StandardProceduree.... Word up!!... Im so glad i learned this... Now i have a better understanding, more knowledge of my nature, and i am therefore more powerful... This feels good.... Its also great to actualize that its in fact also growth...( power is absolutely not limited to the negative connotation it has been condemned to... Its MU CH MUCH more....) I can now self actualize my nature, become more aware (powerful) with/of it, justify or support it( which feels good because it suits my wills end goal towards power, because i can not even just excuse it, but feel inclined towards it, as it lies under neathe conciousness, it will persist and express itself in many different ways, and its my responsibility to direct that will and energy in a positive way, use it for good, and attempt to make the world a better place ( just as super heros uses super powers ) ( IT FEELS SO GREAT HAVING HAD LEARNED THIS)
But does it really matter ? I mean, in nietzschean teachings, greed ought to be considered as good. I think to be true to his teachings, Nietzsche should have said 'The Will to Power is Greed. The Will to power is Growth. Greed is Growth''
@@francoislechanceux5818 There is an importance difference. When one thinks of greed... by what equation is greed and growth related in a positive manner? There are many tales I'm sure involving growth of a person while the not adhering to greed (if anything the greed of characters prevents them from growing, greed brings forth the antithesis of growth: stagnation). If anything the second part of the equation is suffering, the Buddha's encounter with suffering is the impetus for that man to become the Buddha for example, where is the greed in this moment a great change, a great growth, took place? Nowhere at all. Greed in its original sense involves the obtaining and hoarding of riches; personally it would be more likely to find a Last Man with greed then the Ubermensch, they probably already have said riches or don't care about it. They certainly wouldn't have it tied to their self worth as how a greedy person would.
"consciousness does not cause actions, it merely accompanies them." This man was so far ahead of his time. Even now who is talking about free will and determinism being a false dichotomy?
@@fierypickles4450 He thinks both are illusions.That is because both free will and determinism accept axiomatically the consepts of "object" and "subject",which Kant and Schopenhauer proved to be false.There are no "borders" between things.All is one.One big "happening" and consciousness accompanies it.Consiousness doesn't just create freely nor does it just receive passivelly the world.Rather, it has a transactional relashionship to it.For example:when you look at a red aple you have no choice but to see the colour "red" and the consept of "aple".However, both the colour and the consept of the aple are created by you.There isn't such a thing as "red" or "aple" outside of a human brain.In order to have a "red aple" you need a consiousness to percieve it.So counsiousness both receives data AND creates the perceived world simultaneously.
"we appear to those who cannot fly" It clearly says that we appear smaller to others hence he is thinking of how non flyers think, of how the flyers appear to the ones who are not able to "fly". Yes he cares and there is other examples you just don"t know how to look objectively yet to see that he is the one who could not soar.
Willsulla Dionysius Kidd It's one of only two such videos I've become aware of. The other one is Galen Strawson's talk that can be found here called 'Nietzsche's metaphysics'.
Everyone uses him in his own context (which i do not disapprove so much). Thats a difference between the rest and the scholars who actually study and want to know what this man meant.= independently of their mental framework. I enjoy reading various philosophers but when it comes to applying it in your own ideas i'll let people who study them as their life profession to do the talking.
+SuckYourBone *Scholars are only salaried servants of the political power of their time, they doesn't live on clouds: and the political power that rule the world today is progressive and capitalist liberalism* , *i.e. a system that is trotskist-leftwinger in culture (Permanent Revolution) and anarcho-capitalist in economy (the heart of modern civilization is Wall Street)* . Basically Locke and Montesquieu + Trotsky. *Great free thinkers and philosophers that fought all their life against 'Modernity', 'Democracy', 'Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité' and 'Liberalism' like Nietzsche and Heidegger are depicted as 'Egalitarians in reality', 'Humanitarians and Humanists', 'Christians', 'antecedents of Pope Francis' etc., and 'scholars' are nothing more than the obedient servants that deform these great anti-modern philosophers. They and journalists are the 'Oratores' (clergy class) of postmodernity* . Nietzsche and Schopenhauer wrote clearly about the true nature of 'academic philosophy'.
Marco Dellorusso I expect he would certainly have troubles with the abbrasiveness of some of his ideas, the iccorrigible pessemist that he was. Still, both men were first rank geniuses, and I would have loved to know what he might have had to say to Nietzsche's philosophy!
This is some dangerous thinking, but I can’t deny the truth in it. I agree more with Aristotle on this subject: that happiness is the point of everything, seeing as an individual will give up anything to attain happiness, yet once having acquired happiness, an individual will take nothing in exchange for that happiness-not even power, unless they believe they might gain yet more happiness from this power. Even power is useless without fulfillment and joy. Power is only a means to happiness; happiness is king, not power.
mahmud rizve: It’s not that I can’t stomach it, it’s just that a philosopher of Aristotle’s caliber differed from Nietzsche. Upon further observation, I can see how one can’t be happy without being powerful, or having relative power over oneself (personal liberty). Nietzsche described the will to power as the freedom to be what we truly are, without obstacles. This definition is almost the same as happiness, or freedom. The two philosophers seem to describe the same thing.
Man, I’m reading this book right now and I feel honoured to have the opportunity to know what Nietzche identified. It’s truths are so deep in my thoughts that it’s genuinely physically satisfying to realize them.
You have a talent for setting a clear and lucid explanation of a philosophy to music and using imagery to set a mood. There mite be a market for these type of videos.
Prudence, as well as other virtues, always has an alterior motive based on a higher purpose. Out of all modern philosophers Nietzsche came closest to identifying what it is according to nature.
Thank you so much for this video. I started reading "Beyond Good and Evil", and Nietzsche writes in such an interesting way, it is actually a page turner. But I had trouble understanding exactly what he was saying. I found myself able to recall a lot of the ideas you brought up, so you put everything into beautiful context for me. Thank you.
'The possibility of finding some substitutions for the lost God by means of the most varied forms of self-idolization constituted the story of [Nietzsche's] mind, his works and his illness ... In its tortured quest, the yearning for God becomes a drive for God-creation, and that of necessity had to express itself in self-deification.' - Lou Salomé
Ontologistics this music accompaniment and comprehensiveness of this video was awesome. You should do all of your videos in this format!!! Btw loved the game of thrones track, which one was it?
