How To Be Authentic - Friedrich Nietzsche (Existentialism)
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Friedrich Nietzsche - How To Be Authentic (Existentialism)
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, and philologist and is considered as one of the greatest and most unusual thinkers of all time. He was one of the precursors of existentialism. Existentialism is more a cultural movement rather than a philosophical one, which considers that freedom is at the core of human existence, all human values should be based on it and, moreover, existentialism affirms “the categorical moral imperative of authenticity”. In line with the theory of existentialism, Nietzsche talked about the importance of having an authentic life. In existentialism, authenticity is the degree to which a person's actions are in line with their beliefs and desires, despite the pressure from society to behave in one way or another. Nietzsche emphasized having the courage to be authentic and to fight against the tyranny of popular beliefs. So to understand how his ideas can help you in your life, here are 7 ways we can learn to be authentic from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
01. Accept yourself as a totality
02. Follow your own path
03. Accept that you are different
04. Obey only yourself
05. Do not be ashamed
06. Forgive yourself
07. Live dangerously
I hope you enjoyed watching these 7 ways in which you can learn to be authentic from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and find them helpful in your 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 emphasizes 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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Can we get a video on Jiddu Krishnamurti philosophy next?
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Nietsche was clearly with it. His comments on the average person in society and their bland acceptance of authority are all very well for him say when he could retire to his alpine retreats and live off his personal wealth. But very different for the average man who really lives in true poverty and understands such relatively simple concepts as positive nihilism and yet still lives a hopeless life without resort to alpine solitude and plenty.
Everything a homeless person here in Sydney Australia asks me for any change I try quickly to make them aware that they have an amazing opportunity to start again by overcoming their situation and if they have slept on the street hit a rock bottom that's experiences they have already overcome. YET they continue to play a victim. I use to play that victim until I found philosophy 7 years ago. Thanks for reading this...
@@shanebrennan256 what a very simple minded person you are, your comment is absurd and offensive.
Confidence is not walking into a room thinking you’re better than everyone, its walking into a room not comparing yourself to anyone at all.
Rooms were not made to walk into
I always see you comment on ams channel
Bro I see you everywhere 😂
I knew men into redpill are also into philosophy. Salute to all the men out there!
One does not simply walk into a room
No it’s not, that’s inauthentic. If you FEEL the urge to compare yourself to others and YOU DON’T, that’s personality tweaking and it’s inauthentic!!! People always try to put a positive spin on authenticity straight out of fear not realizing they’re compromising on authenticity itself!!! Even the video gets this wrong!!! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
"What you think of yourself
Is much more important
Than what others
think of you."
Seneca.
be careful what you think of yourself! it may become reality! so think good things!
Don’t agree at all
I am a big fan of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. He is so true in saying that there is no “right” way to lead our lives. Following what is popular is against yourself.
I love Nietzsche - he is a constant source of comfort to me in difficult times.
"There is no pleasing some
People.
The trick is to stop trying."
- Robert Mitchum
Who's Robert Mitcham? Did you mean Robert "Mitchum," the American actor?
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Yes I did Groucho, 👍✔🌞
" I climbed to the top of The World - and found nothing there. " Errol Flynn
@@johnbyrne2127 LOL! Thanks!
Friedrich Nietzsche is honest about life and we can find experiences in our own lives that mirror his.
No price is too high to pay to know oneself. Absolutely. Thank you.
I'm just discovering Nietzsche and OMG I've been living and molding this lifestyle, looked at as weird but idc and ever since i started, have felt very freed. I feel almost validated in the sense that I'm not alone in my philosophy in living my life. I'm 35 and amazed he reached this in his 20s.
Nietzsche's and other's quotes inspired me to free myself from judgement. I was living in my past, always thinking about "the good old times" and being so nostalgic that I even thought about school being a living hell because of some people back then.
