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The problem with Nietzsche work is perhaps its level of implicit V explicit and nuance. People focus on one line and forget the context much like how churches create dogma and ignore the context, fundamentalists make the mistake of their literal interpretation and ignoring the context and nuance. The " woke religion " has bastardised and weaponised compassion and empathy to an absurd degree but compassion and empathy are a necessary part of social cohesion , I think your EXCELLENT final summary of Nietzsche reflected his overall approach. If everyone accepted on an individual level their responsibility to accept Amor Fati there would be a lot more stability in the world, I think Nietzsche was describing the enactment of a mode of being in the world and to resist the worship of a being, much like Peterson does, I don't believe you can create values but instead choose values to prioritise. One mode of being resonates with the framework of the human brain for the optimal social and psychological benefit for the majority, more than other prioritised value structures. I think because Nietzsche wasn't explicit is why people have contrasting views which in itself is an interesting fact about humans , he certainly makes you think.
It’s very likely this will get lost in the sea of comments, but: It’s pretty much an instant click if I see a video on Nietzsche. He’s probably the thinker I cherish most, and I think you tend to offer the interpretation I have found best and most fleshed-out. You give him all the nuance he deserves and I would even argue I’m sad I didn’t get to see you presenting while I was attending the Nietzsche seminar at UC Berkeley. It’s especially fun when I can anticipate to which words you’ll be going. I came close to crying when you mentioned the “stern father figure.” I love your content and I so appreciate what you’re doing with this channel. Here’s to your ever-growing power!
And Joseph does a great job reviewing ideas that are worth living. I need to re-re-read Nietzsche , especially now when it seems consumerism has become the only religion.
Great that he uses that passage from Zarathustra. It's probably my favorite of all. But he left out the line: "Do not worship at the feet of statues lest one fall on you!"
You came close to 'crying?' it's Nietzche, not the Note Book. I've read Nietzche, taken extensive notes and he's not all that. He was quite confused about so much, and he rambled and tried to sound like he knew when he had no idea what he was talking about. People who think he was all that are 20th century thinkers.
it was? Like half his ideas can be summed up as: * might makes right * you dont need a system to do things * there is a higher form of humans and lower humans exist to serve them The West was full of thugs who match that. He doesnt praise Napoleon for spreading civil rights across Europe he praises him for conquest.
True, but he must have some company. I thought some of his complaints were valid, at least in part. I read the one book where he's down on Socrates (among other things). It got repetitive, but that may have been his editor or his sister's fault
@@magncentLLC his on the genealogy of morals gives a much more thorough understanding of where hes coming from being so critical of socrates. the unfortunate thing about nietzsche is that his thought is so widespread, and to truly understand it, you must do quite a bit of reading, haha. i do think its well worth it, though. he is a profound thinker and among the most impactful philosophers. and regardless of whether you disagree with him and to what degree you disagree, he is a phenomenal writer and truly captures that adventurous literary spirit
I don't think Zarathustra hates the weak, I think he hates that people identify with their weakness because it gives insecurity artificial power that destroys lives.
I think Nietzsche does hate the weak, he just defines the weak as people like you described. Take bodybuilders for example. He would look at a number of them and call them weak. Clearly they're physically strong, but if they're only getting physically strong to massage a weak ego or because other people told them to value being strong they're using slave logic. On the other hand, if they act out of singular internal will less dependent on other forces, he'd approve.
I think Nietzsche himself had quite a bit of contempt for the weak because they're just as power hungry but they try to attain it in underhanded ways, like inverting the hierarchy with bogus morals.
It's also important to remember his closest friends, who were well known thinkers, did not read his work when he sent it to them. They thought he was a lessor mind.😮
@@jacobwiren8142 Ironically, its because he addressed more of those "slave minds" he hated so much. Every misogynic social looser (as N. was) just identifies with him.
I suspect that he had a large and intimidating shadow self, considering how such an apparently mild and amiable gentleman harboured these ideals of a self-sufficient Ubermensch
That's my primary criticism of this video. The essentialsalts podcast is several dozen hour-long (sometimes longer) episodes about various aspects of Nietzsche's writings, something that just can't be done in a 33 minute video.
@@crankyeldergod709Essential salts I also lose attention, fall asleep 😂, very thorough but monotone. I like Uberboyo & BAP too. Even Jordan Peterson. Anything Nietzsche is good IMO so many takes by each it never gets old.
Fun fact, "I'm a fan of Nietzsche" in polish can be said "Jestem fanem Nietzschego" which sounds like "Jestem fanem niczego" meaning "I'm a fan of nothing" xD
Agreed, i believe he should be first, because he lays the guidelines of how to interpret time/place, motives of reasoning and can see how his intellectual ideas compared to others!
@@cxxmax nah he set up the most beautiful way of life! Here nor there is the best kind of being. You take everything with good heart, but you understand how everything can have anonym and how it can be something you exactly dont want and avoid. He teaches the most calibrating ideology ever to exists, give it alittle here. I'm almost done :)
Yeah. Even if you come out on the entirely opposite end of Nietzsche, going through his thought is an absolute must. He really challenges the entirety of the western philosophical, religious, and moral tradition up to his point.
