How To Live A Good Life - Friedrich Nietzsche (Existentialism)
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- In this video we will talk about how to live a good life from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the main precursors of existentialism and emphasised on the importance of putting our will in the actions we take in life and how to make the best out of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who lived in the second half of the 19th century.
He was physically sick most of his life and spent his last years almost unconscious due to a mental breakdown. In spite of this, he gave great insights into the world of human psychology, including what it means to live a ‘good life’. For him, a good life does not mean comfort and pleasure, it means mainly a life in which you live authentically and freely, following your own values and aspirations. To help you understand how to live a good life, here are 9 lessons we can learn from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche:
01. Focus on real life
02. Live a meaningful life
03. Follow your own life goals
04. Keep your mind open
05. Take care of your body
06. Embrace your “evil” qualities
07. Consume art
08. Cultivate friendship especially in romantic relationships
09. Be patient with your self-growth
We hope you enjoyed watching these 9 ways on living a good life from the philosophy of Friedrich and hope this video helps you live a good life.
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, poet, essayist, and cultural critic. He is considered to be one of the most daring and greatest thinkers of all time. His writings on truth, morality, language, aesthetics, cultural theory, history, nihilism, power, consciousness, and the meaning of existence have exerted an enormous influence on Western philosophy and intellectual history. He was one of the biggest precursors of existentialism, which emphasises the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent, determining their own development through acts of will. By his famous words “God is dead!”, Nietzsche moved the focus of philosophy from metaphysics to the material world and to the individual as a responsible person for his own life. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote several books like The Birth of a Tragedy, Human, All Too Human, The Dawn, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, The Will to Power, The Antichrist, and many more. His teachings have shaped the lives of many people; from psychologists to poets, dancers to social revolutionaries.
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Friedrich Nietzsche says: “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages”.
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I agree
Appreciate your efforts 🎉🎉
Profoundly agree.
God lives and works through men's and women's hearts. ❤
To the *worthwhile person* seeing this, your dream is not dead. Don’t allow the past and current pains and hurts stop and define you. You’re more than a conqueror. Rise up and put yourself together. Keep pushing your future depends on it. I wish you all the best in life ❤️.
Thank you for writing this. I needed the encouragement and you said the exactly words. Peace to you.
Same to you kind soul x
Very timely, thank you stranger.
Keep running the good race, it’s the only worthwhile fight there is!
U 2
I'm starting to study philosophy and it's so great & life changing, I would totally recommend it to my friends & anyone else.
Why does it feel to me that Nietzsche and myself would have a meaningful conversation? This dude makes so much sense to me.
I just adore the mind of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Thx
@@friedrichnietzsche2557hey frieddy
I have been a major fan of Nietzsche, I have his books, I seem to understand what he meant, but why the break down? That I can't understand, because if you DO UNDERSTAND, the issues are just life and death. Did he believe his own work? Peace be unto you.
"What's important in our relationships is the way we communicate, the quality of our conversations"
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This is quite an interesting video with great content, thanks for sharing.....
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I love listening to these videos as I get ready to sleep.
Best Friedrich nietcherson video I’ve found
Thank you for support!
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Yo Nietzsche, what up playboy
Hey man cut the mustache for once
WOW! I feel more enthusiastic about reading him now. I didnt know he was grounded in giving the body the reigns to allow one's world to unfold. Very empowering.
@@Johnconno i know he says more than just that
A superbly crafted overview. It gave me a clear understandingbofvthe man, thank you very much. Lovely graphics too.
Great video, thank you!
This is the best video yet!
💗 seeing life with a different way
Found this animated and stimulating presentation on the German philosopher captivating! Personally useful as well. Alejandro
thanks! long live Nietzsche!
Awesome love this philosophy 👌🏽 TY 😊
Pls make a video about philosophy of Martin Heidegger next.
I love listening to videos like this, but deep down I know that there's no separate "me" that has ever chosen anything.
Thanks
Awesomeness
If you neglect to help others who need help... in the proper way... you will suffer... always help people... service is the number 1 key to a happy life...
but funny how he knew about the solution to all his problems but still not be able to heal himself and let himself die... I understand though cuz I'm the same...
Thank you so much for this video, I'm very glad to know that there is another person who thinks the same as me..
It only feels good... when you do the right thing...
Please post more videos about
- Philosopher king
- Aristotle Rhetoric
- Cicero (On the Ideal Orator)
Best 👍
Amen
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For every flower of charity and love...planted in our neighbors garden... an undesirable weed disappears from our own...😇😇
It's the crucial insights that he _didn't_ have that concern me.
cool.
