had just turned 18.
Until about 3 months ago my life has been hard, not a struggle to survive hard even though i did struggle with homelessness a bit, just mostly emotionally hard.
Throughout my life i have experienced many ups and downs and would consider myself both a lucky and terribly unlucky person, i have considered suicide in the past 3 separate times almost following through once. I have fallen into pits of utter despair and when i have found myself in these places, like in pandora's box there was a little bit of hope and this hope got me through. But i never understood where it came from for the longest time.
I apologize of the long comment, but i just wanted to say dear sir, that your video has helped me to understand, alongside the other events that occurred in my life, that it was my joy of life, the need to help and the desire to not only entertain other but to help propagate and grow the imaginations of others so that they're creativity can grow and flourish.
I love to create and the girl i mention earlier does as well, but i know that like myself over these years she's lost motivation and suffers from the dread of procrastination. I had planned to ask her to create some kind of art with me to help reignite her creativity and drive. This video and and comment have serve as a finally understand and motivation I needed to carry forward. If all goes well hopefully the passion for creativity will the reignited for two people. (Sorry if this comment got kinda cringe halfway through i got kinda carried away can jus whent wit dah flo)
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Would u please stop making me cry during ur videos lol?! So glad I found ur channel a couple days ago, ur the shit, eloquent and fresh (even while describing a concept from the 1800s)!
These incredible videos are like a masters level philosophy/ethics class. As a person who recently left my religion, these are helpful in rebuilding my own values and goals for progress. Thank you
“I AM THE ÜBERMENSCH!” Famous medic quotes of time
i think you didn´t get it. would you rather live 1.000 lives as a unhappy peaple or 1 happy.if is you choose the 1.000 thinking you can´t enjoy one why would enjoy other. don´t think i will live one moment just do, dont do what others think you know what is made your fun.
I read "Zarathustra", even using Cliff Notes to help me better understand it, but I admit I found it a chore to read. Don't get me wrong, I like Nietszche's ideas and really appreciate people like yourself who can summarize them so succinctly, but I personally found his writing difficult. And I say this as someone who reads books regularly! 😅
Thank you! And don’t worry, Zarathustra is really confusingly written even for Nietzsche. I had to read it twice to make heads or tails of it
Try Hagel, he is the word salad expert.
Zarathustra is famously obscure. You might try "Twilight of the Idols" or "The Anti-Christ." Those are much more straightforward.
Zarathustra is a parody. If you don’t understand what he is parodying you’re never going to understand that book. And he is doing parody in the Ancient Greek style, not whatever you currently understand parody to be.
@@Arven8 Thank you for the recommendations Arven! I guess I picked the wrong "1st book" to start with! 🤣
Fantastic synopsis. This was very clarifying. Still, I fail to see why the lion must devour everything. Certainly, some axiom, some foundation remains as a means to elaborate on. If truly his intent was to reach the audience of the future, then he exemplified the importance of context. We should instead seek to understand in better depth why we choose to submit ourselves to certain values over others. For whatever Nietzche thought of religion, it's ironic that such a humanitarian would disregard it's commonality throughout time.
Done subscribing. It's rare for me, as someone who watches random yt videos for fun, to actually finish long yt video without interruption. Not to mention, your interpretation of Nietzsche's work is of paramount for someone who haven't read any Nietzsche's books.
if u want to be happy, don't aim for happiness; the search for happiness creates fragmentations within ourselves since we're only focused on one part of ourselves, so we feel a void within after some time. just be you and do what u want to do, fully. no matter the consequences. doing that will allow u to feel whole and therefore happy. one of the biggest lessons i had to learn in my life. don't live up to other's expectations, just be you. express those emotions u got. if people don't like it, fuck em. u don't want people in your life that only wanna be around one part of you.
do what the fuck u want to do.
This really spoke to me... I see stages of myself in these descriptions, fascinating! The pains of doing things that lead to progress, give happiness as a consequence. The consistency of doing work, one enjoys the journey of discovery.