The great dr michael sugrue, concludes his own lecture on nietszche making a point out of how he questioned everything, even socrates, saying he plagued western culture with all his reasoning, but doing that, being the philosopher wih the hammer, in a way he perfectly continued the western tradition of philosophy that he inherited and eventually passed on, I think that’s really poetic and profound
"Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the philosophers with the most potential in the whole world, not only in the West, not only in Germany. His insights are significant for everybody. But he was misunderstood by all his contemporaries. That's the usual fate of every genius. It is almost routine, not an exception but a rule, that the genius is bound to be misunderstood by his contemporaries, for the simple reason that he is far ahead of his time. So there is always a revival after the death of a genius. It may take one hundred years, two hundred years, but a genius always has a revival. It is unfortunate that by the time people start understanding him, he is no more. And he suffers the misunderstandings all around him his whole life. He lives almost alone, with no communication with his contemporaries; and by the time he is being understood, he is no more. He never comes to know the people who will understand him. So it was absolutely certain that Friedrich Nietzsche would have a great revival, and his words and his insights would be echoed all over the world - not only in the world of philosophy, but in the world of religion, morality, aesthetics. Whatever he touched, he always brought something absolutely new to it. And that's the trouble - because for thousands of years people have understood a thing in a certain way. When a person like Nietzsche turns all the tables - which centuries have founded - and alone, single-handedly, fights against the whole past, it is a very difficult situation - and more so for a Western philosopher who has no understanding of meditation. He naturally gets very frustrated. It is bound to bring him insanity - the misunderstanding of the people. Everybody misunderstands him. In the world full of millions of people, there is not a single person with whom he can have a heart-to-heart contact, communion. He is in a desert - it drives him mad. That's what happened with Nietzsche. He lived a life of immense frustration, because he was giving great insights to the world; and in return - only condemnation. He was bringing new light - and not a single friendly response.... Even his friends were not friendly about his philosophical approaches. That finally drove Nietzsche to madness; he died a madman. His death in madness is a condemnation of the whole Western approach. In the East people have been misunderstood, but because there was an underlying meditative silence and peace and contentment, and a deep understanding that this is just how things are - they are bound to be misunderstood - there was a natural acceptance of it. They were not frustrated, they were not angry; they were not going insane or committing suicide. But in the West it has been almost always the situation with every great philosopher - the misunderstanding from all corners, from all dimensions, and the deep expectation of the person of being understood. He is not a meditator; he cannot accept the situation of misunderstanding, that it is natural, that he cannot do anything about it, that he will be understood when the time is ripe. He will not be here.... But it does not matter whether he is understood or not: he is perfectly contented that whatever is true to him he is giving to the world. Now it is up to the world when to understand, or not to understand it. He is not dependent in any way on the response of people. But Western philosophy, Western religion both have missed the quality of meditation. And that creates a new thing. When a man like Nietzsche goes mad, the enemies, who are all around - the people who misunderstood him and drove him mad - take advantage of the situation of his being mad. They start saying that it is his philosophy which is basically wrong, that has driven him mad. His madness becomes a proof that he is a wrong man - that he is not only mad today, he has always been mad. Whatever he has said is insane. So it becomes a more solid ground on which to refute the person completely, to erase him completely - and that's what happened with Nietzsche. But a revival was certain. You cannot continue to misunderstand something which has even a little bit of truth in it - and Nietzsche has tremendous insights. If they can all be understood, it will help the Western mind to change many things. For example, Nietzsche was the only one - even in his madness he would not sign his name without writing over his signature "Antichrist." Even in his madness that much was absolutely certain to him: that he was anti-Christ, that Christ has created a tradition which is immensely dangerous to humanity, that he has polluted the human mind, even about small things. Where Christ had always been praised, people were surprised that Nietzsche would find a very solid criticism. For example, when Christ says, "If somebody slaps you on one cheek, give him the other too," Nietzsche was the first man to say that this is an insult to the man who has slapped you. Now, it needs a certain intelligence to understand what he is saying. He is saying, in giving him the other cheek you are reducing him to subhumanity; you are becoming a god. Behave like a human being: give him a good slap the way he has given you one. And the argument that looked very strange to the Christians who were his contemporaries, was very simple: "In this way you are proving equality. 'I am also a human being. If you hit me, then I will hit you. I am not a god, I cannot forgive you.' All those who have been trying to forgive are very subtle egoists. They are enjoying reducing the other person almost to an animal. That is worse than hitting the man back hard! Just behave like man to man." And you can watch it: the person who gives his other cheek - you can see in his eyes and in his face and in his words great pride and great ego. Even when Jesus himself on the cross asks, "Father, forgive these people, because they do not understand what they are doing," he is still trying to prove on the cross the same thing for which he is being crucified - that everybody is ignorant and only he knows."
He was well regarded by those who knew him as well mannered and very polite. He had only a few close friends like most of us. He went insane mostly because of a congenial disease he inherited from his father whom he loved.
I wish I could just put you in my pocket and consult you whenever I'm reading anything. You're a great illustration of the value of knowledge (over mere information).
Ok, I'm listening to your video while working on something else and you said "...because of the cool-looking facial hair in the thumbnail.." that got me, lol! Aside from that, your presentations are fun to watch. Something about philosophy is needed from time to time. Thank you! 🤙
Nietzsche shook me awake from a detrimentally docile nature. I'm still a very caring person but growth and triumph, the exertion of will and asserting yourself over others will enhance your liberty and mobility. I take a balanced and tempered approach depending on the outcome I desire.
Exerting yourself over others? What do you mean by that? All others I understand, but I don't understand what exactly you mean by exerting yourself over others.
oH mY DeTrImEnTaLlY dOciLE NAtUrE!! tHe OuTcOmE I dEsIrE!!! You are obviously trying to appear intelligent but intelligent people don't write like they wank on a thesauras anyone can do that. They can convey complicated topics simply, not attempting to garb it in superfluous language to deceive people with false profundity.
I recently booked up on Nietzche because I was planning to make a similar video haha, although I ended up abandoning it. I am far from a Nietzche glazer, but I think there's an important nuance to the way Nietzsche views power. To Nietzsche, the will to power isn't related to one's ability to exert influence over other people, rather, it's one's ability to think independently and have the pride to not allow society to have an influence over you. I think with this interpretation, a lot of Nietzsche's work becomes a lot more palatable, as it makes his work a lot less darwinian-might makes right, and more about self actualization.
So happy to be able to catch this one early, absolutely love these videos of yours! You always deliver on the stand of logic and not lost in human bias. Please keep going!
Nietzsche was well aware that his ideas would be misconstrued because not everyone has the same degree of sensitivity to understand the seemingly contradictory and nuanced nature of his works.
Your videos on Nietzsche pushed me to try to read "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and I have to say it's weirdly enjoyable. I haven't read much philosophy before (basically only some Plato and Nicomachean Ethics), so I'm quite lost, but the sheer experience of tackling something way above my level is a really interesting one.
The idea that the strong naturally become the elite is simply not true. Strength has something to do with one’s skill both physically and mentally. But power has something to do with one’s ability to influence others. Power is usually something that is inherited and not something that is earned. So the powerful are powerful independent of their skill.
examples? whatever you can inherit you can build self and pass on it's just harder as it's easier to copy lazily than transform self against copying by default but making self organically gives the true self not sense of being just another copy in line, what's not bad by itself but a bit too dependent good seed can produce had offspring as well so no guarantee inheritance is passed
examples? whatever you can inherit you can build self and pass on it's just harder as it's easier to copy lazily than transform self against copying by default but making self organically gives the true self not sense of being just another copy in line, what's not bad by itself but a bit too dependent good seed can produce had offspring as well so no guarantee inheritance is passed
Thanks again for the upload. I've said it a bunch but your videos help me get through work, and I still send your videos to friends if they're interested in philosophy.