Love the videos on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Right now I'm reading Zarathustra...and I'm moved by the metamorphosis chapter of man bearing the burden like unto a Camel who carries his burden alone, and thru suffering he becomes a lion which slays the dragon of old ideals. And then is reborn into a child. Good stuff, carry on my good sir...
The way I see it is a developmental direction of a world where everyone is a completely autonomous individual, such that there can be no controllers or controlled, because everyone has developed great power to overcome any physical limitation imposed by others, so no one COULD be controlled or control, and also great unique contribution of their own art to the whole.
I think the will to power at the end tries to maintain it’s survival by making it more difficult to be destroyed and cease to exist, thus, the will to survive encompasses the final purpose of the will to power as well as its most basic form.
Society today strives for preservation not change. Pleasure and not hunger for greatness. Through history the elite ruled and had a lot of time on their hand, they experienced all the pleasures of the flesh then sought more deeper pleasure. The pleasure of charting the unknown, new. So they funded science and exploration. The masses are getting to know these pleasures but don't show a hint of desire to evolve. I say the will to power is the will to explore and evolve - change, not preservation.
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I have always asserted that "the will to power" is secondary to "the will to be." The real goal is 'to be' or simply "is" in the heideggerian sense. The "will to power" is merely a tool to this end.
Then how do you explain self sacrifice? Humans frequently sacrifice their wellbeing, years of their life, and existence to make an impact. The “will to power” trumps “the will to exist”.
I love Nietzsche but when you compare it to Schopenhauer he has no chance. Schopenhauer its just pure brilliancy and brutal honesty. Anyone who had read the world as will and representation will understand. Who agrees??
"Believe nothing you hear and only one half of what you see." Schopenhauer would have made a world class poker player as well as a philosopher on the highest rungs of Mt. Olympia. The philosophy of Schopenhauer works in poker and works in real life. Nietzsche though did his mentor proud by adding a hierarchy to the will. This video highlights how profound and paradigm shifting was Nietzsche's full spectrum analysis of life's battlefield, chess match, poker game, video game matrix, choose your metaphor. Nietzsche may have solved the Rubix Cube of life's puzzle in connecting philosophy and "truth quests" with power and sun generated energy that clearly drives life. All captured with Nietzsche's Navy Seal front line focus and precision force of his "powerful," heralded writing style. Schopenhauer, as senior commander would have for sure toasted Nietzsche with Dom Perignon for his savant brilliance, and Navy Seal like battlefield awareness against the university hollow men philosophers, and awarded Nietzsche his Navy Seal trident for advancing philosophy a thousand years by the paradigm shifting work of the ages, WTP. Never thought at univ Plato could even be challenged with his epochal writings, but Schopenhauer and his protege Nietzsche took the game to the next level. So, yes, Schopenhauer is the mentor for sure, and Nietzsche did his senior commander Navy Seal proud by becoming with WTP "the philosopher for the day after tomorrow." TY, for your astute Schopenhauer gratitude.
How decisive the individual is to pluralize itself - organic labyrinths. . . nicely structured in a well of thought. . . Great stuff! Life is strident in every direction. The gain is realistic only when the individual wants it in perception! A type of poetry for you!
Nietzsche believed that Life, as opposed to dead concepts of Truth or God, was a necessary move away from ideals, but is actually, due to his will, the act of idealizing Life. The mind cannot escape its idealizing tendencies, and thus Nietzsche committed himself to the negation of ideals, which in itself is a disguised ideal, and in doing so turned his dedication to his philosophy into the same type of faith that theologians have in God, one that is infinitely powerful, imperfect, and recurring.
Thanks a lot for the video. There were a couple of points I was a little hazy on after reading several of his pieces of writing for an essay, and this really helped me fill in those gaps.
I have read it, yes - and there's an interesting trinity there, as you write. However, my next video will most probably be about the metaphysics of Henri Bergson.
I'm afraid you are very mistaken: if you watch the video, you'll see I quote passages about the 'Will to Power' from published works (e.g. Beyond Good & Evil §36) as well as the Nachlass (notebooks). Moreover, as with all writers, those notes were used in his published works. Furthermore, Nz started out as a Schopenhauerian whose central tenet was the Will to Survive. So from the start, the Will featured centrally - though it developed solidly into the Will to Power as his work matured.
Excellent as always - not having read as much Nietzsche as I've read the other panthelists (von Hartmann, Bahnsen, Mainländer), it is very useful to have overview like this - especially to see the very close relations of the views of Bahnsen and Nietzsche.
+Ontologistics I don't see how that phrase "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" can be fully true. People who are paralysed weren't killed but there didn't get stronger. Also my mother got multiple sclerosis and for three years she completely deteriorated before finally dying. I don't see how she got stronger... I agree that phrase is true in some cases, but not all of them.
The full quote is "Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." Not all of what Nietzsche writes is to be taken literal. It is like in Thus Spoke Zarathustra in section "On War and Warriors" in which Zarathustra says "let your peace be a victory".
Plato's Form (eidos) of the Good, i.e. objective good, is found in a number of his works, notably The Republic. Nietzsche prefaces BGE by noting that his work is a 'struggle against Plato': 'of all errors thus far, the most grievous, protracted, and dangerous has been a dogmatist's error: Plato's invention of pure spirit and of transcendental goodness.'
Absolutely incredible, I too will have to watch it a few times to grasp all this information! I am a newbie to to the world of philosophy, but I have taken to it like glue!!
it's more apparent when you consider that he was applying newton's laws to the ideas of genetics..you have a force away from death (survival) and would then need another force against that for it not to place a focus on power --which would be more coded in that design if there were a benefit
Ty, for your thought provoking post. When convenient, could you perhaps expand on your profound observation. Trying to get my head around your scientific examples, and want to make sure follows your line of thinking. This WTP summary yt video is amazing how it crystallizes the essence of Nietzsche's pivotal, paradigm breaking work. Best Regards, look forward to your response when convenient all in the quest for "truth" and full spectrum awareness.