I need to forget them, I need to forget judgement and I want to free myself from fear. Without fear, death will be nothing more than eternal sleep. Without fear, no one will make me obey them even if they're stronger. Without fear, I don't have stress and pressure with the vocational school, with my driver's license, with people laughing about me and how I dress. It's refreshing and this mindset made everything today just better.
Thanks for your great video content which help me give some thought on many things.
Never ever judge anyone unless it's Wagner
I guess that's where personal relationships are still a thing. You build someone up in your mind to be something they aren't actually then you can't stand the disappointment when they aren't who you thought. Whether Wagner was being authentic to himself or not, Nietzsche wasn't going to be his friend anymore after he revealed who he really was and/or capitulated to expectations for fame.
‘Never meet ur heroes’ lol
🤣🤣
Excellent
Choosing to disengage from someone, because they don't have your best interest in mind, and recognizing someone else's traits, is not necessarily judgement.
Personally, I don't think judgement is bad. It's part of the critical thinking ability of the higher mind. It's only when the judgement is baseless, ie not in relation to how the individual actually is, that it can be malignant.
The best of ourselves is not there in comparison but in the confidence in not being someone else, yes just ourselves.
I really like nietzsche's thoughts. this explanation is very understandable and to be recommended to all nietzsche lovers. how admirable!
I agree. What does tabomochanko mean though?
The three control tactics: Fear, Guilt, and Shame.
Very very true. Insecurities as well. But I assume that's also a mix of fear and shame.
He was a genius, seriously. Nietzsche = Niche and is the reason why I felt for most of my life that I did not fit anywhere.
Being authentic everytime takes courage
"If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Exactly.
This quote just perfectly solved my question. Sometimes when I hear of the great quailties of authentic people, I get jealous. Not in a bad way, but simply longing for that same feeling. Trying to learn the qualities of an authentic person. They are not bad lessons don't get me wrong, but simply I should be my honest self, while also being kind to others and hardworking hard to be better.
@@GeekZone210 SEAL's “Kiss From A Rose” is authentic because you feel it in your heart.
I found that taping a message to my neighbour's car, in huge red letters, saying, "Are you out of your mind?" works quite well, but since this video is trying to help us all to get along with each other better, I'll remain silent for now - I clearly have much to learn...
I too love F.N. I was raised in an atmosphere of shame, judgment and severe morality. Discovering F.N .was a life changing event for me
Self acceptance and self love have been my key to recovery from what others tried to impose upon me
Thank you for playing this recording for everyone. F.N. got a bad rap for the connection the Nazis made with him so many years ago but in the end truth wills out. People ought not be written off so easily.
‘Living dangerously!’ I believe means thinking and living not-like all the others
Nietzsche gets me so fired up, AHHH I'm ready to sculpt
Something i don't understand: Nietzsche says that there is no right way to live life. And that we can't judge anyone for the way they live, there is no good and bad because it's not your life they're living. Yet he judges his friend Wagner for selling out, chasing succes and being 'inauthentic'. Sounds weird to me, because it's a complete contradiction.
Also, would it be inauthentic for me to chase succes, recognition, money, etc. if that's truly what i want to do? Would it be wrong for me to 'sell out' and be inauthentic just for a while because it will help me reach the purpose and goals in my life? If i am the one deciding to do this, is it still inauthentic?
It’s crazy cause I was just writing in my notes these kind of contradictions. The world is a complex place and we are complex beings. At the end of it all… it’s really just perspective.
I think the author misquoted him. I’m assuming it was more like he didn’t like how wagoners desires changed. Doesn’t mean he’s not authentic, but means that he didn’t like wagners new authenticity because not everyone’s compatible
He can disagree with Wagners way..without ‘judging him.
well over all, you truly enjoy chasing that bad go for it, its not about not chasing success, you chase after what you want. I disagree with chasing money, sex but i want recogniation for my art and manga. I want to do something impact but it for fame while nice, i doing this becasue it what truly feel happy and not just the happy kind of feeling after having sex or drinking or what hedosisitc attruibite. I stand agaisnt the pressure of prusing the money, wealth, statues that deeply ingrained the society because all it ever did to me was it made drove me to despair.