This channel has taught me that, despite never coming in direct contact with any of Nietzsche’s works, my view on power and weaknesses is incredibly Nietzschean in nature. The only noteworthy differences being that I denote internal power as strength and that power and strength are different. Additionally I view that strength and weakness are both opposites and respective paths to walk as opposed to character traits. I also characterize strength as the persistent attempt to overcome adversity ,whether it be internal or external, weakness as the failure or willful rejection of the following, and power as an amplifier to both. Overall this video( as well as many others of yours) have been eye opening in regard to how my personal philosophy relates to some of history’s greats. TLDR, phenomenal video, you’ve earned a new sub.
@cxxmax He did say it in his book "Ecce Homo". Here is the complete quote of the same: I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite. Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo.
Nietzsche was ahead of his time, he questions the very things which we consider scared. And quite frankly he is so original philosopher and original people always get hated.
Interesting overivew. You are right on both counts: his thought was far more nuanced than many critics allow, but equally, you simply cannot refine/redefine away many of its frankly problematic aspects. He did indeed produce a thought-provoking and valuable critique of Western morality. Nevertheless, Nietzsche was evidently a deeply troubled, asocial (borderline misanthropic) individual. It is surely no coincidence that the demographic most drawn to his work centres notably around teenage boys/young men. I have to admit, while never a fan, I was infiinitely more impressed by him in my youth. On experiencing the richness (joy & tragedy) of life more fully, the following decades have led me more to a place of pity than outright admiration.
I think philosophy in general gets further and further disconnected from reality over the generations. I think Nietzsche saw these short comings and tried to correct for it with his new philosophy but he made his own mistakes.
@@anguineus_vir because their argument or proposition, whatever it is, is so out of context that I can’t believe that commentator read a single book, thus I see no reason to explain, it’s too much, with that amount of knowledge they better read more
@@Detective_depther the phrasing itself that philosophy gets further and further away from reality is essentially a statement on the history of philosophy and human thought. Firstly, it’s extremely Eurocentric, because Asian philosophy has its own history and development. It is simply wrong to put them in the same basket. Secondly, there were philosophers who gave good arguments against such a position, and there are lots of them. Open Kant’s critique of Pure Reason if you need an example. Lastly, another example, history of German classical philosophy, which lasted around 2-3 centuries, from 17-19th, can be described as a journey from idealism to materialism. Philosophers literally went from criticizing and arguing vague ideas about god to more concrete things like economics and psychology. The final thing that the author implies that Nietzsche would probably criticize contemporary philosophy, while it’s not the case, a decent percent of contemporary philosophers take Nietzsche as their starting point.
Nietzche saved me from deep depression so I always have a soft spot for him. I was almost consumed by nihilism but his ideas turned out to be the way out for me. The promise of self-actualization via will to power actually works, but it takes time, effort and discipline. And i'm willing to bet not many people can have such a strong motivator to break out of their habits, especially if their life is already in a reasonably good state.
I think from your presentation Nietzsche was an Uber Edgelord, who because of his own Fragility realised that to defeat our own tendency to be complacent, we had to take the time and energy to think for ourselves, and overcome our own inertia to reach our own potential of feeling truly alive. I find it unsurprising that he came out of the time where the world was industrialised, had consumerism driven by encouraging people to direct our resentment into buying status instead. This would be the new religion instead. How could one find oneself in that? Perhaps Nietzsche was the first postmodernist? This was a great presentation. As an introductiin to Nietzsche it was really illuminating.
You're correct about industrialization, but he's more aggressive to the whole concept of capitalism. He denounced communism as no better than capitalism. He denounced with profound expression Christian and Fascist, as he names them both as one. The Fascist is like the Christian. They collect all that anger and place it on people or "values" like they did in the Roman empire.
Was he an edge lord? You're wrong. 1. Nietzche placed Jesus as one of the greatest minds to ever lived. He convinced himself that life was painful and he must escape it, to find eternal happiness with the father. 2. This idea drove Nietzche to one question. Why is Christianity values better than Ancient values(especially the Greek, he loves the greeeks).
3. What makes Christianity so much better(this was Nietzches' question). When we have a history of it, forcing people to be closed-minded. It forces people to live in the present without thinking of the future. They seek to find happiness constantly, and when they don't have it, they escape, and they complain about pain. They become anti-life, and they seek only pleasure. 4. Nietzche points to the Renaissance era as the revaluation of all values by the Italians. An attempt to escape Christianity. Popes hired painters to depict the battles of the titans vs. ZEUS. The King and Pope give Raphael money so he can paint "The School of Athens" in the church! The leaders are becoming questionable of Christianity. They are becoming artist, poets. They give money to artist and inventors. They are becoming human. 5. Martin Luther came in and stopped that by using revolts against the new philosophers. Ap. 61 page 198 "the antichrist" "If we never get rid of Christianity, then blame the Germans" Again, he proves it to be correct when in context to America today. The new Christians are also conservatives by nature, "Don't do this because it's against God's punishments" or things like this or they become resentment and give rise to Fascist. If you read all of it, in other words Nietzche is preventing Edgelords from taking over the intellectual movement. Since they represent anti-life, anti-power, anti progression of life.
I feel like you're taking it a bit far, but at the same time I can see where this picture might get painted from, and I think that his decision to go with power and talking about power, is sourcing from a place of fear not of a place of truth, I feel like only a man who is truly forced to face the wall with no running away could be true, and be much more approachable and admirable and relatable, take the man in the iron lung for example, that person truly had no where to run, just hear what he had to say and how admirable and kind he was, he found happiness and strength when he would be stuck to a machine, where Nietzsche, did face a lot of despair, but he could always find ways to escape it, and escape ideas or having to deal with stuff, and so I believe that while he might truly became a great man that did overcome a lot of himself, he like all of us had a taste and projection from parts of him that has effected the way he would speak and think, like having a taste in woman and man.