As Nietzsche mentioned in "Beyond good and evil" everything is someone's interpretation. Greed as you describe is only your own interpretation. It doesn't have to agree with my understanding of it because everyone has their own impulses and desires thoughts feelings.. Nowadays we are bound together like pigs that are waiting to be slaughtered. We are all individuals and so it is not even questionable that you can make a category of good and evil, disdain, benevolence. It is ours own interpretation. I think people have only a real value when acting on their own impulses and desires.
Its all so fascinating I think. You can call someone greedy, but in all reality, you are using pathos (most likely trying to trigger an emotional response not logic) to attack an enemy for your own power. This cycle continues forever and ever. An organism will use all tools at their disposal to gain power. Nietzsche called Christianity slave morality when it reality it was the master morality of its' day.
Truly great video sums up the essence of Will to Power and Beyond Good and Evil really clearly and using an easy to understand language. As for the content it really describes life as it is on a day to day reality.
Very good anaylsis of Wille Zur Macht - congrats. @Ontologistics, have you read Pierre Klossowski's "Nietzsche and the vicious circle"? I'm particularly interested in how the notions of overman, will to power and eternal recurrence cross themselves in a very coherent way. That's the key to understanding Nietzsche IMO - undestanding the relations between these three notions. Do you plan to make a video on this, or on Eternal Recurrence one day? I noticed this notion is widely misunderstood.
This is addressed in the video, man. Darwin and others believed our purpose was survival. Nietzsche “furthered” this theory by observing that the will to survive is at the lowest level of existence. This will, if thriving or at least, not threatened, will continue with the preeminent will to power. Mankind often takes for granted the fact that he is in a position of power and no longer has to play the game of survival. Survival is damn-near promised in society. Of course we want to survive, homie, but we’re beyond that. We want to dominate. You and I have been born fortunate beneficiaries to the severe undertakings of our ancestors (most of our ancestors being rodents and relatively powerless beings). We inherit this will to power following the will to beings less successful on the planet. This is evolution. I agree both can be right. In the case of man, I believe the will to survival has undeniably grown to the will to power.
The survival of the fittest is not evolution. It's those who pass on their genes who continue the chain of life. Survival alone is meaningless without offspring. One could argue the very act of pursuing a mate is proactive.
The will to power is essential to life, homo sapiens as a species would not have survived without the will to power. Some pre-socratics were correct in underlining the fact that evolution was not merely a survival impulse but a striving for power and dominance. The political philosophy most implicit in the belief in the will to power would be fascism. All of history with its numerous conflicts, oppressive wars and controlling empires gives credence to Nietzsche's world view. Nietzsche as brilliantly exposed the illusions of mankind, together with its utter hypocritical nature.
I don't think that is a problem for Nietzsche. Although I know very little of Nietzsche's philosophy, from what I do know, the "will to power" is not driving the universe, it isn't some grand metaphysics. It specifically pertains to life. He is not saying how life "ought" to be acting, but how it "is" acting. Of course, I could be terribly wrong.
excellent production. Content well edited and VO'd too. good job. man. Overcoming a goal too. Painful obstacles makes us stronger and provides multiple additions/stages of self-growth = happiness.
@EXALTED you misinterpreted the concept of will to power "I have found strength where one does not look for it:in simple,mild, and pleasant people,without the least desire to rule and,conversely,the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness:they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak(in the end,they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)The powerful natures dominate, it is a necessity, they need not lift one finger."-Nietzsche
"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." Jung; On the Psychology of the Unconscious
False, many prophets had an extreme will to power and a in-depth love if mankind the proof is still available in modern society whether we believe in god or not. unfortunately we now have worn out instincts and only a will to obey because the powers of today turned capitalism into a religion and consumerism an obeying. Whenever there is in era though of people full of worn out instincts a revolution and revolt is inevitable they must first find their will to power.
***** People around me tell me all the time this world is doomed you can't change the world alone ecc ecc... I wonder who is weak then,its those who bury their heads in the sand or those who go about with open eyes?
Yes I agree with you on that point, I wanted to make it clear, that there wasn't some conscious plan. When branches of tribes of humans split out/cross of Africa they did it to find better environment to live in, it was the environment that was making them move, if they didn't move to more fertile lands they would have just died off due to natural selection. So, we were adapting to our environment we didn't have a choice, it had to be like that.
In this worlds nothing perfect exist, ordinary men pursue the concept of perfection through infatuation , what then is the true meaning of being perfect?
|Uniformity is a zero potential state, where there is no motion. Energy is motion and if everything were to equal out, in whatever sense you like, then it would negate itself. Energy is motion and for motion you need potential. Equality is as deathlike as you can get.
He was original, lots of insight, one of the first to state in writing that God is dead. He was right to correct Darwin who thought that Evolution was reactive - Nietzsche stated it was/is proactive. Hitler gave Mussolini a copy of Nietzsche's book at their meeting in 1943 (Italy had just been invaded by the Allies) You can tell that Hitler got a lot of his mind set from this chap, good posting thanks.
Survival is an aspect of the will to power...not vice versa. Trees don't expand and develop because of some will not to be killed, but rather out of a will to consume more power via exploitation of the power of the sun. Plants, animals, etc thus, manifest defense mechanisms so that their will to power doesn't get fucked with by other forces.
I used the well-known Kaufman edition of this Nachlass for ease of reference. The ordering of the book may be his sisters et al, but the passages are of course Friedrich's.
I once gave a lecture on 'Nietzsche & Nihilism', unwinding the subtleties of his use of the term. If you can join me on Facebook, the lecture notes are there which you might find interesting.
OK then. Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware, or I forgot about, his "acquaintances" with the Sophists. Will look into it. BTW I just bought TWTP this afternoon because of your video lol. Despite being told again and again never to rely on this book, I was tired of always struggling to find the matching paragraphs. To be honest I was surprised that you used it as a reference.
Maybe we are incapable of knowing 'absolute truth'. Maybe we must know all 'truths', even those that are actually wrong. Attachment to our mind usually comes at the expense of our body which might in fact be a better arbritator of 'truth'. Nice video!
Interesting interpretation. The reverb and music had me suspecting something ... new agey. But this was nice. Not like Bergson, but more like Schelling's late ideas and Hegel's "Trick".
for me to have had a will to power I first had to have a will to death. I don't know why yet, but I believe its something about the opposites, for will to power is a force. regardless, we "know" where power can take a human being, we don't know where death can take us. certainty always overcomes uncertainty, subconsciously at least.