I signed up for a philosophy course in college because I though it was going to be fun. First lesson, the italian teacher told us that we were expected to read 200-300 pages from Nietzsche every week. That was my last day in the class
Means you weren’t ready. I have found anything to do with Philosophy I can go right through the readings, but other areas not so much. Give it another try!
@Paul Wolf I listened to beyond Good and evil on audible and quite frankly is beyond my reading level.
I love these videos :) aligns to my inner voice, now I listen w/intent. Live in a confluence of mental confusion but its getting clearer
Authenticity means living my own most potential for interbeing human on earth until I dies.
9:19 Nietzsche was contradicting his own philosophy when he judged Wagner. Nietzsche was authentically jealous of Wagner. And Nietzsche died in an insane asylum as Wagner continued to play music. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionized opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesize the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. Wagner appealing to the masses joined people together far more than Nietzsche's jealous anger ever did.
Thanks for this.
With Confidence comes malleability in a person, and malleability and tolerance is really the Source of humility, and you can't be compassionate without humility because it is all intertwined in a way. So it's really important to monitor kids/young adults using to much social media because it is a really great way to break down "weak" individuals and drive them into Self-doubt instead of the opposite that is so very much important if one should grow up to be genuine and emotionally intelligent/Compassionate and so on. This is what i personally think but really simplified. 🙂😗🤫
One of the most accurate philosopher of his time and beyond. An inspiration of taking seriously all the things that manage to make you feel weak or vulnerable. I'm not a wise men, but I like to learn this topics, they're full of knowledge. Thank you dude. Keep the good job! 👽💯🙌🏻
You HAVE to see the pre code 30s movie, "Babyface" with Barbara Stanwyck as a sexy young girl who is told by an agitated German refugee in the bar she works in, what Friedrich Nietzsche said about taking what you want. She is told to exploit men for what she wants, to not be a victim, to be strong! She decides that's a great idea, and sleeps her way to a huge amount of diamonds, furs and fabulous apts. Her change of attitude and her learning how to manipulate the world around her in a vicious, man owned society is fascinating, but at the end, the filmmakers felt puritan guilt, and had her suddenly give up everything for some weak dork who doesn't deserve her... it's still fun to watch, though. I've never seen a film before based on Nietzsche's darker ruminations, its great!
@@christineparis5607 didn't knew anything about it, but I'll search for it. 💯👍🏻
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If you have TCM, they show it off and on, and I think you can get it from Amazon. I grew up only seeing Barbara Stanwyck as an over made up old lady on the tv show, "Big Valley" as a kid, I had no idea she was such an incredible very young actress in dark films that pushed boundaries...she had a great expression of absolute cynicism throughout the film, that I loved, because she's not even reacting, or acting, she's just letting the camera look at her disappointed-with-life face....
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Sorry, I forgot to tell you to look up Nietzsche's great love, Lou Andreas Salome, whom he was completely infatuated by. He and his friend traveled together and worked on lifes meaning. He wanted to marry her, apparently, but she was wild for her time. There is an incredible photo of her in a studio, standing up in a buggy, with a whip (!), and Nietzsche and the other guy are in harness as the horses! It's too surreal! Look on Google, I'm sure they have it. I collect a lot of obscure books, and it was in a bio of her. She was a feminist and a fireball who would have thought both terms were ridiculous. She just carried on, doing her thing and knocking down men like a bowling ball....she wasn't mean, she loved men, but was very individual.
@@christineparis5607 that's quite quality info, it's interesting to search in the web for different things. I'm not ashamed of letting the social community while ago, we don't need to be put in a golden plate for the reasonable things we do. It's a position were the power not even bothers you, it's meaningless. Nice talking to you. 💯👽💪🏻
Weather in leading or following your own past the enigma is that if we are truly 🎶 following Our Own Path then we don't 🧘really need anybody else's philosophy or method but our Own Path in the Present🌞
Everybody gangster till Neitszche tears you down with 1 sentence
'Empathic'
This video saved my day and my year-end, thank you, it gave me the strength I was looking for a long time inside me...