"Why I am so Wise" is my favourite. Bought it for a light read not knowing who he was or what others thought about him - 17 years ago. Must have jumped in and out of it for 10 years still ignorant of other's views. I've never read his other works. Started looking him up on TH-cam a year ago. Nothing aligned with my interpretation until your post! He briefly mentions a rare type of individual he'd noticed: one who is immune by nature to fall into either category of motivation (an infantile ignorance). He says they need protection and should be valued above all. I've met a few of them, strangely un assuming. Thanks for the post.😊
I haven't read any Nietzsche but this sounded like a really good and balanced introduction to his character and works which will probably enable me to be able to more easily read his works Excellent video essay 👍
Didn't know he had reverance for Indian thought. Schopenhauer's understanding of India would transfer to Nietzche, it is just beautiful to know and think about!
funny how this comment section in particular either hails him or still discards his thoughts. well you gave it a good shot to give some perspective to whom he seemed to be.
I and a friend of mine were discussing this very philosopher! i just had remarked how bold his statement was about god being dead when i saw you uploaded this video! well thanks to this i was able to show him my most favorite youtuber ! And thanks to all this, now you have a new subscriber! Thank you for your hard work! personally i like some of Nietzsche's theories but yeah some of them are theories i dont agree with.
Nieztsche is a paneuropeanist and has a european pagan morality. Just reading the beginning of Thus spoke Zarathustra, he is the anti-leftist / anti-christian philosopher and the most important philosopher of the modern world.
this paganism never created any empire and only empires last culturally wiping out all smaller even more organic systems his idea was leaving lawly ordered mir into warzone to come back as a hero with a legitimacy on heavenly hierarchy he was meritocratic so antiaristocratic in sense of only inheriting anything through blood and not through also spirit of this bloodline
Everyone? I studied philosophy for several years (in university as well as on my own) and I ended my journey with him. Nobody has ever understood human (which includes philosopher's) psychology and the nature of reality like him. Or at least no one had the balls to say it like he did.
Hey brother i know my question is gonna be off topic but can u make a video or short about why son wukong hated buddha or god, like i know its really different than philosophy but still what was his reasons for that hating i justs wants to know his psychology, i m going to read journey to the west sonner or later so i might get my answer still pls think about it 🤞 , and if anyone in comments know pls let me know so his efforts of making a whole video will be spared or i dont know english is not my native, sorry for bad eng 🤞😅
I don't believe religious belief is cowardice, and I don't believe lack of belief is cowardice; but if I had no other choice then I'd argue that defying the supposed omnipotent creator of the universe who could torture your soul for eternity is not something a coward would do
@@psyok I yield to the surpassing intellect you levy upon us in between your many rounds of sex-having. Please save some maidens for the rest of us oh supreme euphoric genius.
You are very generous with religious beliefs for an atheistic intellectual, which makes me much more able to listen to you as an entrenched agnostic. Interesting stuff, thank you!
27:4729:17 I hope most reasonable people understand that some people can and do have more favorable overall gene expressions. That is not to say that those with more unfavorable gene expressions are sub-humans or less deserving of respect. I think it is fair to say that acquiring external power or becoming a “great man” demands more internal power from one with more disadvantageous gene expressions than one with more advantageous gene expressions. I say this as someone born with two clubbed feet and a spinal deformation and has an autoimmune disease that severely limits my mobility and energy levels. It quite simply requires less of my wife to make a cup of coffee, for example, than it does of myself. Yet, still, I make my own coffee (even if I need two hands to hold a mug some days), I make her coffee, I do most of the pet care, I do half the housework, I work a full-time job, and I am the primary income for the household.
It's not really an objection in principle but maybe a word of caution there: What traits we treat as desirable will be changing constantly as societies evolve, so I think it is almost arrogant to assume that we know what a "powerful" person looks like. Ancient greeks would hardly have found a use for people like Stephen Hawkings, but today he has been one of the most influential physicists. If we exercise indiscriminate care and compassion, sometimes people surprise us
Your clubbed feet are not genetic. That's a sign of malnutrition on the womb. Check out "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Dr. Price. I hope it helps.
I think humanity is well past the concept of gene favorability, as the individual's need for physical prowess is diminishing rapidly and is being continuously replaced by technology. This is also why I scoff at the concept of male superiority (I'm a male). I believe it’s high time we elevate intellectual pursuit to its rightful place on a higher pedestal and stop obsessing over barbaric and twisted ideals like the golden ratio and the notion of 'blessed genes.
you can fix yourself with diet and addressing limiting genes understanding what problem they cause and supplementing it like mthfr gene curse of 44%+ western/asian folks because evolution doesn't care about details and stops at good enough to not die
8:34 that is what I would hope he meant, idk if that's just bc that's what I think lol. But I absolutely love your videos brother, these videos are awesome.
I liked the mention to what his sister did to his work. His elitism seems closer to Ancient Greece than the Third Reich. And to be real, most of us only hate the humongous mustache...All the fangirling over Napoleon is a tiny bit annoying too but we can live with that.
hello, i am very loyal viewer since ~july at 7:39 nietzsche has been subtitled as nature. probably auto dictate's fault but anyway love/loving the content/analysis as always. i love winding down to philosophical concepts being beautifully explained to me
I believe to understand Nietzsche better, not only his texts should be read, but also those which Nietzsche read. Another person for your list of people who Nietzsche admired is Montaigne, and Montaigne honestly does not give the ensemble of the strong, powerful Übermensch. He was shy, humble, made himself small in half of his texts. But he was also honest, probably more honest than any other person in his time, and Nietzsche loved that. Montaigne also gave rebirth to the antique scepticism, which seems to me the predecessor of Nietzsches perspectivism. Nietzsches story for Christianity is, that Saint Augustine banned Scepticism as it is found in Pyrrhon of Elis, Sextus Empiricus, etc., to establish an absolute truth, which is then found in God. This is another big thing that Nietzsche really criticizes in Christianity: The believe that there is one, absolute 'truth' as opposed to the philosophy in pyrrhonic scepticism and his own perspectivism and this is also why he writes from these multiple view points when talking about 'God is dead': In one aphorism in 'Joyful Wisdom', God is dead is a good thing and will lead to more freedom, in the next one, it is a bad thing because it may lead to Nihilism. None and both of them are (absolute) true. Regarding the posthum push to Fascism of Nietzsche, I was always stunned by this quote: “I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”
The way I've always read Nietzsche is a focus on free will and absolute accountability for ones actions. Men like Napoleon and Caesar never made excuses for what they did; they had a goal, they struggled through hardships seeking to achieve it, and they owned the consequences of their actions, both success and failure. He was first and foremost an Individualist and despised conformity for it's own sake. Far better that two men disagree honestly than pretend to be in agreement for personal ease or to meet social expectations.