The Will to power can be seen in many forms. To what degree. like being and not being in to becoming. the difference is degree. Truth it self is subjective to the observer. it is vary difficult to explain this without going in to some form of metaphysics
Will is Force itself and will is power a soul is the manifestation of ones will and societies/hierarchy are a collectivized will of all members small or big.
Fantastic video, been a long time since I've been able to do any philosophy. Curious on how the will to power relates to Nietzsche's theory of the Ubermensch? You mention power in symbiosis with a group of people but isn't that the opposite of what the Ubemensch is about? As I said, been a while so I could be way off! Anyway, great vid!
In your enlightening Nietzsche video, you make effective use of the adaptive root system metaphor of a tree. As the tree grows stronger confronting underground resistance, the tree's "power potential" expands. Descriptive, vivid, and organic are a perfect use of this metaphor. Nietzsche's battle cry maxim for the ages "...that which does not destroy you makes you stronger.. " always conveys a hard, militaristic tone to Nietzsche which is certainly warranted. This elite Navy Seal esque, Spartan warrior philosopher fought his way to the top with front-line focus and OODA loop strikes against the cream puff "Marxist" collectivism academics to find a home at the Olympian rung next to Plato, Schopenhauer, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Your root metaphor connection as well highlights the profound Emersonian influence of natural organic imagery that left a sublime impression on Nietzsche. Thank you for sharing your novel insights on this pioneer German philosopher leading us all away from the modern philosophic T.S. Eliot described wasteland. A wasteland terrain full of vapid, game show host like hollow men mixed in with the John Wick-like Assassins in the philosophy departments of the university tenure system where the truth goes to die as hollow men administrators pander to the lowest common denominator in the collective seal-like applause of virtue signaling and Orwellian levels of political correctness that have the universities and corporations fearing their own shadow. Nietzsche offers a way out of this wasteland to the leading edge with the best view of the vast horizons, blissful sunsets, and the pure austere air of the Swiss Alps. Up in the Alps where Nietzsche is found with his groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting writings, you also can experience the invigorating sensation of elite-level Navy Seal alpine mountain fighting. The mountain combat though is against Platonic shadows comprised of noisy self-confused ignorance, suffering, angst and forced-fed propaganda faced in the shadows of our own mind that we all encounter on our own unique path and quest, propelled on by the relentless force of the will to power and illuminated by the brilliance of Nietzsche's light and profound truth instincts. As we take the philosophic Navy Seal hard path in our own internal root expansion, we will all find why this German savant philosopher, the heroic but "lonely" wanderer and his shadow, is fulfilling his "prophecy" in his writings. Nietzsche's prophecy, emblematic of the gravitas of the Rock of Ages prophets, is increasingly germane in these dark matrix times. As a result, Nietzsche true to form, has become "...the philosopher for the day after tomorrow."
'The Will to Power its not Greed, Its Growth.' - wow
StandardProceduree.... Word up!!... Im so glad i learned this... Now i have a better understanding, more knowledge of my nature, and i am therefore more powerful... This feels good.... Its also great to actualize that its in fact also growth...( power is absolutely not limited to the negative connotation it has been condemned to... Its MU CH MUCH more....) I can now self actualize my nature, become more aware (powerful) with/of it, justify or support it( which feels good because it suits my wills end goal towards power, because i can not even just excuse it, but feel inclined towards it, as it lies under neathe conciousness, it will persist and express itself in many different ways, and its my responsibility to direct that will and energy in a positive way, use it for good, and attempt to make the world a better place ( just as super heros uses super powers ) ( IT FEELS SO GREAT HAVING HAD LEARNED THIS)
But does it really matter ? I mean, in nietzschean teachings, greed ought to be considered as good. I think to be true to his teachings, Nietzsche should have said 'The Will to Power is Greed. The Will to power is Growth. Greed is Growth''
@@francoislechanceux5818 There is an importance difference. When one thinks of greed... by what equation is greed and growth related in a positive manner? There are many tales I'm sure involving growth of a person while the not adhering to greed (if anything the greed of characters prevents them from growing, greed brings forth the antithesis of growth: stagnation).
If anything the second part of the equation is suffering, the Buddha's encounter with suffering is the impetus for that man to become the Buddha for example, where is the greed in this moment a great change, a great growth, took place? Nowhere at all.
Greed in its original sense involves the obtaining and hoarding of riches; personally it would be more likely to find a Last Man with greed then the Ubermensch, they probably already have said riches or don't care about it. They certainly wouldn't have it tied to their self worth as how a greedy person would.
Will to power is not greed, its the amount of will that Overcome resistance.....
That is a great and complete summary 👍 👏 👌
Can’t get enough. Listen to this almost every day, it’s everything I say. It’s so life confirming
"consciousness does not cause actions, it merely accompanies them." This man was so far ahead of his time. Even now who is talking about free will and determinism being a false dichotomy?
I didnt understand that part too. Could you explain it? So he sees either free will or determinism sufficient in explaining actions?
@@fierypickles4450 He thinks both are illusions.That is because both free will and determinism accept axiomatically the consepts of "object" and "subject",which Kant and Schopenhauer proved to be false.There are no "borders" between things.All is one.One big "happening" and consciousness accompanies it.Consiousness doesn't just create freely nor does it just receive passivelly the world.Rather, it has a transactional relashionship to it.For example:when you look at a red aple you have no choice but to see
the colour "red" and the consept of "aple".However, both the colour and the consept of the aple are created by you.There isn't such a thing as "red" or "aple" outside of a human brain.In order to have a "red aple" you need a consiousness to percieve it.So counsiousness both receives data AND creates the perceived world simultaneously.
@@vasilissopikiotis6219 thank you that was helpful
@@vasilissopikiotis6219 nicely explained, thank you. Also, 'aple' is missing a 'p' :P.
@@yznaiber7598 hahaha,yea...i kinda fucked up there :P
"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
StephenAndrew777 he who truly soars high does not care what others think.
+magouliana32 the statement doesn't show concern for what other's think.