I really appreciate your videos. Those words are beyond words. These are the most important lessons, indeed. Thank you very much.
Loving these Nietzsche episodes 😎👍
How do we know what an authentic life actually is when we (and therefore our inner voice) is manipulated and moulded from birth?
I feel like deep down your inner voice cannot be molded. Maybe try some deep introspection. Also if you love something you know you love it
Meditate
Please continue Nietzsche philosophy
Nietzsche-an unique philosopher
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Their authentic self is: regurgitate ancient wisdom, then slap on a custom made 2 minute ad from a company, which sole purpose is to win market-share by advertisement manipulation.
Just let them be..
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After watching this, I feel that Nietzsche and I would have been best friends.
Then again he may have authentically told you're boorish and needy.
No, because he would have been MY best friend 😋
This is coincidental that it is I who said.. “True speech is core free speech.” Authenticity.. is my product. People here and in the psychological world buzz word Authenticity freely but it derives from a logical process i follow beginning in 2004 then expressed publicly. First use of this term in this context.. is name this process to live authentically in the moment… moment by moment!!
Gianni700 this guy is one of my favorite philosophers
The subtitle to Ecce Homo is how to become what you are rather than who you are.
Can one not be authentically interested in gaining respect and recognition?
Wonderful video presentation to advance ideas for a savant philosopher of the ages. Nietzsche's influence is only growing in these dangerous time, and his philosophical and cultural impact has perhaps catapulted him now above Emerson and Schopenhauer to the Olympian level of Plato. With mountain lightning flashes of epochal insightful brilliance in his writings and a seeming OODA Loop strategically, aggressive and dynamite filled writing style, Nietzsche reached the Olympian rings of truth high over the vapid Marxist "intellectuals: of the time. Nietzsche savaged the idols and hollow men philosophers of the day and antiquity. For me, Nietzsche will always be the philosopher for the "day after tomorrow"-- the gauntlet other future philosophers will have to contend in the octagon of ideas, intellectual courage, and exquisite, truth instincts. Steeped in the finest of French, German, and Italian aphoristic styles combined with his expertise in philology and the languages of antiquity Greek, Latin and Hebrew, Nietzsche is a sublime gift to humanity. Modern-day "scholars" are rarely deeply versed in the classical languages of antiquity. As Schopenhauer keenly noted, a scholar will always have a hole in his education without training in the classics of antiquity. If you can read Plato and Aristotle in original Greek with great expertise, you are no longer dependent on some scholar's interpretation of a key inflection point in a passage. Today's professors of propaganda are rarely truth seekers, but merely paid to parrot the establishment line for grants. The professors at the propaganda mills go to great lengths to hide the truth and protect their small moat for either lack of knowledge, courage, or perhaps for sinister and mercenary reasons to keep the students mired in an "establishment matrix-like illusion."
Fortune favors the bold, and in that sense, we all have benefited from Nietzsche's gifts to humanity in his sublime writings without having to undergo his years of intensive scholarship, solitude, sickness, and torment in his relentless, dedicated, and labor of love for the truth. Come out and breathe the pure mountain air of truth where Nietzsche resides. Transcend the matrix and the flickering lights of the cave of modern life as Nietzsche commented, in Twilight of the Idols "..come out of your cave, as the world awaits you as a garden." All the best to those fearless truth-seekers following their own path and rising above the "human all too human" in the quest and adventure for the truth.
I think Nietzsche has always been in a different league than Schopenhauer. Plato (or Socrates for that matter), Nietzsche and Jesus. These three shape todays thought like none other.
To prove my point: every large philosophical movement of today is based on one of these three.
Humanism is a secular version of Christianity.