Just came across your channel. This was a really nicely put together and thoughtful piece . You have my subscription, keep up the great work, I'm keen to see more :)
Thank you! I’m really glad you liked the video
Hell yeah. The ubermensch is that human being that got OP and achieved enough potential to not care about danger, because it will already be prepared for any inconveniences, and the capacity to change reality at personal will, because it will know how to do so.
I've thought about this and I sometimes wonder if this "last man" besides being an abstraction and a ghost (nobody is totally like that, its just a trait that moves on a spectrum) is actually an effort of humanity to move as a whole. Cells are identical and have little individuality but together they form more complex systems that are greater than its parts alone.
Nietzsche also calls man "a series of competing wills, the order of which determine the character of that man" Not the exact quote but the basic idea. I think everybody fullfills their own nature by giving in to specific impulses over others, and no two people are the same in regards to which impulses (which they didnt choose since there is no free will) they choose to deem higher(for example self mastery over self indulgence).
The last transformation, the "child" sounds deeply like a puer aeternus and unsustainable as the basis of your personality. I think we as a relation of everything we are related to that relates to itself, can and should balance opposites. This childlike attitude should be balanced by wisdom, experiencie and memory. An ever new beginning its just one aspect of it, the other is the eternal undercurrent that never changes and primordial forms from nature which is present in everyting that exists, hence why the new looks new in comparison.
Lastly I think Nietzsche gives plenty of hints during his works about what he considers to be "Good". He always prioritizes the body, the ability to self command, never giving in completely to anything but keeping your center, the ability to suffer greatly, etc. Plenty of this is in beyond good and evil and I always thought that it was somewhat contradictory (although not completely) to his overall philosophy of there is no good and evil and to choose your own path.
I disagree with the lack of free will.
I believe free will and the conscience/ subconscience link are directly connected.
As a thing becomes more aware of what makes them tick they gain the capacity to override it and change there ways.
@@jamessssssssssssssssssssssssss Even Nietzsche agreed with this position which was clearly put by Schopenhauer: You can do what you will, but you can't will what you will. If you decide to override one impulse, thats just giving in to another impulse. Asceticism comes to mind as an example.
so really its just another unanswerable question like if god is real or the there was something before the big bang.@@luciocastro1418
This works for people who enjoy thinking. I for one get nausea sleepiness, anxiety fatigue, involuntary loss of memory and eventually hate and anger when thinking both when learning or social interactions . And it’s been happening throughout my school, colledge, working life, it never changed. An neverending suffering that never gets any easyer, actually it get’s harder as you age, much as physical activities hurt more on an older body… So the more you try the less enjoyable things get as the brain looses neurons much like the tendons and joints wear irremediably and tear as you do physical activity. What I learned in my life is that the baseline of intelligence and physical ability remains the same from a very young age, if you are born with it it will flourish always, if not you will never make it better. That’s why there will always be slaves and masters, it’s 99% genetic. And I leave 1% cuz some times just laziness or extreme circumstances leave that born potential not being achieved. Otherwise you potential WILL be fullfiled if yoi’re born with it, if not then you will always lose. Hence the depression and anxieties and all. It’s inevitable cuz you’re just basically in a genetic box of potential you can never surpass it. All of the better children I knew where more smart more social more funnier more powerful physically etc.from day 1 is, not that they worked harder then any of lesser ones, they actually worked less. Although there may be cases of just pure laziness, as already said. You can dilute yourself as I did for most of my 20s that if you work hard enough you will get far. The truth is you can never exit the box, and to be honest, you kinda feel what the limits of the box are from day one, you’re just into that winner mentality that sells so well. If born a slave you will always be a slave, is just physics, you cannot surpass you IQ as you cannot surpass your height, reach endurance etc. in sports. So as Carlin put it, in the world are very few winners and a hole