I love nietsche.
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More wisdom in your body then in your deepest philosophy.
however he is so sick last years of his life, did he take care of his body well. So pity :(
Getting unhealthy is not because we eat to much, the cause is our lack of will to live( 12.20 ).
Video needs an edit of green script around 9:12: "Interpratation"
A good life in daily it's has a direction things like activities , interaction to person or community beside focus on a real life without those things I think don't has a good life .. But with all those things In my opinion we have a meaning of life but don't become a superhuman .. Cause a person need like self actually , Proud of ourselves , feeling peaceful , and love from family , fisiology needed instead .. Thanks ..
Facing reality is to recognize the paranormal.
"Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the philosophers with the most potential in the whole world, not only in the West, not only in Germany. His insights are significant for everybody. But he was misunderstood by all his contemporaries.
That's the usual fate of every genius.
It is almost routine, not an exception but a rule, that the genius is bound to be misunderstood by his contemporaries, for the simple reason that he is far ahead of his time. So there is always a revival after the death of a genius. It may take one hundred years, two hundred years, but a genius always has a revival.
It is unfortunate that by the time people start understanding him, he is no more. And he suffers the misunderstandings all around him his whole life. He lives almost alone, with no communication with his contemporaries; and by the time he is being understood, he is no more. He never comes to know the people who will understand him.
So it was absolutely certain that Friedrich Nietzsche would have a great revival, and his words and his insights would be echoed all over the world - not only in the world of philosophy, but in the world of religion, morality, aesthetics. Whatever he touched, he always brought something absolutely new to it.
And that's the trouble - because for thousands of years people have understood a thing in a certain way. When a person like Nietzsche turns all the tables - which centuries have founded - and alone, single-handedly, fights against the whole past, it is a very difficult situation - and more so for a Western philosopher who has no understanding of meditation.
He naturally gets very frustrated. It is bound to bring him insanity - the misunderstanding of the people. Everybody misunderstands him. In the world full of millions of people, there is not a single person with whom he can have a heart-to-heart contact, communion. He is in a desert - it drives him mad. That's what happened with Nietzsche.
He lived a life of immense frustration, because he was giving great insights to the world; and in return - only condemnation. He was bringing new light - and not a single friendly response.... Even his friends were not friendly about his philosophical approaches. That finally drove Nietzsche to madness; he died a madman.
His death in madness is a condemnation of the whole Western approach. In the East people have been misunderstood, but because there was an underlying meditative silence and peace and contentment, and a deep understanding that this is just how things are - they are bound to be misunderstood - there was a natural acceptance of it. They were not frustrated, they were not angry; they were not going insane or committing suicide.
But in the West it has been almost always the situation with every great philosopher - the misunderstanding from all corners, from all dimensions, and the deep expectation of the person of being understood. He is not a meditator; he cannot accept the situation of misunderstanding, that it is natural, that he cannot do anything about it, that he will be understood when the time is ripe.
He will not be here.... But it does not matter whether he is understood or not: he is perfectly contented that whatever is true to him he is giving to the world. Now it is up to the world when to understand, or not to understand it. He is not dependent in any way on the response of people.
But Western philosophy, Western religion both have missed the quality of meditation. And that creates a new thing. When a man like Nietzsche goes mad, the enemies, who are all around - the people who misunderstood him and drove him mad - take advantage of the situation of his being mad. They start saying that it is his philosophy which is basically wrong, that has driven him mad.
His madness becomes a proof that he is a wrong man - that he is not only mad today, he has always been mad. Whatever he has said is insane. So it becomes a more solid ground on which to refute the person completely, to erase him completely - and that's what happened with Nietzsche.
But a revival was certain. You cannot continue to misunderstand something which has even a little bit of truth in it - and Nietzsche has tremendous insights. If they can all be understood, it will help the Western mind to change many things.
For example, Nietzsche was the only one - even in his madness he would not sign his name without writing over his signature "Antichrist." Even in his madness that much was absolutely certain to him: that he was anti-Christ, that Christ has created a tradition which is immensely dangerous to humanity, that he has polluted the human mind, even about small things.
Where Christ had always been praised, people were surprised that Nietzsche would find a very solid criticism. For example, when Christ says, "If somebody slaps you on one cheek, give him the other too," Nietzsche was the first man to say that this is an insult to the man who has slapped you.