Nietzsche was obviously struggling to deal with his own weaknesses and trying to live vicariously through his ideal of power both personal and social. Lot of cope IMHO, and, for my tastes, not very nice or positive cope.
Nietzsche did not want man to impose self-limitations on himself. And one Great limitation was to say this world is NOT the real world and that you should live a certain way to reach the real world of heaven in which you enter by doing x,y and z in this world.
What strong / weak means in this context? You might say that if you are strong, you don't need to control others; or you can say strong is whoever Will control others.
Its like beyond good and evil ,the moment you listen to five minites you have go back and re listen ....its so much too take it thats its over whelming....i got 1/ 3 of the way through beyond good and evil and a paragraph regarding epilepsy just hit me so hard ,i just said ," how did he know ," i put the book and have not picked it up since ,iv got epilepsy and he knew things about epilepsy that are only been addressed properly in the last 10 year by neurology.
to what extent does Big Freddy believe in free will? is he suggesting that our will is something largely beyond our control, and that we have to get our minds in tune with it? or is it a force we can harness and use to affect change in the world? or something else? i'm not clear on the relationship between will, mind, and action in Nietzsche.
I love Nietzsche. I don't agree with everything he said, but he wouldn't want me to anyways; and I can think of no better way to honor him than disagreement. Though despite my disagreements, he is my favorite philosopher.
I didn't. Also sprach Zarathustra was and is by far my most favorite book. Also read his biography. He is a person who makes you think. You have to consider his life and upbringing, therefore his character. Every character produces it's own vibration.
Nietzche ended up falling into the same fallacy that many a moral man did in the past. Like the Indian gurus that he admired, he says "take me not as a master, I am but a humble man who seeks nirvana for himself". Yet he also says "don't love me as a man but I hope you love my ideas so that we can all rise up as übermensch and meet each other at a mountain top". So, just like a guru, he claims not to be a teacher while also depending on others to learn from his teachings. The moment you teach anyone anything, you become a teacher and them students. You can beat around the bush all you want, play on semantics but the effect remains firmly attached to the cause. So, is his avoidance of being loved and cherished not an escape from living? Does he not contradict himself by telling all to get power and then refuse it for himself? The man didn't have power on his own sister and how his works were tempered with after his death for crying out loud! And therein lies the need to criticize Nietzsche, because often people advocate for whatever they have the least. Nietzsche wasn't a powerful, influential man in life and woe to those who get recognition only after their death. I can't think of anything more futile.
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Amazing analysis as always 💯
The problem with Nietzsche work is perhaps its level of implicit V explicit and nuance.
People focus on one line and forget the context much like how churches create dogma and ignore the context, fundamentalists make the mistake of their literal interpretation and ignoring the context and nuance.
The " woke religion " has bastardised and weaponised compassion and empathy to an absurd degree but compassion and empathy are a necessary part of social cohesion , I think your EXCELLENT final summary of Nietzsche reflected his overall approach.
If everyone accepted on an individual level their responsibility to accept Amor Fati there would be a lot more stability in the world, I think Nietzsche was describing the enactment of a mode of being in the world and to resist the worship of a being, much like Peterson does, I don't believe you can create values but instead choose values to prioritise.
One mode of being resonates with the framework of the human brain for the optimal social and psychological benefit for the majority, more than other prioritised value structures.
I think because Nietzsche wasn't explicit is why people have contrasting views which in itself is an interesting fact about humans , he certainly makes you think.
Someone who resembles Nietzsche today would be Robert Greene, please can you make video on him and his work (48 laws of power etc.)
"Stuck in bed. Deep crisis. I despise life." -Nietzche
Personally, I'm no longer stubborn and stupid enough to ignore my hatred.
"Being half a step ahead of any era is genius but being a step ahead of any era is madness"
I can't find an attribution for that quote, so I gave you attribution on my website. It's brilliant.
@@Luxcanum Is that a pun
@@NarrowPancakes Literal this time, though I adore puns.
This guy have found the cure for madness😂😂
@@easy8figure am pretty mad myself
It’s very likely this will get lost in the sea of comments, but:
It’s pretty much an instant click if I see a video on Nietzsche. He’s probably the thinker I cherish most, and I think you tend to offer the interpretation I have found best and most fleshed-out. You give him all the nuance he deserves and I would even argue I’m sad I didn’t get to see you presenting while I was attending the Nietzsche seminar at UC Berkeley.
It’s especially fun when I can anticipate to which words you’ll be going. I came close to crying when you mentioned the “stern father figure.”
I love your content and I so appreciate what you’re doing with this channel. Here’s to your ever-growing power!
And Joseph does a great job reviewing ideas that are worth living.
I need to re-re-read Nietzsche , especially now when it seems consumerism has become the only religion.
I don't think Nietzsche was given the nuance he deserved, as the video was just too short. You just can't cover Nietzsche properly in 33 minutes.
Great that he uses that passage from Zarathustra. It's probably my favorite of all. But he left out the line: "Do not worship at the feet of statues lest one fall on you!"
Lmao Berkeley! What a waste of money.
You came close to 'crying?' it's Nietzche, not the Note Book. I've read Nietzche, taken extensive notes and he's not all that. He was quite confused about so much, and he rambled and tried to sound like he knew when he had no idea what he was talking about. People who think he was all that are 20th century thinkers.
its only natural for nietzsche to be so widely hated: his philosophy is an attack on the entire western philosophical tradition!
it was? Like half his ideas can be summed up as:
* might makes right
* you dont need a system to do things
* there is a higher form of humans and lower humans exist to serve them
The West was full of thugs who match that. He doesnt praise Napoleon for spreading civil rights across Europe he praises him for conquest.
True, but he must have some company. I thought some of his complaints were valid, at least in part. I read the one book where he's down on Socrates (among other things). It got repetitive, but that may have been his editor or his sister's fault
It was?