Scientism is Plato's insistance that knowledge is the only virtue and ignorance the only vice.
The American dream / striving for competence / meritism is Nietzsche's will to power in action.
@@timangar9771 Fascinating observations along with your excellent on-the-mark synopsis. All three of your choices for sure belong on a Mt. Rushmore of philosophical savants. I'm partial to Nietzsche for receiving top placement on Mt. Rushmore, as the German savant is the honorary patron saint of elite Green Beret and Navy Seal forces across the world. Nietzsche achieved this distinction, imo, when he blasted, like an artillery shell, the military truth of life: ".. that which does not destroy you only makes you stronger" onto the spiritual wasteland of modern times. In a world of hollow men, department store mannequin "misleaders" and game show-like hosts receiving university tenure, the call of the wild, the primal urges of nature and the will to power in all full spectrum dimensions are showcasing Nietzsche as truly the "philosopher for the day after tomorrow." Regards for the response.
Very pious man in thjnking
'Though shall not Judge' is Jesus. Nietzsche didn't say, just let everyone do as they please. In Nietzsches eys we have to judge others, but according to our values. This video is slightly misleading.
Sounds like a lot of teaching in the book The Way of the Superior Man
In the first rule... In your given example if we start to do it , first of all it's good to know personality traits , this types of traits always put you in trouble it will waste your time, when you have said solve neighborhood problem that's not our work, so instead of doing that we can accept our personality traits and after we need work on Change it, we can't live with that types of personality traits.
That is correct
Thank very much
Salute and thks ,Sir. Thks.
They say be authentic. I would be sitting on my ass playing video games not talking to anyone all day if I was being authentic. So I have to fake it until I make it but apparently that’s bad.
I am enjoying this video more than Carl Jung.
Thanks!
We shouldn’t judge others as good or bad …. But then judges Wagner for composing music inauthentically and dissolves there friendship that was built on appreciation of both their skills ? But I guess life is just a succession of happenings which could be described as acting on personal preferences ( in some cases judgements). But I do get this point that we need to be honest with ourselves and not join groups where we think we can advance ourselves. Not to be enslaved to others and their concepts that we may actually disagree with at a deep level.
Let's say it's very safe to say him and Wagner had a very fucking weird/connected/torn apart relationship. Even Nietzsche is human in the sense of contradictions. We all have that one person that simply cannot get out of your mind. Especially the mind of someone remotely as bloody poetic and deep as Freddies. I understand your point for sure, but I think the Wagner-Nietzsche connection is truly funny, and complicated.
Graham Trave Maybe he learned from that and that is why he is saying you shouldn't judge etc ....you point out. I read he remained on good terms with Cosima - Wagner's wife tried to reconcile them.
Nietzsche doesn't say he is perfect, he rather talks about an ideal of how one can make their own life worthy or fulfilled, that's his concept of the higher man, I've never found he says he is one...
Ideally these are things we should do. He is human. We all fall short of our ideals.
Thank You
Quelques citations complètes et référencées seraient bienvenues.
Damn Friedrich Neitzche is fucking badas that all im saying! I came to the idea of existentialsim with ever studying ot hearing about it. It just happened that life lead to me this ideal. I respect Friedrich Neitzche so much
Nietzsche: Wagner sold out after his third album, I'm done...
How does this work with psychopathy? Are psychopaths seeking mass appeal/attention and praise?
Mr. DAHMER I've come to the conclusion that you should absolutely be true to yourself. Whatever you want to do. JUST DO IT!
Lol
Yes, making judgements of others can keep us safe?
🙏 thankyou 🙏
If I may be allowed to be honest with what I felt (by no means do I mean to offend) I could hear the rules of nietzsche as something else. Indeed there were points I simply couldn't agree with but there were points I agreed with but to me they had a completely different interpretation.