lot of losers, so this bull-shit ubermench crap is the same motivational peptalk as nowadays, the psychos (=Niche) praying on the gullible(the public), for the need for popularity and recognition of the author. (=psycho). So fir us slaves just keep digging drink and shut the frell up, you looser… stop thinking you can be “ubermech”, it’s as gullable as the ideea of god and love of god and all that bullshit, the second ant least is less work, the first you actually sweat your ass of for nothing, but hey fir a decade or so you actually believe you’re something until reality sets in, so I’ll give niche that, you can actually “feel” how powers is without actually having it, by delusion. P.S. I’m not saying you are a looser, you actually seem a smart guy and very good presentation on Nieche’s work, Is just that what he said is just bullshit, it does not work for 99% of people or whatever the percentage of slaves is in a population. Nieche is just a very smart “influencer” but still a psycho in search for attention. PPS Oh and the fact that being destructive and acting like a psycho and a narcissist devouring everything in sight for your own gain fir pleasure and power and then saying that is in the name of love and love of people and for the good of others is the most disgusting psycho repulsive and perverted statement I’ve ever heard in my life. So basically in translation what he’s saying is to strive for being a succubus for pleasure and power by sucking it from others leaving them with suffering and then saying you are doing it for them. Is basically what politicians say. So is basically what’s is already happening, he’s just stating the obvious. Probably a guideline for psychos could be what Nieche was striving for here. But please oh god please don’t tell me you are doing it for my own good cuz that is just disgusting, i literally feel 🤮
Great video as always, keep up the good work! Happy new year🎉!
Thank you! Happy new year!
I’m reading thus spake Zarathustra currently because I received this for Christmas. Very happy coincidence. Happy new years!
Happy new year! And happy reading!
Your voice is wonderful, as an Indian I find it hard to understand what americans are saying often but you are crisp and clear. I have saved this video as I look forward to listening to it couple of more times, because every time I do, newer thoughts come up on my mind.
Great great video’s man! Love the fact that these are not too mainstream.
Carl Jung had reservations about the way Nietzsche abandoned traditional religious and moral values, which he considered essential for psychological balance and personal development. According to Jung, Nietzsche's concept of the Übermensch, striving for uniqueness and power, could foster the development of narcissism and alienation, thereby ignoring the deeper psychological needs of the individual. He emphasized that religious symbols and myths play a key role in human psychic life. He believed that religious archetypes and symbols are not only important for the unconscious sphere of the psyche but can also be a source of wisdom and guidance necessary for understanding human life and its development.
Oh yeah there are many criticisms you can make of Nietzsche’s conception here. I don’t think his ideas are infallible, just very interesting
Amazing content dude.
I dont think the quote 'God is dead' means what you said here but meaning that without religion society would fall apart.
very precise and clear. the subtitles really help you focus on the topic. thank you
Thank you! And I am glad the subtitles help (though they are certainly divisive)
Well put brother! Love this explanation. It has added fuel to my fire, thank you
What a passionate and deepsighted reflexion on Friedrich's concept! Thanks from Germany!
Your channel us just what I've been looking for, meaningful long form content
Great content man
G.K Chesterton wrote,"...all that Nietzsche had to say put into two lines, but you will find it put in the very words of Nietzsche. Richard Crookback says to his nobles: "Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.” As I have said, the fact is plain. Shakespeare had thought of Nietzsche and the Master Morality; but he weighed it at its proper value and put it in its proper place. Its proper place is the mouth of a half-insane hunchback on the eve of defeat. This rage against the weak is only possible in a man morbidly brave but fundamentally sick; a man like Richard, a man like Nietzsche."
I am fascinated with your left hand. It is a great orator on its own. Together you are the dynamic duo, invincible.
This was a really good video bro, thank you for this!
If you want a very short version of what Nietzsche is, focus on being strong enough to achieve your happiness when it arrives, this has been my TedTalk.
Happiness doesn't arrive and it's not something you achieve. Short isn't good if it's incoherent.
Your Ted talk may need to stay in your head.