"we appear to those who cannot fly" It clearly says that we appear smaller to others hence he is thinking of how non flyers think, of how the flyers appear to the ones who are not able to "fly". Yes he cares and there is other examples you just don"t know how to look objectively yet to see that he is the one who could not soar.
+magouliana32 it's a statement more about the self than other, please don't talk of objectivity.
The statement includes the other, that's not my fault i didn't write it.
One of the first videos I've found that does justice to Nietzsche's doctrines and demonstrates a good comprehension of his actual beliefs.
right??!
Willsulla Dionysius Kidd It's one of only two such videos I've become aware of. The other one is Galen Strawson's talk that can be found here called 'Nietzsche's metaphysics'.
Everyone uses him in his own context (which i do not disapprove so much). Thats a difference between the rest and the scholars who actually study and want to know what this man meant.= independently of their mental framework. I enjoy reading various philosophers but when it comes to applying it in your own ideas i'll let people who study them as their life profession to do the talking.
I am guessing that your name has something to do with the will to power, SuckYourBone.
+SuckYourBone *Scholars are only salaried servants of the political power of their time, they doesn't live on clouds: and the political power that rule the world today is progressive and capitalist liberalism* , *i.e. a system that is trotskist-leftwinger in culture (Permanent Revolution) and anarcho-capitalist in economy (the heart of modern civilization is Wall Street)* . Basically Locke and Montesquieu + Trotsky.
*Great free thinkers and philosophers that fought all their life against 'Modernity', 'Democracy', 'Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité' and 'Liberalism' like Nietzsche and Heidegger are depicted as 'Egalitarians in reality', 'Humanitarians and Humanists', 'Christians', 'antecedents of Pope Francis' etc., and 'scholars' are nothing more than the obedient servants that deform these great anti-modern philosophers. They and journalists are the 'Oratores' (clergy class) of postmodernity* .
Nietzsche and Schopenhauer wrote clearly about the true nature of 'academic philosophy'.
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Universalis Ted Einstein never completed his unified field theory. There is still value here. If you can’t see it, move along. 🦾
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@Universalis Ted you're a bit loopy
Moonmans will to power overcomes everyone
I wish Schopenhauer could have read Nietzsche.
Fuckin a this lol
That would have been interesting. I wonder if he would have agreed with him?
Yes, the accidental power for the trixtor, could outlive and assume Vigilance. Pro-creation shall find It's Way.
Marco Dellorusso I expect he would certainly have troubles with the abbrasiveness of some of his ideas, the iccorrigible pessemist that he was. Still, both men were first rank geniuses, and I would have loved to know what he might have had to say to Nietzsche's philosophy!
Chris Krajewski What do mean?
This is some dangerous thinking, but I can’t deny the truth in it. I agree more with Aristotle on this subject: that happiness is the point of everything, seeing as an individual will give up anything to attain happiness, yet once having acquired happiness, an individual will take nothing in exchange for that happiness-not even power, unless they believe they might gain yet more happiness from this power. Even power is useless without fulfillment and joy. Power is only a means to happiness; happiness is king, not power.
Not everyone can stomach neitzsche's ideas
mahmud rizve: It’s not that I can’t stomach it, it’s just that a philosopher of Aristotle’s caliber differed from Nietzsche. Upon further observation, I can see how one can’t be happy without being powerful, or having relative power over oneself (personal liberty). Nietzsche described the will to power as the freedom to be what we truly are, without obstacles. This definition is almost the same as happiness, or freedom. The two philosophers seem to describe the same thing.
I listen to this on a daily basis as an affirmation of my nature
You must be an absolute cretin. He was clearly mistaken.
@@jimstan23 Praise Jesus! Slave morality is the way. Weakness is the way. Submission is the way. (sarcasm)
this may be one of Nietzsche's most important and significant ideas, which makes this video very important. thanks much for sharing!
Man, I’m reading this book right now and I feel honoured to have the opportunity to know what Nietzche identified. It’s truths are so deep in my thoughts that it’s genuinely physically satisfying to realize them.
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You have a talent for setting a clear and lucid explanation of a philosophy to music and using imagery to set a mood. There mite be a market for these type of videos.
"Being prudent employs consciousness but one is still determined by the will which seeks power"
Prudence, as well as other virtues, always has an alterior motive based on a higher purpose. Out of all modern philosophers Nietzsche came closest to identifying what it is according to nature.
Thank you so much for this video. I started reading "Beyond Good and Evil", and Nietzsche writes in such an interesting way, it is actually a page turner. But I had trouble understanding exactly what he was saying. I found myself able to recall a lot of the ideas you brought up, so you put everything into beautiful context for me. Thank you.
'The possibility of finding some substitutions for the lost God by means of the most varied forms of self-idolization constituted the story of [Nietzsche's] mind, his works and his illness ... In its tortured quest, the yearning for God becomes a drive for God-creation, and that of necessity had to express itself in self-deification.' - Lou Salomé
Sounds like David Bowie is teaching Nietzsche!
I was thinking Linus Roache.
I used to listen to this vid like 10 yrs ago can't believe it's still the first result when YT'ing 'nietzsche will to power'
What a piece of art, "...all is force against force, nothing more."
You are one hell of a talent. BRAVO. I LOVED THIS CLEAR, ACCURATE presentation. Thank you.
Lecia Breen Thank you.
Ontologistics this music accompaniment and comprehensiveness of this video was awesome. You should do all of your videos in this format!!! Btw loved the game of thrones track, which one was it?
Nietzsche said that seeing the 'truth' was like riding a wild tiger. The idea is to hold on as long as possible, not let go in despair.
Love the videos on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Right now I'm reading Zarathustra...and I'm moved by the metamorphosis chapter of man bearing the burden like unto a Camel who carries his burden alone, and thru suffering he becomes a lion which slays the dragon of old ideals. And then is reborn into a child.
Good stuff, carry on my good sir...
i downloaded this as mp3 i listen to it going to school loving every second of it
do more man
all the best
lol me too
your voice emanates the wisdom of nietzche, i feel the power
Those who have a good memory often fail to become a thinker
+MrAwrsomeness Explain that one?
***** What did you say? I forgot let me think about it..
.... genius.... i haven't thought about it that way before..
Perspective.