Is the technical audio side of this video horrendous and painful? I think so
He did not be recognized after, much, but the archetype that Jung talks about operated:- He went to the top at 25 - he hit success - material - but then went down as he had to find the deeper self past the Ego Shell of the material success. He would not want to go back to being famous, materially successful writer for he wouldn't have progressed. He lived his life later as deeper - The Self. That's why he went on the journey from the superficial ego and lived something deeper. You don't want to go back to what you left i.e celebrity status it would be called today; he had that at 25 - he left it - it was empty after a while - no lasting worth. He found all of deeper worth - his philosophy you are here outlining - he had some good days - life - and then he died.and left us this.
I mean it is paradoxical in nature. Aren't we arbitrarily assigning judgment on a specific meta-approach of living by claiming that not being authentic, as Nietzsche defined is bad?
Aren't we also judging those who supposedly follow others' (masses) path as Nietzsche interpreted of Wagner?
How can you tell your inner voice apart from what advertisements and culture tell you to value?
Nietzsche genuinly scares me the more i learn about him. He made this grand statement calling his being every important name in history such as jesus aristotle napoleon. Anyone else who said that I would not believe but this man knew his shit
I was trying to find a way to twist "I'm really lazy" into something positive, but then I understood it wasn't worthy and began doing something productive.
My laziness helped me to prioritize things and do only what is the most important. Essentials in life, for instance : +not buying clutter(instead of throwing&giving away two heavy bags of clothes every two months made in Asia by cheap hard labour I do it once a year and it's like ~4 items) +valueing good friendships (instead of feeling so sensitive about people who do not like me that much I just leave them the fuck alone). I do not drink alcohol, do not use drugs, tobacco and not many sugar and unhealthy foods - I am just lazy to arrange appointments and spend my money and time for a dentist, psychologist, doctor. If I keep my mind and brain healthy I don't need to spend that much energy on this type of stuff and worry about money.😁 Main stream capitalist media is trying to convince us that massive consumption is the only way to be happy, but what if my energy is just wasted. What if I have all the money to buy everything? What happens next? Will I wear 500000 pair of shoes???Ahhhh no, human is too little for it. And look at our planet, human is not needed for any other living creature, even home pet breeds are made by humans, but wildlife animals do not need us. We are destroying this planet, so sometimes the less we do the better. Sorry if I offended hyper optimistic people who do think that mother nature needs us so badly. No, I don't think so.
laziness serves to remind you that you are not connected to any real thing. Nothing wrong with lazyness for the lack of a better term for it. You are just simply at peace with who and where you are. When you are ready to move to another vibration, you will no longer be lazy and will find yourself there. There is nothing wrong, everything is where it is supposed to be. Love xxx
@@wefeelthereforeweexist. Exactly same as me my Sluggish times motivates me to draw, if i watch YT for Art tutorial makes me lazy to draw 😅
I think the key is understanding if laziness is actually avoidance. If it’s avoidance- what are you avoiding.
If you are looking to justify it is probably a sign of avoidance.
@@SamanthaBellerson It's good to avoid some things.
Hey Philosophies for life ! Great video! However, my question is what exactly do you follow and belief ? ! Would love to know 😁 peace 💯✌🏼
authenticity is difficult especially when giving up attachment.
Came to your channel first time, loved it 💖 and subscribed
What about murderers and child rapists do we have the right to call them wrong according to Nietzsche?
Nietzsche had a big problem with Christian idea if sin and god's judgement and that reflects in his thinking. That said he would be propably honest about it and say that due to the lack of ultimate "God's eye" point of view he can not rationally conclude anything to be good or bad.
Always be yourself & please yourself its the only way to be happy
Amor- fati you must embrace your fate
There’s a problem with existentialism, specifically Jean Paul Sartre’s concept of “existence precedes essence”
First “existence precedes essence” needs to be explained. Existence is consciousness, while essence is genetic and environmental makeup. In traditional (by which I mean non-existentialist) western philosophy, essence always precedes existence. We are defined by our genetic and environmental characteristics; they determine our behaviour. Generally shared genetic and environmental characteristics across the species are typically termed “human nature”. Existentialism rejects the existence of a common human nature by proposing that existence comes before essence, meaning that our consciousness has the opportunity to determine how we feel about the world around us independent of our basic genetic and environmental characteristics.