@30yearsoldiam1 it does arrive just like every other emotion. It shows up then it leaves.
Transforming suffering into love, developing will, breaking the taboos of culture and tribe to become individuated …
Are characteristics of the ancient path of Tantra.
Very bright of him to spot some core methods, and what a pity he did not get to meet (and learn from) those who have always lived what he was theorising.
One addition I would add is that he was maybe the first proponent of "breaking expectations" - from religion, from society, from family.
He wanted the world to pursue a sense of Humanity that would make people even today break their minds trying to find sense because said individual would be considered, by their expectations, much better and much worse then them AT THE SAME TIME.
The best visualisation for this would be an Atheist who do communitarian service every week without fault nor slack, but also smoke weed and have casual sex or hire prostitutes once in a while, and is a Communists/Anarchist in its political leanings but despise the hollow morality defended by the extremists from his own side of the aisle, prefering practical solutions instead of the pursuit of an impossible ideal. And he/she does this because he/she understand that "Utopia" is not a goal, but a PROCESS that has no end, and it is our duty to pave the way for the ones who will come.
Excellent vid. 8 Fold Noble Path is a good practice. Combat practice is good. Autonomy is good. Self mastery is good. Don't bully yourself.
I think the basis of denying spirituality in favour of material things is misguided. And that is probably what allowed such greedy people to make the mess we currently live in.
Spirituality without structured religion and a love for all in life without been addicted to material things are what I would say are more clear guidelines
Ah perhaps my explanation was a bit unclear. It is not so much that Nietzsche was encouraging us to love material things so much as material reality. For instance his doctrine of "Amor Fati" (developed out of some Stoic philosophy) encourages us to embrace this material life rather than (as he saw it) "postpone" the significance of existence to an afterlife.
So it is not "materialism" in our modern sense, but rather a veneration of our reality, contrasted with what he saw as a veneration of some higher plane of existence (like Heaven, in the case of Christianity).
Ye that makes sense. I made my comment before you fully explained yourself in the video.
Hopefully people dont get lost trying to find the middle ground between a higher cause and materialism.
Can you please say your age? I'm genuinely wondering how young is it possible for someone to get this deep understanding about such a topic? I know a handful of phelosophy enthusiasts that talked about this topic in my native language "Arabic" and didn't even come close to explain it this good. In fact now I saw this I think they get it absolutely wrong.
Neitzche and Diogenes are my seeming favorite philosophical characters. I’ve recently begun to conclude , that human sentience allows us the potential to understand the symbiosis in reality and that we can harness evolutionary processes systematically to become better people and possibly create new life forms even finer tuned than ourselves. I think philosophy is key to the regulation of desire and it’s application , through ethics , aesthetics… will prevent us from a nihilistic extinction.
I read Zarathustra 30 Year's ago and it is still my "Bible". You did a great job here. My Respect!
Something that always confused me about Nietzsche was how he would say you needed to rebel, challenge the authorities and those in power. The values of the ruling class effectively, but then would turn around and lambast Socialists and Communists who actually did that. And how he himself would find common ground with the most powerful people in history who were in all due likelihood preserving the current order and beliefs/moral systems.
Because in all due likelihood those in power were there only by the consent of the aristocracy or the financial oligarchy.
Rewatching this video again, and the part at 11:20 about a man doing cruel things out of love rather than hate any only focused on his will, sounds a lot like Thanos.
Thanos said, “Dread it, run from it, Destiny arrives, or should I say, I have.”
When Gamora tells Thanos, “You don’t know that!”
Thanos replied, “I’m the only one who knows that.”
Later in Endgame “In all my years of Conquest, it was never personal.”
I feel like you could break down the idea of the Ubermench side by side with Thanos and it would entirely make sense.
Now one can see why Thanos is so well liked.