@@marcdellorusso180 forget self pity ,remember your strength
Excellent & many thanks for elaborating & sharing. Greetings from Cancún, México! 🇲🇽
Without doubt the most epic and heroic video on the interwebs
I enjoy a dose of this once a day. Such gravity.
Not about dominating individuals. It is expressing power.
This is gold! This'll be a distraction from comfortableness and therefore alcohol. :)
Brilliant. What a public service. That was great, thank you!
The highest level of comfort for a man is moderate discomfort. -Mouse Utopia
This is the best video on TH-cam
The way I see it is a developmental direction of a world where everyone is a completely autonomous individual, such that there can be no controllers or controlled, because everyone has developed great power to overcome any physical limitation imposed by others, so no one COULD be controlled or control, and also great unique contribution of their own art to the whole.
This was eye opening! I will use those ideas in my essay.
So well explained, actually explaining the parts that are interesting, and explaining WHY they're interesting
I watch TH-cam literally like 20 hours a week and this is among or perhaps my favorite video all-time.
I think the will to power at the end tries to maintain it’s survival by making it more difficult to be destroyed and cease to exist, thus, the will to survive encompasses the final purpose of the will to power as well as its most basic form.
interesting. almost like the hero that tries to get a memorial, or the philanthropist with a plaque.
Society today strives for preservation not change. Pleasure and not hunger for greatness. Through history the elite ruled and had a lot of time on their hand, they experienced all the pleasures of the flesh then sought more deeper pleasure. The pleasure of charting the unknown, new. So they funded science and exploration. The masses are getting to know these pleasures but don't show a hint of desire to evolve.
I say the will to power is the will to explore and evolve - change, not preservation.
This is truly profound. Because it is the undeniable condition of this existence.
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I'm not Ontologistics, obviously, but your theory seems spot on.
I have always asserted that "the will to power" is secondary to "the will to be." The real goal is 'to be' or simply "is" in the heideggerian sense. The "will to power" is merely a tool to this end.
Then how do you explain self sacrifice? Humans frequently sacrifice their wellbeing, years of their life, and existence to make an impact.
The “will to power” trumps “the will to exist”.
I love Nietzsche but when you compare it to Schopenhauer he has no chance. Schopenhauer its just pure brilliancy and brutal honesty. Anyone who had read the world as will and representation will understand. Who agrees??
YES! Glad to hear I am not alone!
"Believe nothing you hear and only one half of what you see." Schopenhauer would have made a world class poker player as well as a philosopher on the highest rungs of Mt. Olympia. The philosophy of Schopenhauer works in poker and works in real life. Nietzsche though did his mentor proud by adding a hierarchy to the will. This video highlights how profound and paradigm shifting was Nietzsche's full spectrum analysis of life's battlefield, chess match, poker game, video game matrix, choose your metaphor. Nietzsche may have solved the Rubix Cube of life's puzzle in connecting philosophy and "truth quests" with power and sun generated energy that clearly drives life. All captured with Nietzsche's Navy Seal front line focus and precision force of his "powerful," heralded writing style. Schopenhauer, as senior commander would have for sure toasted Nietzsche with Dom Perignon for his savant brilliance, and Navy Seal like battlefield awareness against the university hollow men philosophers, and awarded Nietzsche his Navy Seal trident for advancing philosophy a thousand years by the paradigm shifting work of the ages, WTP. Never thought at univ Plato could even be challenged with his epochal writings, but Schopenhauer and his protege Nietzsche took the game to the next level. So, yes, Schopenhauer is the mentor for sure, and Nietzsche did his senior commander Navy Seal proud by becoming with WTP "the philosopher for the day after tomorrow." TY, for your astute Schopenhauer gratitude.
Well done, well said. Nietzsche was way ahead of his time
How decisive the individual is to pluralize itself - organic labyrinths. . . nicely structured in a well of thought. . . Great stuff! Life is strident in every direction. The gain is realistic only when the individual wants it in perception! A type of poetry for you!
This video always takes me to some dark places and the book just blows my mind every time.
This is one gem of a philosophical piece
Best philosopher ever
Nietzsche believed that Life, as opposed to dead concepts of Truth or God, was a necessary move away from ideals, but is actually, due to his will, the act of idealizing Life. The mind cannot escape its idealizing tendencies, and thus Nietzsche committed himself to the negation of ideals, which in itself is a disguised ideal, and in doing so turned his dedication to his philosophy into the same type of faith that theologians have in God, one that is infinitely powerful, imperfect, and recurring.
Thanks a lot for the video. There were a couple of points I was a little hazy on after reading several of his pieces of writing for an essay, and this really helped me fill in those gaps.
I have read it, yes - and there's an interesting trinity there, as you write.
However, my next video will most probably be about the metaphysics of Henri Bergson.
Excellent work. Friedrich would be pleased and proud of you.
I'm afraid you are very mistaken: if you watch the video, you'll see I quote passages about the 'Will to Power' from published works (e.g. Beyond Good & Evil §36) as well as the Nachlass (notebooks). Moreover, as with all writers, those notes were used in his published works. Furthermore, Nz started out as a Schopenhauerian whose central tenet was the Will to Survive. So from the start, the Will featured centrally - though it developed solidly into the Will to Power as his work matured.
Dynamite video- I will have to watch it a few times to grasp all the information given. Excellent analysis, Thanks for posting it.
Excellent as always - not having read as much Nietzsche as I've read the other panthelists (von Hartmann, Bahnsen, Mainländer), it is very useful to have overview like this - especially to see the very close relations of the views of Bahnsen and Nietzsche.
Is this "Will to Power" another form of syntropy (the force that employs entropy to reduce chaos in reality)?
All is will to powrr itself as well as falls into a heiarchy. Entropy and order are both the wtp as well as it's results.
Powerful presentation....
+Ontologistics I don't see how that phrase "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" can be fully true. People who are paralysed weren't killed but there didn't get stronger. Also my mother got multiple sclerosis and for three years she completely deteriorated before finally dying. I don't see how she got stronger...
I agree that phrase is true in some cases, but not all of them.
sry for your loss but i think you have to put this quote on something greater than the lifespan of one human. like the human evolution
Not to be too cold hearten but she died had she survived she might have developed an immunity or resistance which would have made her stronger .