@@magncentLLC his on the genealogy of morals gives a much more thorough understanding of where hes coming from being so critical of socrates. the unfortunate thing about nietzsche is that his thought is so widespread, and to truly understand it, you must do quite a bit of reading, haha. i do think its well worth it, though. he is a profound thinker and among the most impactful philosophers. and regardless of whether you disagree with him and to what degree you disagree, he is a phenomenal writer and truly captures that adventurous literary spirit
@@magncentLLC Deleuze and Foucault love him
I don't think Zarathustra hates the weak, I think he hates that people identify with their weakness because it gives insecurity artificial power that destroys lives.
I think Nietzsche does hate the weak, he just defines the weak as people like you described. Take bodybuilders for example. He would look at a number of them and call them weak. Clearly they're physically strong, but if they're only getting physically strong to massage a weak ego or because other people told them to value being strong they're using slave logic. On the other hand, if they act out of singular internal will less dependent on other forces, he'd approve.
I think Nietzsche himself had quite a bit of contempt for the weak because they're just as power hungry but they try to attain it in underhanded ways, like inverting the hierarchy with bogus morals.
@@ClockwerkMan By my definition of "weakness" Nietszsche was an example of its embodyment and his "philosophy" is just a negative projection.
@@TheDionysianFields I firmly disagree. That's what Nietzsche LIKED about the slaves. What he didn't like was their weak wills, not their cleverness.
@@alena-qu9vj okay? Cool I guess?
I think it's important to remember that Nietzsche had many friends and was described as an amiable and friendly guy.
It's also important to remember his closest friends, who were well known thinkers, did not read his work when he sent it to them. They thought he was a lessor mind.😮
@@jasonblizzard9635 And now those thinkers are largely forgotten, while Nietzsche remains known...
@@jacobwiren8142 Ironically, its because he addressed more of those "slave minds" he hated so much.
Every misogynic social looser (as N. was) just identifies with him.
I suspect that he had a large and intimidating shadow self, considering how such an apparently mild and amiable gentleman harboured these ideals of a self-sufficient Ubermensch
@@cerdic6586as close to ideal as AH to being Arian type
I've been listening to essentialsalts' podcasts about Nietzsche and his ideas. Really a true gem, your timing is insane.
That's my primary criticism of this video. The essentialsalts podcast is several dozen hour-long (sometimes longer) episodes about various aspects of Nietzsche's writings, something that just can't be done in a 33 minute video.
@@crankyeldergod709Essential salts I also lose attention, fall asleep 😂, very thorough but monotone. I like Uberboyo & BAP too. Even Jordan Peterson. Anything Nietzsche is good IMO so many takes by each it never gets old.
Fun fact, "I'm a fan of Nietzsche" in polish can be said "Jestem fanem Nietzschego" which sounds like "Jestem fanem niczego" meaning "I'm a fan of nothing" xD
"czego szukasz?"
"Niczego..."
~ typowa rozmowa w bibliotece
niczego sobie 😂
If you want to exercise your philosophical thinking an analysis of Nietzsche is a must.
Agreed, i believe he should be first, because he lays the guidelines of how to interpret time/place, motives of reasoning and can see how his intellectual ideas compared to others!
Nietzche is a trap. His philosophy traps you in darkness.
@@cxxmax nah he set up the most beautiful way of life! Here nor there is the best kind of being. You take everything with good heart, but you understand how everything can have anonym and how it can be something you exactly dont want and avoid. He teaches the most calibrating ideology ever to exists, give it alittle here. I'm almost done :)
Yeah. Even if you come out on the entirely opposite end of Nietzsche, going through his thought is an absolute must. He really challenges the entirety of the western philosophical, religious, and moral tradition up to his point.
@@cxxmax Nice video on your channel. Wonder why the comments are turned off?
NO VIEWS, WE MADE IT
Haha! You are the first one here!
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 I love your videos, thanks for making them!!!
He'll never "fall off" with your support!
"Now I bid you lose me
And find yourselves;
And only when ye have all denied me
Will I come back to you."
Beautiful
These words are just biblical words re arranged....
@@cxxmaxJust came to say that. You beat me to it.
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@@cxxmaxThat's the point
@@cxxmax Yes, rearranged to have essentially the opposite meaning
The great dr michael sugrue, concludes his own lecture on nietszche making a point out of how he questioned everything, even socrates, saying he plagued western culture with all his reasoning, but doing that, being the philosopher wih the hammer, in a way he perfectly continued the western tradition of philosophy that he inherited and eventually passed on, I think that’s really poetic and profound
RIP Professor
love how u always go so deep about topics in ur videos
"Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the philosophers with the most potential in the whole world, not only in the West, not only in Germany. His insights are significant for everybody. But he was misunderstood by all his contemporaries.
That's the usual fate of every genius.
It is almost routine, not an exception but a rule, that the genius is bound to be misunderstood by his contemporaries, for the simple reason that he is far ahead of his time. So there is always a revival after the death of a genius. It may take one hundred years, two hundred years, but a genius always has a revival.
It is unfortunate that by the time people start understanding him, he is no more. And he suffers the misunderstandings all around him his whole life. He lives almost alone, with no communication with his contemporaries; and by the time he is being understood, he is no more. He never comes to know the people who will understand him.
So it was absolutely certain that Friedrich Nietzsche would have a great revival, and his words and his insights would be echoed all over the world - not only in the world of philosophy, but in the world of religion, morality, aesthetics. Whatever he touched, he always brought something absolutely new to it.
And that's the trouble - because for thousands of years people have understood a thing in a certain way. When a person like Nietzsche turns all the tables - which centuries have founded - and alone, single-handedly, fights against the whole past, it is a very difficult situation - and more so for a Western philosopher who has no understanding of meditation.
He naturally gets very frustrated. It is bound to bring him insanity - the misunderstanding of the people. Everybody misunderstands him. In the world full of millions of people, there is not a single person with whom he can have a heart-to-heart contact, communion. He is in a desert - it drives him mad. That's what happened with Nietzsche.
He lived a life of immense frustration, because he was giving great insights to the world; and in return - only condemnation. He was bringing new light - and not a single friendly response.... Even his friends were not friendly about his philosophical approaches. That finally drove Nietzsche to madness; he died a madman.
His death in madness is a condemnation of the whole Western approach. In the East people have been misunderstood, but because there was an underlying meditative silence and peace and contentment, and a deep understanding that this is just how things are - they are bound to be misunderstood - there was a natural acceptance of it. They were not frustrated, they were not angry; they were not going insane or committing suicide.