Of course, there are certain limitations to this that existentialists recognise-a person cannot by force of consciousness wish for different genetic characteristics or environmental background. One cannot simply will oneself into a bird or will an abusive childhood away. What the existentialists do propose, however, is that since one’s consciousness comes first, one can choose how to respond to or feel about one’s genetic background or environmental characteristics, both historically and in the present moment. Taken together, genetics and environment are typically referred to by existentialism as “facticity”, the objective facts about the external world that the consciousness can respond to in a variety of ways. Importantly, because under existentialism the consciousness has the opportunity to choose how to respond, there can be no determinism and consequently no prediction of human behaviour based on general principles. It also means that people have personal responsibility for everything that they do and are autonomous individuals, a very popular and comforting belief.
The key problem with this is that if the consciousness, the thing deciding how to respond to facticity, is not itself made up of facticity-of genetic and environmental background and structuring-what is it? Existentialism proposes that existence comes first, but how can a consciousness exist produced from no source with a fundamental facticity? Furthermore, we know scientifically that consciousness is produced by a physical implement-the brain. If you damage a person’s brain, the level of consciousness will decline. Imagine, for example, that a person is confronted with a given situation and asked how to respond to that situation-in other words, how that person’s consciousness will respond to the facticity. The answer the person would likely give would be very different if, prior to asking the question, I removed a portion of the person’s brain known to handle say, critical thinking. What this means is that existence cannot precede essence-in order to have consciousness, one must have a functional brain, and the facticity of that brain-its genetic characteristics and environmental influences, will give one a nature that will limit one’s scope of response to a given situation or stimulus. It is as if one attempts to evaluate the properties of a metal using a lens made of the very same metal-one cannot know what impact the lens is having on the analysis and on the data, but one thing is certain, and that is that, unless the metal is absolutely perfect for use in lenses, the data is going to be both inaccurate and useless.
This is not to say that a person cannot choose to view a situation differently in accordance with existentialist teaching, but it does mean that the extent to which a person can view a situation differently or take personal responsibility for behaviour is dependent upon that given person’s nature. In other words, ability to, from time to time transcend one’s nature must, inevitably, come from a nature that permits occasional self-transcendence. Existentialism is not metaphysical truth, but people can be of a nature such that they are inclined to ethically aspire to it.
This has grave implications. Because existentialism and ethic of personal responsibility appeal to some people due to their nature, those people embrace existentialism and personal responsibility and expect others to do so. Their existentialism by definition precludes them from recognising or acknowledging that non-existentialists are not of a nature such that they can embrace or practise existentialism. This leads to unrealistic expectations on the part of existentialists. Their own seeming transcendence of their nature is in fact an expression of their nature, but they nonetheless expect other people to be able to do the very same thing despite lacking natures favourable to self-transcendence. The typical existentialist response to the existence of these inherently non-existentialist individuals is one of condemnation-their unwillingness to take personal responsibility is deemed an intellectual or moral failing, when in fact it is a consequence of their nature, as immutable as the existentialist’s own ability to decide to see a situation or a fact in a different light. A person inclined to self-transcendence is every bit as locked into that behaviour as a person who is disinclined is locked into disinclination.
What is the result? The widespread belief by those with the inherent natural psychological ability to overcome difficult upbringings or unfavourable genetic backgrounds that those who don’t have failed to take responsibility and are themselves deficient. This leads to a lack of sympathy and a lack of compassion, and our political policies reflect the dominance of the existentialist ideology. Those who are poor are assumed to be lacking in virtue or initiative due to incompetence, immorality, or irresponsibility rather than a nature and upbringing that not only makes success difficult, but makes choosing to transcend said nature and upbringing difficult, if not biologically and psychologically impossible.