The full quote is "Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."
Not all of what Nietzsche writes is to be taken literal.
It is like in Thus Spoke Zarathustra in section "On War and Warriors" in which Zarathustra says "let your peace be a victory".
What doesn't kill you, makes you fatter.
You are thinking of power in terms of physical well being. Stephen Hawking.
Thanks for clearing that up, I've only noticed this comment today strangely. I just wanted to make that abundantly clear.
Plato's Form (eidos) of the Good, i.e. objective good, is found in a number of his works, notably The Republic. Nietzsche prefaces BGE by noting that his work is a 'struggle against Plato': 'of all errors thus far, the most grievous, protracted, and dangerous has been a dogmatist's error: Plato's invention of pure spirit and of transcendental goodness.'
Mind... Blown, again, and again.
Absolutely incredible, I too will have to watch it a few times to grasp all this information! I am a newbie to to the world of philosophy, but I have taken to it like glue!!
Nietzsche is the most intelligent man of whole human history.
it's more apparent when you consider that he was applying newton's laws to the ideas of genetics..you have a force away from death (survival) and would then need another force against that for it not to place a focus on power --which would be more coded in that design if there were a benefit
Ty, for your thought provoking post. When convenient, could you perhaps expand on your profound observation. Trying to get my head around your scientific examples, and want to make sure follows your line of thinking. This WTP summary yt video is amazing how it crystallizes the essence of Nietzsche's pivotal, paradigm breaking work. Best Regards, look forward to your response when convenient all in the quest for "truth" and full spectrum awareness.
As Nietzsche mentioned in "Beyond good and evil" everything is someone's interpretation. Greed as you describe is only your own interpretation. It doesn't have to agree with my understanding of it because everyone has their own impulses and desires thoughts feelings.. Nowadays we are bound together like pigs that are waiting to be slaughtered. We are all individuals and so it is not even questionable that you can make a category of good and evil, disdain, benevolence. It is ours own interpretation. I think people have only a real value when acting on their own impulses and desires.
Its all so fascinating I think. You can call someone greedy, but in all reality, you are using pathos (most likely trying to trigger an emotional response not logic) to attack an enemy for your own power. This cycle continues forever and ever. An organism will use all tools at their disposal to gain power. Nietzsche called Christianity slave morality when it reality it was the master morality of its' day.
Truly great video sums up the essence of Will to Power and Beyond Good and Evil really clearly and using an easy to understand language. As for the content it really describes life as it is on a day to day reality.
Very good anaylsis of Wille Zur Macht - congrats.
@Ontologistics, have you read Pierre Klossowski's "Nietzsche and the vicious circle"?
I'm particularly interested in how the notions of overman, will to power and eternal recurrence cross themselves in a very coherent way. That's the key to understanding Nietzsche IMO - undestanding the relations between these three notions.
Do you plan to make a video on this, or on Eternal Recurrence one day? I noticed this notion is widely misunderstood.
What if perhaps Nietzsche and Darwin were right? Perhaps there is a proactive/reactive balance to life giving a Will to Power and Will to Survive.
Kyle Rodd Slave and master morality
This is addressed in the video, man. Darwin and others believed our purpose was survival. Nietzsche “furthered” this theory by observing that the will to survive is at the lowest level of existence. This will, if thriving or at least, not threatened, will continue with the preeminent will to power.
Mankind often takes for granted the fact that he is in a position of power and no longer has to play the game of survival. Survival is damn-near promised in society. Of course we want to survive, homie, but we’re beyond that. We want to dominate. You and I have been born fortunate beneficiaries to the severe undertakings of our ancestors (most of our ancestors being rodents and relatively powerless beings). We inherit this will to power following the will to beings less successful on the planet. This is evolution. I agree both can be right. In the case of man, I believe the will to survival has undeniably grown to the will to power.
They both matter depending on the circumstances.
The survival of the fittest is not evolution. It's those who pass on their genes who continue the chain of life. Survival alone is meaningless without offspring. One could argue the very act of pursuing a mate is proactive.
@Nightman No, surviving just means not dying. One can survive without sex.
The will to power is essential to life, homo sapiens as a species would not have survived without the will to power. Some pre-socratics were correct in underlining the fact that evolution was not merely a survival impulse but a striving for power and dominance. The political philosophy most implicit in the belief in the will to power would be fascism. All of history with its numerous conflicts, oppressive wars and controlling empires gives credence to Nietzsche's world view. Nietzsche as brilliantly exposed the illusions of mankind, together with its utter hypocritical nature.
I don't think that is a problem for Nietzsche. Although I know very little of Nietzsche's philosophy, from what I do know, the "will to power" is not driving the universe, it isn't some grand metaphysics. It specifically pertains to life. He is not saying how life "ought" to be acting, but how it "is" acting. Of course, I could be terribly wrong.
excellent production. Content well edited and VO'd too. good job. man. Overcoming a goal too. Painful obstacles makes us stronger and provides multiple additions/stages of self-growth = happiness.
I can feel the foundations of the earth shaking, beckoning for the Overman to give them meaning!
@EXALTED you misinterpreted the concept of will to power
"I have found strength where one does not look for it:in simple,mild, and pleasant people,without the least desire to rule and,conversely,the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness:they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak(in the end,they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)The powerful natures dominate, it is a necessity, they need not lift one finger."-Nietzsche
yeah, great video. I like the grandoise setting
This video was absolutely amazing! Much appreciated how you explained things in laymen’s terms. Very wise. Thanks!😊
Thank you Ontologists, please keep making more Nietzsche's videos!
"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." Jung; On the Psychology of the Unconscious
False, many prophets had an extreme will to power and a in-depth love if mankind the proof is still available in modern society whether we believe in god or not. unfortunately we now have worn out instincts and only a will to obey because the powers of today turned capitalism into a religion and consumerism an obeying. Whenever there is in era though of people full of worn out instincts a revolution and revolt is inevitable they must first find their will to power.
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I agree with you..what i love inspired my will to get my way.
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People around me tell me all the time this world is doomed you can't change the world alone ecc ecc... I wonder who is weak then,its those who bury their heads in the sand or those who go about with open eyes?