My interpretation of nietzche is that the ubermensche isn't a single person but a sort of process. Cant think of a perfect example but the best one I can give right now is the Dali Lama is the reincarnation of the previous Dali Lama. Each their own person but carrying out the same purpose. Nietzche is the last man or camel, the distinction doesn't matter. People and their philosophical systems grow with time but the ubermensche is the overarching direction the collective system of his philosophy is pointing.
Very great explanation, even as I have teh luck to be able to read Nietzsche in German myself (and I have at least read "Also sprach Zarathustra") I think your explanation is very good, as it highlit and examen it.
your energy is amazing, hope to see you on more topics.
8:30 the idea of transition to making own morals makes sense. But how can one person regain innocence after being a lion, or how can a generation raised by lions be innocent?
All the talk of lion's and innocence reminds me of William Blake. I think Blake is an example of a Child type Ubermensh. Would love to see a video on William Blake, even though he is more of a poet than a philosopher.
Can you do an episode about one piece?!?!? I feel like their are strong correlations between Luffy’s journey and the super man. I think it would be cool, get a lot of views, and it plays into something you said in your QnA video about how todays great philosophers are the people making our media and contributing to our culture. I think One Piece would be a great example of a piece of very modern media that also carry’s philosophical meaning
I was thinking this too Luffy is definetely the person we should all aspire to be
Wow... that was really fascinating. I wrote a science fiction novel, based on AI, and did not realize I was writing about the Übermensch. Thank you for that. “And Those Who Were Seen Dancing Were Thought To Be Insane By Those Who Could Not Hear The Music.”
I have started this book. This was an interesting perspective
If it's done really well if becomes a prescient warning of what NOT to do. Unfortunately, many read these prescient warnings as if it is an instruction manual.
Nietzsche loved Dostoevsky so there may be hope yet. Dostoevsky wrote of Christ returning to Earth to then be rejected by those who pledged their loyalty to Lucifer. And Nietzsche’s unbelief may have contributed to his nervous breakdown. Yet Nietzsche’s lack of faith may have resulted in no support when he brilliantly pulled away the illusions of all philosophy. Unlike Nietzsche, I would be led by the Spirit to say it is time to, “Let our souls magnify the Lord” -- and realize there are no borders, especially when we blow into the sails of another's boat.
Tesla once said, "If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." Replace hatred with chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility and light up the world for our Lord. This is what authentic free energy is all about -- this is the true meaning of Nietzsche’s Ubermensch..
"If your chastity could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
"If your temperance could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
"If your charity could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
"If your diligence could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
"If your patience could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
"If your kindness could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
"If your humility could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
Thanks very much for this excellent video. You highlighted the key points brilliantly. Is there a way to find a transcript or written version of what you said in this video? Thank you.
My interpretation is that the Ubermensch is not a saint or a person who will profess or try to convince the crowd of his values. But a person who despite the crowd and their values (that he rejects) is bold enough to create his own set of values and live by them, without trying to start a movement. Furthermore I think "these values" are highly personal and there can be multiple different types of ubermensch persons, that have widely different values. The key is that these values are self-generated and a result of one's own reflections.
I absolutely f*cking love nietzsche, he is by far my favourit philosopher.
He sees the world pretty much exactly as i do, he is just far more capable of putting it into words.
Acceptance of unavoidable nihilism but way too much optimism to see demise because of it.
A clear vision of our potential but far from thinkting that humanity is a sacret masterrace that needs to seek domination over everything.
I think nietzsche is perfectly balancing on the line between good and evil.
He is extreme enaugh in his views to shake the world to it's core but he is not an extremist fanatic who would shed blood over it.
Everyone has the potential to become the child of a lion and a camel.
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love your demeanour and the things you decide to focus on
Interestingly enough, I’m realizing that there’s an isekai fantasy books series (He Who Fights With Monsters) which explores in a fantastical context what an example of an ubermensche would be and dives into the philosophical issues and difficulties with the process of becoming one 🤯. Highly recommend reading it, the MC literally overcomes god(s) and creates his own moral system, going through the difficult process of having his principles go through trial by fire
Fascinating stuff. Have you heard of "Kaizen" and "Continuous-Improvement" from Lean production?