This existentialist belief that denies nature altogether either denies neuroscience and asserts that consciousness comes from something immaterial or requires that our brains act independently of their own structure. In either case, it is extremely unreasonable, and leads to equally unreasonable consequential beliefs that require the impossible from one’s fellow man. It is self-delusive and a philosophical dead end. It leads to a total misunderstanding of the nature of man and of man’s possibilities. It would be wise to put it aside and resume the age old discussion of what elements in man’s nature are most critical in understanding what man’s limits are and how man can best organise societies and projects in consequence of and in accordance with those limits. It is no more sensible to reject man’s behavioural limits than it is to reject man’s inability to fly or subsist underwater. Better to recognise those limits and devise tools and structures that help us to surmount them than to jump off of cliffs and hope to will ourselves to survive the splat.
Just leaving a comment to see if anyone responds to this.
So...."if your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme"
Jiminy Cricket
Dont you see the aburdity in that you wrote a so long comment about this on a platform where you can find videos on Cats acting like hoomans aswell
@@iwtdkmp5081 - I did it on purpose to draw out as many narcissistic oxygen thieves marooned on fantasy island of emotionally disturbed clowns with vodka soaked tampons stuck in their asses . I believe we achieved that and Nietzsche would be pleased.
@@MITMathematica Yes i do belive se finally got the answer that will bring peace. Thank you Jesus!
Sir make videos on ayn rand philosophy too....
Opening your neighbor's mail box is a felony...
I swear you’ve done this same video 20 times
and you keep watching them
NO PROBLEM! Park in my spot? It won't bother me! My inner voice said: call an authentic Tow truck and haul the neighbor's car away! I feel good already. :)
So listening to this will make me not authentic
The quote at 6:48 “and those who were seen dancing….”
Is that a real quote of Nietzsche?
If so, could you please tell me the book’s name.
Hy brother,wanted to ask you a question, what should a person do when he gets bored with his good habits?I'm tired of repeating the same habit over and over again, no matter how good the habit? please tell me the answer...its reqest👍
“Social revolutionaries” - a polite way of saying ‘Nazi’s’
National socialists weren't the only ones.
A real man should Never be fully ashamed as long as he does not failed to protect those who are weak when he could. Todays shameless men(and through all times) have put those weaker in danger by fighting and so on instead of standing up for themselves and just take for example public harassment adult bullying as a man but instead go into action to protect their ego from something they are afraid of the consequences of when there really is NO such consequences but a bit of embarrassment, and often this is just for seconds or minutes ?
While he was certainly a very smart individual, and a great observer Nietzsche's philosophy was not only paradoxical but also hypocritical.
What is hell to the fly, is happiness to the frog. - I don't remember
U said nietzsche showed disgust coz composer was making music for masses which is contradictory to what u said about nietzsche about being non judgmental and vice versa 😆
Please Add subtitles bro
Excellent presentation thank you
Shame is definitely used as thought control in 2022
can you do the subtitle on your next videos
Nietzsche has been incredibly influencial on my thinking but I completely disagree with his moral relativism. I think I am right in saying a culture that stones women to death for the crime of being raped (like in Afghanistan) is not as good as the culture in the west where women have equal rights. I think we are correct to judge this harshly.
I think that proves his point very nicely actually. Because in other cultures they see it as good whereas you see it as bad. That's Nietzsche's point! That there's no "End-All Be-All" moral system. Only what everyone tolerates and agrees on
Same here. There can be some moral relativism but using it as "there's no objective right or wrong so how can we judge" is pathetic.
Any one from career planner patna ...
Owning ourselves is to have our own responsibility.
wonderful video
Jose with an accent on the e
Anybody else finds it ironic that a video about authenticity advertises a product designed to hide your identity?
Kind of a contradictory proposition isn't it? Follow this set of ideas you didn't come up with to be more authentic.
Stirner egoism please
Great!Thanks!