The wires have been certainly crossed here, we're all using the terms "power" and "will-to-power" but discussing slightly different things.
To the astute, those with a strong external will-to-power clearly demonstrate weakness.
Yes I agree with you on that point, I wanted to make it clear, that there wasn't some conscious plan. When branches of tribes of humans split out/cross of Africa they did it to find better environment to live in, it was the environment that was making them move, if they didn't move to more fertile lands they would have just died off due to natural selection. So, we were adapting to our environment we didn't have a choice, it had to be like that.
All in all, in True Eternal Reality, it is 'The Will to Perfection' that is greater than ''The Will to Power"!
In this worlds nothing perfect exist, ordinary men pursue the concept of perfection through infatuation , what then is the true meaning of being perfect?
Figures such as Callicles, Antiphon, Thrasymachus et al. The Sophists.
Will to Power is not just the Kaufmann release in the 60s, it IS his central tennet. Life itself is the will to power. Read his books!!!
|Uniformity is a zero potential state, where there is no motion. Energy is motion and if everything were to equal out, in whatever sense you like, then it would negate itself. Energy is motion and for motion you need potential. Equality is as deathlike as you can get.
He was original, lots of insight, one of the first to state in writing that God is dead. He was right to correct Darwin who thought that Evolution was reactive - Nietzsche stated it was/is proactive.
Hitler gave Mussolini a copy of Nietzsche's book at their meeting in 1943 (Italy had just been invaded by the Allies) You can tell that Hitler got a lot of his mind set from this chap, good posting thanks.
Survival is an aspect of the will to power...not vice versa. Trees don't expand and develop because of some will not to be killed, but rather out of a will to consume more power via exploitation of the power of the sun. Plants, animals, etc thus, manifest defense mechanisms so that their will to power doesn't get fucked with by other forces.
''Life Simple is the Will to Power'' ...and quote
'' The Life is continuing the Will to Power Simple ''
I used the well-known Kaufman edition of this Nachlass for ease of reference. The ordering of the book may be his sisters et al, but the passages are of course Friedrich's.
Awesome video. A whole bunch of vids with readings from Nietzsche would be great too.
My pleasure, really.
I once gave a lecture on 'Nietzsche & Nihilism', unwinding the subtleties of his use of the term. If you can join me on Facebook, the lecture notes are there which you might find interesting.
This is a great summary. Thanks.
Nice video. WTP is scattered rather scarcely throughout his works (as is ER) but Nietzsche himself says he regards ER as his central teaching.
OK then. Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware, or I forgot about, his "acquaintances" with the Sophists. Will look into it.
BTW I just bought TWTP this afternoon because of your video lol. Despite being told again and again never to rely on this book, I was tired of always struggling to find the matching paragraphs.
To be honest I was surprised that you used it as a reference.
Maybe we are incapable of knowing 'absolute truth'.
Maybe we must know all 'truths', even those that are actually
wrong.
Attachment to our mind usually comes at the expense of our
body which might in fact be a better arbritator of 'truth'.
Nice video!
Interesting interpretation. The reverb and music had me suspecting something ... new agey. But this was nice. Not like Bergson, but more like Schelling's late ideas and Hegel's "Trick".
for me to have had a will to power I first had to have a will to death. I don't know why yet, but I believe its something about the opposites, for will to power is a force. regardless, we "know" where power can take a human being, we don't know where death can take us. certainty always overcomes uncertainty, subconsciously at least.
The Will to power can be seen in many forms. To what degree. like being and not being in to becoming. the difference is degree. Truth it self is subjective to the observer. it is vary difficult to explain this without going in to some form of metaphysics
Beautiful
Will is Force itself and will is power a soul is the manifestation of ones will and societies/hierarchy are a collectivized will of all members small or big.
Fantastic video, been a long time since I've been able to do any philosophy. Curious on how the will to power relates to Nietzsche's theory of the Ubermensch? You mention power in symbiosis with a group of people but isn't that the opposite of what the Ubemensch is about? As I said, been a while so I could be way off! Anyway, great vid!
In your enlightening Nietzsche video, you make effective use of the adaptive root system metaphor of a tree. As the tree grows stronger confronting underground resistance, the tree's "power potential" expands. Descriptive, vivid, and organic are a perfect use of this metaphor. Nietzsche's battle cry maxim for the ages "...that which does not destroy you makes you stronger.. " always conveys a hard, militaristic tone to Nietzsche which is certainly warranted. This elite Navy Seal esque, Spartan warrior philosopher fought his way to the top with front-line focus and OODA loop strikes against the cream puff "Marxist" collectivism academics to find a home at the Olympian rung next to Plato, Schopenhauer, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Your root metaphor connection as well highlights the profound Emersonian influence of natural organic imagery that left a sublime impression on Nietzsche. Thank you for sharing your novel insights on this pioneer German philosopher leading us all away from the modern philosophic T.S. Eliot described wasteland. A wasteland terrain full of vapid, game show host like hollow men mixed in with the John Wick-like Assassins in the philosophy departments of the university tenure system where the truth goes to die as hollow men administrators pander to the lowest common denominator in the collective seal-like applause of virtue signaling and Orwellian levels of political correctness that have the universities and corporations fearing their own shadow.
Nietzsche offers a way out of this wasteland to the leading edge with the best view of the vast horizons, blissful sunsets, and the pure austere air of the Swiss Alps. Up in the Alps where Nietzsche is found with his groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting writings, you also can experience the invigorating sensation of elite-level Navy Seal alpine mountain fighting. The mountain combat though is against Platonic shadows comprised of noisy self-confused ignorance, suffering, angst and forced-fed propaganda faced in the shadows of our own mind that we all encounter on our own unique path and quest, propelled on by the relentless force of the will to power and illuminated by the brilliance of Nietzsche's light and profound truth instincts.
As we take the philosophic Navy Seal hard path in our own internal root expansion, we will all find why this German savant philosopher, the heroic but "lonely" wanderer and his shadow, is fulfilling his "prophecy" in his writings. Nietzsche's prophecy, emblematic of the gravitas of the Rock of Ages prophets, is increasingly germane in these dark matrix times. As a result, Nietzsche true to form, has become "...the philosopher for the day after tomorrow."