But in the West it has been almost always the situation with every great philosopher - the misunderstanding from all corners, from all dimensions, and the deep expectation of the person of being understood. He is not a meditator; he cannot accept the situation of misunderstanding, that it is natural, that he cannot do anything about it, that he will be understood when the time is ripe.
He will not be here.... But it does not matter whether he is understood or not: he is perfectly contented that whatever is true to him he is giving to the world. Now it is up to the world when to understand, or not to understand it. He is not dependent in any way on the response of people.
But Western philosophy, Western religion both have missed the quality of meditation. And that creates a new thing. When a man like Nietzsche goes mad, the enemies, who are all around - the people who misunderstood him and drove him mad - take advantage of the situation of his being mad. They start saying that it is his philosophy which is basically wrong, that has driven him mad.
His madness becomes a proof that he is a wrong man - that he is not only mad today, he has always been mad. Whatever he has said is insane. So it becomes a more solid ground on which to refute the person completely, to erase him completely - and that's what happened with Nietzsche.
But a revival was certain. You cannot continue to misunderstand something which has even a little bit of truth in it - and Nietzsche has tremendous insights. If they can all be understood, it will help the Western mind to change many things.
For example, Nietzsche was the only one - even in his madness he would not sign his name without writing over his signature "Antichrist." Even in his madness that much was absolutely certain to him: that he was anti-Christ, that Christ has created a tradition which is immensely dangerous to humanity, that he has polluted the human mind, even about small things.
Where Christ had always been praised, people were surprised that Nietzsche would find a very solid criticism. For example, when Christ says, "If somebody slaps you on one cheek, give him the other too," Nietzsche was the first man to say that this is an insult to the man who has slapped you.
Now, it needs a certain intelligence to understand what he is saying. He is saying, in giving him the other cheek you are reducing him to subhumanity; you are becoming a god. Behave like a human being: give him a good slap the way he has given you one.
And the argument that looked very strange to the Christians who were his contemporaries, was very simple: "In this way you are proving equality. 'I am also a human being. If you hit me, then I will hit you. I am not a god, I cannot forgive you.' All those who have been trying to forgive are very subtle egoists. They are enjoying reducing the other person almost to an animal. That is worse than hitting the man back hard! Just behave like man to man."
And you can watch it: the person who gives his other cheek - you can see in his eyes and in his face and in his words great pride and great ego. Even when Jesus himself on the cross asks, "Father, forgive these people, because they do not understand what they are doing," he is still trying to prove on the cross the same thing for which he is being crucified - that everybody is ignorant and only he knows."
He was well regarded by those who knew him as well mannered and very polite. He had only a few close friends like most of us. He went insane mostly because of a congenial disease he inherited from his father whom he loved.
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Great video!
I love the way you talk about things. I love that you don't take sides. Do you think you could ever maybe do a video of The Catcher In The Rye?
I wish I could just put you in my pocket and consult you whenever I'm reading anything. You're a great illustration of the value of knowledge (over mere information).
To write anything in this comments section is beneath me. I tried my best not to write this but didn’t have the will power to stop myself. LOL
Ok, I'm listening to your video while working on something else and you said "...because of the cool-looking facial hair in the thumbnail.." that got me, lol! Aside from that, your presentations are fun to watch. Something about philosophy is needed from time to time. Thank you! 🤙
Nietzsche shook me awake from a detrimentally docile nature.
I'm still a very caring person but growth and triumph, the exertion of will and asserting yourself over others will enhance your liberty and mobility.
I take a balanced and tempered approach depending on the outcome I desire.
"Balanced and tempered"? By what? Sounds like you're still exercising a slave morality.
Exerting yourself over others? What do you mean by that? All others I understand, but I don't understand what exactly you mean by exerting yourself over others.
Goofy
Nietzsche rolls over in his grave at the keyboard cringelords he spawned
oH mY DeTrImEnTaLlY dOciLE NAtUrE!! tHe OuTcOmE I dEsIrE!!!
You are obviously trying to appear intelligent but intelligent people don't write like they wank on a thesauras anyone can do that. They can convey complicated topics simply, not attempting to garb it in superfluous language to deceive people with false profundity.
0:56 missed opportunity for "For each of the Nietzsch"
WOW! Excellent analysis of Neitzsche.
A wonder for me to understand Neitzsche now, decades after graduating with BA Philosophy.
Thank you.
I recently booked up on Nietzche because I was planning to make a similar video haha, although I ended up abandoning it.
I am far from a Nietzche glazer, but I think there's an important nuance to the way Nietzsche views power. To Nietzsche, the will to power isn't related to one's ability to exert influence over other people, rather, it's one's ability to think independently and have the pride to not allow society to have an influence over you. I think with this interpretation, a lot of Nietzsche's work becomes a lot more palatable, as it makes his work a lot less darwinian-might makes right, and more about self actualization.
So happy to be able to catch this one early, absolutely love these videos of yours! You always deliver on the stand of logic and not lost in human bias. Please keep going!
Nietzsche was well aware that his ideas would be misconstrued because not everyone has the same degree of sensitivity to understand the seemingly contradictory and nuanced nature of his works.
Your videos on Nietzsche pushed me to try to read "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and I have to say it's weirdly enjoyable. I haven't read much philosophy before (basically only some Plato and Nicomachean Ethics), so I'm quite lost, but the sheer experience of tackling something way above my level is a really interesting one.
you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
The idea that the strong naturally become the elite is simply not true.
Strength has something to do with one’s skill both physically and mentally.
But power has something to do with one’s ability to influence others.
Power is usually something that is inherited and not something that is earned.
So the powerful are powerful independent of their skill.
examples?
whatever you can inherit you can build self and pass on it's just harder as it's easier to copy lazily than transform self against copying by default
but making self organically gives the true self not sense of being just another copy in line, what's not bad by itself but a bit too dependent
good seed can produce had offspring as well so no guarantee inheritance is passed
examples?
whatever you can inherit you can build self and pass on it's just harder as it's easier to copy lazily than transform self against copying by default
but making self organically gives the true self not sense of being just another copy in line, what's not bad by itself but a bit too dependent
good seed can produce had offspring as well so no guarantee inheritance is passed
Thanks again for the upload. I've said it a bunch but your videos help me get through work, and I still send your videos to friends if they're interested in philosophy.
