Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals | Strength, Will, Being, and Act | Philosophy Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Friedrich Nietzsche's classic work of existentialist literature, Genealogy of Morals, specifically on chapter 13 of the first essay, where he sets out some of his reflections about force or strength, willing, being, action, potentiality, and reality, and how he feels they are misapplied to the strong/good by the bad/weak, so that they can label the strong as evil and themselves as good.
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Speaking for myself, it is good to seek challenges to develop and grow. It is also good to work out for this same reason. But if I make my choice, as I want freedom from domination and self-discipline to manage myself well in order to live a good life and I would want that for others as well. Thus, I would not want to dominate others. And I don't.(or as little as possible). One does need to express (behave) ones nature. But when I look at people, i do not see eagles and lambs. I see people. Regarding there being no being beyond ("within") doing, effecting...this is the core of N's nihilism( and the "will to power"). If there is no self, he can't have self-respect. He can't do it alone. He needs to make a spectacle of his self-respect, and needing an audience shows really how needy he is. IF he needs to find opposition then he is reactionary. A truly strong character doesn't need to find an object to test and grow his limits. He would simply grow and be authentic. N is the great seducer , a siren. He is very good at "defacing the currency". To be, authentically, is power. Call it Spinoza's connatus, n's "will to power", or whatever. Silence is not being bottled up. Silence is an expression of power where a high degree of completion and understanding has been achieved. Charlatans can mimic and sell silence. Seek what's true. Good lecture. N is very interesting. Thank you.
I wouldn't say that Nietzsche is a nihilist. In fact, he views that as the main thing to combat pretty consistently.
And he does think that there is self that has developed over time - one that is quite complex, and generally misunderstands itself, right?
@@GregoryBSadler He is combating nihilism all the time...his answer is the YEA saying and the eternal reoccurrence (maybe like how eagles like everything...themselves and the little lambs). But I think nihilism was an existential issue that plagued him his entire life. Why would he solve a problem....if it wasn't his?
@@GregoryBSadler If I understand him properly....there are no selves, just one big will to power. All relations, and no substance. But I should go back and read him. The great yes saying is like winning the whole "totality".
@@MrMarktrumble Well as I think you know, he sees it not just as his issue, but as the central problem for the coming century - that's everyone
@@GregoryBSadler why is the idea of the self so important to people?
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Sir would this be a fair explanation and expansion on this point
There is no being (subject) behind the doing (verb)
To illustrate his point, Nietzsche takes as an example the sentence "lightning flashes." Grammar would lead us to conclude that there is a subject--"lightning"--and a predicate--"flashes." But what is the lightning if not the flash? Nietzsche argues that grammar, and only grammar, has led us to think of actions in terms of subjects and predicates. In reality, he suggests, "'the doer' is merely a fiction added to the deed--the deed is everything."
Grammar has thus led us to think of a bird of prey as somehow separate from its expressions of strength, and thereby free either to kill or not to kill. On the contrary, Nietzsche suggests, the bird of prey is the strength is the killing. The lamb's morality is in no position to hold the bird of prey accountable for killing: that would be equivalent to blaming it for existing.
Gilles Deleuze interprets Nietzsche as suggesting that nothing exists but forces. We might simplify Deleuze's analysis by suggesting that only verbs truly exist: nouns and subjects are just the conveniences of grammar. While we might talk about a bird of prey killing a lamb, really there is just one force acting upon another. Of course, using "force" as a noun is a mistake, as it simply substitutes one noun for another.
there is no bird of prey independent of its will
Furthermore, 7:57 would it be correct to say that Nietzsche believes in will just not free will
It is rather our will to power, our will to dominate and how far we can achieve this will is dependent upon how best we can dominate.
Really love following Nietzsche unroll his argument throughout this book. Always good to listen to you unpack his books like this. Definitely makes his arguments clearer and helps me see things I missed. As always you are fine job, thank you
He's certainly an interesting thinker