If we run towards our problems & fix them (or at least summon up effective counter-measures), things improve. People's mood lightens. The culture shifts.
Thank you for this!
The channel owner looks eerily like the guy from Cabanel's "Fallen Angel" painting, stare, haircut and all.
I don’t care what people say, but that man was a genius! 🔥❤
Oh also besides praising your superb presentation and transcripts I do wish you had citations so we could follow up your interpretations with the exact text you draw them from
These videos are great! Please keep it up
I have really enjoyed your channel. Just lately discovered you. Cheers
The most interesting thing about philosophy is the way you perceive it as you age.
What a great video. I didn't know anything about Nietzsche so this has been a great introduction. It's surprisingly similar to how I see the world, so it's nice to know an academic was here first.
As I see it the ubermench is your view of the world rather than the view of everyone's world.
In my world, I am God. This makes sense to me as when I am dead, my world will dissappear so if I can't control what happens in my world, what's the point?
You have the power to make your life comfortable and contented because happiness is also a false goal. Happiness is the peak of your feelings which can only be turned into depression. Aim to live in the middle!
Anyway, I'll spend some time looking through your videos and thanks for creating them.
Doesnt the description of the ubermensch sound like the description of various prophets in history? Not sure if I'm making a fair comparison, but here is my shot:
Like excluding the god angle, you can argue that budda, mohammed, christ, etc kinda fit the mold of the 3 requirements, where they were strong enough to bear the world (camel), whose beliefs and stength destroyed previous traditions and were called madmen by thier detractors and traditionalists of the time (tiger), and whome after all that built up thier own systems of morality with a mostly life afferming messege (child) ?
These prophets did also tend to appear during times where religiosity was low with old traditions also being in question too, similar to the modern day in some way
As a survivor of early life violence. It took me 45 years to dig deep into Nietzsche. And I’ve lived a life in 3 countries .. multiple languages.. cultures … and decades of mental and spiritual work. You must be ready before you make critical judgment errors. Because is life changing but there’s a path to follow. Just like a F1 car. You can’t just jump. You need to know before it. It takes decades. Nietzsche is 100% on point on the “Superman”
In the camel analogy, the camel is like an icon for self-improvement based on human purpose and meaning. A camel doesn't seek to be rode, but is sought.
U made this philosopher very accessible. Great advice excepting the purposeful deliberate seeking of suffering. Obviously it's inevitable, and to accept it as strengthening is an empowering idea. But to relish it? He was an unrealized masochist.
I Don't think Nietzche thought that the overman was a means to an end, but infinitely far away goal to forever strive towards, given the broader context of his thought. He agreed with Heraclitus that the world was an ever-living fire, ever changing. He used evolution as a metaphor for the overman, which itself is not a means to an end of some finalized supreme lifeform, but, like the ever-living fire, forever changing into forms that can not only grow stronger but also weaker. Evolution and cultural History is not a straight ascending line perpetually improving, but capable of decadence. I think the whole idea that the overman can ever be reached goes against Zarathustra's teachings. One section I have in mind is the marketplace with the tightrope walker when Zarathustra speaks of the hour of great contempt. "The hour in which your happiness, too, arouses your disgust, and even your reason and your virtue". To say the overman can be reached, or to claim it has been reached, is that "poverty and filth and wretched contentment". The overman itself is something to be continually overcome to a further, higher, overman. Remember how Nietzche made the comparison that the ape is the laughing stalk of man, and that man would be a laughing stalk to the overman in the same way? The overman itself will be a laughing stalk to itself--the overoverman. Noone can reach these higher forms of beings he talked about in a lifetime. But they are the arrows of longing. they are to be shot at, and like an arrow, eventually decline and fall back to earth.
Thank your realy much. That I think was the one point I didn't get about Nitzsche und struggled to understand for a long time.