Now, it needs a certain intelligence to understand what he is saying. He is saying, in giving him the other cheek you are reducing him to subhumanity; you are becoming a god. Behave like a human being: give him a good slap the way he has given you one.
And the argument that looked very strange to the Christians who were his contemporaries, was very simple: "In this way you are proving equality. 'I am also a human being. If you hit me, then I will hit you. I am not a god, I cannot forgive you.' All those who have been trying to forgive are very subtle egoists. They are enjoying reducing the other person almost to an animal. That is worse than hitting the man back hard! Just behave like man to man."
And you can watch it: the person who gives his other cheek - you can see in his eyes and in his face and in his words great pride and great ego. Even when Jesus himself on the cross asks, "Father, forgive these people, because they do not understand what they are doing," he is still trying to prove on the cross the same thing for which he is being crucified - that everybody is ignorant and only he knows.
Again, it was the insight of Nietzsche to see that Jesus' emphasis is not on forgiveness, his emphasis is, "They do not know what they are doing. They do not know whom they are crucifying. They do not understand that they are crucifying the only begotten son of God." In simple words, "These are idiots. Just forgive them - they are not worth punishment."
Even on the cross his ego is as assertive as it has ever been. He is not a humble man. Although he teaches humility, he never shows humility in his whole life. Then certainly his teaching of humility is just the teaching for making your ego so subtle that it can use humility as food, as nourishment.
He is certainly not a humble man. There is no indication in his whole life of where he has acted in a humble manner.
All his declarations that he is the messiah for whom you have been waiting for centuries, that now God has sent his own son to fulfill the promise.... These are not the words of humility, these are not the words of a person who is nobody.
Jesus is not nobody - he is higher than everybody else. Even the prophets, Moses or Abraham or Elijah, are nothing; they are only prophets, just messengers. He is the only begotten son of God, and he says clearly that he was even before Abraham.
Now, Abraham was alive almost three thousand years before Jesus; and Jesus is saying he was before Abraham. He is trying to say that he belongs to eternity, he is eternal, and all these prophets are just bubbles in time. He has always been and will always be - but prophets come and go.
Nietzsche is the only man in the whole Western history who has a deep psychological understanding of Jesus Christ, and who has a very subtle analysis - far more subtle than any Freud or Jung can do. He has almost all the insights. He could have founded psychoanalysis. He could have founded communism. He could have founded anarchism.
He is really vast, and in all dimensions he goes to the very roots. But people have understood one thing for thousands of years, and then suddenly there is a totally opposite interpretation. Rather than accepting the interpretation, they would prefer to reject the man. And he was rejected by the society in every possible way. He lived almost always lonely.
His writing is also very prophetic, even the method. He does not write in the ordinary way philosophers have been writing down the ages, his writing is aphoristic. You can make a whole philosophy out of one paragraph, it is so condensed. And the man had so much to say that he could not manage to elaborate it himself, so he has just put it in the most condensed form. Just the method of his expression was making him a laughingstock in the eyes of other philosophers who were trained to write in a certain logical manner, giving every proof and every argument.
But Nietzsche has to say so much that he cannot go into details of the arguments and procedures of how he has arrived - he simply writes the conclusion, and that conclusion is aphoristic. He then moves to another subject; and he goes on moving that way.
But I love the way he writes. That should be ultimately the way of writing. If people are intelligent you need not go through all the arguments before you give the conclusion; just the conclusion should be enough. If they are sharp and intelligent they will immediately get all the preceding arguments that are not given to them; there is no need...."
Maybe something from modern psychologists?
Will to live this life and accept our animal nature. Embrace your evil qualities as our best qualities.
it is so predictable that he would dismantled his sanity by dismantling absolute truth.
some things are getting smuggled in concerning women that nietzsche would not advocate.
I think the creator made it pretty clear that what nietzsche is critical of is the otherworldliness of closed doctrines. and in this sense nietzsche thought the philosophy of the future would be an overturned platonism. but from a slightly different perspective but altogether disparate i can see a confusion arising regarding the single minded focus on reality since nietzsche wants you to give birth to a dancing star. focusing on the chaos in oneself is going to make others think you are preoccupied with things that perhaps they are unaware of. its a fine line between on the one hand not straying too far from tradition and not becoming a slave to the tradition.
I can’t get past his stance on women as incapable of truth, having no uneducatability, likening us to cats and birds, and that allowing us an equality in the world to be a regressive step. His dictates for a good life are prescribed specifically for men with aristocratic and superior will. His doctrine is that might is right, and that society should prioritize only the preservation and happiness of these men, and nothing else. No one else is of any consequence in his utopia, and only exist to serve the supermen. There is a reason the Nazis loved Nietzsche.
Sounds like the opinion of a woman who can’t grasp his writings.
@@bena8055 really. Bertrand Russell had similar opinions. He had a penis.
That is indeed abominable, unfortunately. I was ignorant of that.
His stance towards women was partly sour grapes.
Exactly. Love him
It's a great error in judgement to think we are merely physical beings... there is more to us than that...
Life is not for everyone 😞
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oh, god...
Why does everyone who does these videos have a English accent?
look on the bright side....
What is a good life?
Oh, life. Amor fati through 40-yr Amortizatied house loan.
A healthy person is a happy person... a nice person has the best life... its not weak to be nice.... in fact the nicest person is the toughest person... 😆😆
"Even if there were no God... religion would still be both saintly and divine..." Charles Bourdelaire
If there are no facts, what does it even mean to seek truth?
He was pointing out that what we call "facts" are simply our interpretations of our sense impressions. To seek truth, then, is to get as close as we can to understanding reality, given these limitations. Is a limited understanding worthless just because it's based on provisional interpretations? Not at all! Advances in science, technology, medicine, and overall human quality of life prove that even limited understanding can be useful.
@@JimSting What does it mean to have a limited understanding? To what extent can we understand reality if we can at all?
How does one know he is closer or further from reality in his interpretations if none of our interpretations are truly factual?
In other words, aren't all interpretations equally false in a sense according to this logic?
Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the greatest philosopher in history He didn't just give us teachings but He proved that He is the way the truth and the life. I pray for everyone to get to know Him. 🙌
Too much bass brother
16:30
For neitzsche Wagner sold out
He was right about most things but wrong about women
How
@@topman8565 He was too much of a romantic and got hung up on one woman for too long.
If he'd realized that women ALSO exercise their own will to power, he'd have cast off those romantic notions and not let ot eat him up so badly. It also, ironically, would have made him more attractive to women, because women love men that don't give a fuck.
How? study, reading, Nietzsche, Plato, Jung, Kierkgaard, etc, I have 500++ bks with another 100++ on wish list, Study gives us foundation stones whereby we house Gods spirit that transforms us.
studystudystudystudystudy
Wow, read about Advaita (non-dualism or monism) Hindu Philosophy please. Looks like Nietzsche had read Advaita hindu philosophy and rewrote those for western audience. Lot of Indic work has always been copied by the western folks. Mathematics, philosophy, ancient science, etc all have some link emanating from India yet West does not give any credit to India or even mention about India. West avoids India like an untouchable....lol such inferiority complex.
E Michael Jones was a gatekeeper against Nietzsche.
Mental brakedown ,,, beyond good and evil? Have a good life. ? Contradiction
A selfish life is not a happy life.,."Honour the gods... love your woman... defend your country..!" Troy (movie)
Nietzsche’s breakdown of thought is that he failed to see meaning in true worship of self. It was what bankrupted his later life. Rejection of the moral standards established by Jesus and a relationship with Him, always leads to happiness derived from addiction which is never satisfied. Goodness found in the Kingdom of Heaven is righteous, peaceful, and full of joy.
How the freak would Nietzsche know how to live a good life?
If God is dead that means we are all gods.
If his last few years were almost unconscious due to a mental breakdown, why should anyone listen to his advice? It clearly didn’t work for him
Maybe do a little research as to what actually was the cause of his cognitive decline before coming to such a conclusion, it was nothing to do with his philosophical beliefs.
No body said you have to listen to his advice they are there for those who are willing to think and change their lives and knowing one-self better.
He had a mental breakdown due to witnessing a tragic, traumatic event. It's like getting mad at a veteran for having PTSD.
@@BOSSDONMAN that wouldn't put you in the vegative state that he ended up in. It looks as though it was structural damage to the brain via syphilis, a stroke or a brain tumour... those are more likely what led to his early demise.
Because it is possible to separate the message from the messenger. The message is that, with sufficient will, one can work to improve oneself and thereby one's life. I can't think of any context where doing so would be a bad thing. Put another way: what is there to lose by improving oneself?
Rule number 1: don’t do anything idiotic philosophers like Nietzsche and the like say
Why. Fake anime pfp
@@topman8565 what does that have to do with what I’m saying?