This channel has taught me that, despite never coming in direct contact with any of Nietzsche’s works, my view on power and weaknesses is incredibly Nietzschean in nature. The only noteworthy differences being that I denote internal power as strength and that power and strength are different. Additionally I view that strength and weakness are both opposites and respective paths to walk as opposed to character traits. I also characterize strength as the persistent attempt to overcome adversity ,whether it be internal or external, weakness as the failure or willful rejection of the following, and power as an amplifier to both. Overall this video( as well as many others of yours) have been eye opening in regard to how my personal philosophy relates to some of history’s greats. TLDR, phenomenal video, you’ve earned a new sub.
I am not a man, I am dynamite 🧨
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sounds like an Instagram caption
@cxxmax He did say it in his book "Ecce Homo". Here is the complete quote of the same:
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo.
So Nitze was a AC/DC fan
@@cxxmax Nice video on your channel. Wonder why the comments are turned off?
saying ayyo, baby lets go
(i forgot the song, but faintly remember it)
Nietzsche was ahead of his time, he questions the very things which we consider scared. And quite frankly he is so original philosopher and original people always get hated.
Interesting overivew. You are right on both counts: his thought was far more nuanced than many critics allow, but equally, you simply cannot refine/redefine away many of its frankly problematic aspects. He did indeed produce a thought-provoking and valuable critique of Western morality. Nevertheless, Nietzsche was evidently a deeply troubled, asocial (borderline misanthropic) individual. It is surely no coincidence that the demographic most drawn to his work centres notably around teenage boys/young men. I have to admit, while never a fan, I was infiinitely more impressed by him in my youth. On experiencing the richness (joy & tragedy) of life more fully, the following decades have led me more to a place of pity than outright admiration.
I think philosophy in general gets further and further disconnected from reality over the generations. I think Nietzsche saw these short comings and tried to correct for it with his new philosophy but he made his own mistakes.
Dude, u have no idea what are you talking about, but that’s fine, continue reading, you might learn one day
@@prostoname5338why don't you directly say the things you're not agreeing about instead of criticising without arguments?
@@anguineus_vir because their argument or proposition, whatever it is, is so out of context that I can’t believe that commentator read a single book, thus I see no reason to explain, it’s too much, with that amount of knowledge they better read more
@@prostoname5338 Sounds like you're not able to explain your point, or even pin point the exact reason you disagreed with the original comment
@@Detective_depther the phrasing itself that philosophy gets further and further away from reality is essentially a statement on the history of philosophy and human thought. Firstly, it’s extremely Eurocentric, because Asian philosophy has its own history and development. It is simply wrong to put them in the same basket. Secondly, there were philosophers who gave good arguments against such a position, and there are lots of them. Open Kant’s critique of Pure Reason if you need an example. Lastly, another example, history of German classical philosophy, which lasted around 2-3 centuries, from 17-19th, can be described as a journey from idealism to materialism. Philosophers literally went from criticizing and arguing vague ideas about god to more concrete things like economics and psychology. The final thing that the author implies that Nietzsche would probably criticize contemporary philosophy, while it’s not the case, a decent percent of contemporary philosophers take Nietzsche as their starting point.
Nietzche saved me from deep depression so I always have a soft spot for him. I was almost consumed by nihilism but his ideas turned out to be the way out for me. The promise of self-actualization via will to power actually works, but it takes time, effort and discipline. And i'm willing to bet not many people can have such a strong motivator to break out of their habits, especially if their life is already in a reasonably good state.
I think from your presentation Nietzsche was an Uber Edgelord, who because of his own Fragility realised that to defeat our own tendency to be complacent, we had to take the time and energy to think for ourselves, and overcome our own inertia to reach our own potential of feeling truly alive. I find it unsurprising that he came out of the time where the world was industrialised, had consumerism driven by encouraging people to direct our resentment into buying status instead. This would be the new religion instead. How could one find oneself in that? Perhaps Nietzsche was the first postmodernist? This was a great presentation. As an introductiin to Nietzsche it was really illuminating.
You're correct about industrialization, but he's more aggressive to the whole concept of capitalism. He denounced communism as no better than capitalism. He denounced with profound expression Christian and Fascist, as he names them both as one. The Fascist is like the Christian. They collect all that anger and place it on people or "values" like they did in the Roman empire.
Was he an edge lord? You're wrong.
1. Nietzche placed Jesus as one of the greatest minds to ever lived. He convinced himself that life was painful and he must escape it, to find eternal happiness with the father.
2. This idea drove Nietzche to one question. Why is Christianity values better than Ancient values(especially the Greek, he loves the greeeks).
3. What makes Christianity so much better(this was Nietzches' question). When we have a history of it, forcing people to be closed-minded. It forces people to live in the present without thinking of the future. They seek to find happiness constantly, and when they don't have it, they escape, and they complain about pain. They become anti-life, and they seek only pleasure.
4. Nietzche points to the Renaissance era as the revaluation of all values by the Italians. An attempt to escape Christianity. Popes hired painters to depict the battles of the titans vs. ZEUS. The King and Pope give Raphael money so he can paint "The School of Athens" in the church! The leaders are becoming questionable of Christianity. They are becoming artist, poets. They give money to artist and inventors. They are becoming human.
5. Martin Luther came in and stopped that by using revolts against the new philosophers.
Ap. 61 page 198 "the antichrist"
"If we never get rid of Christianity, then blame the Germans"
Again, he proves it to be correct when in context to America today. The new Christians are also conservatives by nature, "Don't do this because it's against God's punishments" or things like this or they become resentment and give rise to Fascist.
If you read all of it, in other words Nietzche is preventing Edgelords from taking over the intellectual movement. Since they represent anti-life, anti-power, anti progression of life.
I feel like you're taking it a bit far, but at the same time I can see where this picture might get painted from,
and I think that his decision to go with power and talking about power, is sourcing from a place of fear not of a place of truth, I feel like only a man who is truly forced to face the wall with no running away could be true, and be much more approachable and admirable and relatable,
take the man in the iron lung for example, that person truly had no where to run, just hear what he had to say and how admirable and kind he was,
he found happiness and strength when he would be stuck to a machine,
where Nietzsche, did face a lot of despair, but he could always find ways to escape it, and escape ideas or having to deal with stuff,
and so I believe that while he might truly became a great man that did overcome a lot of himself, he like all of us had a taste and projection from parts of him that has effected the way he would speak and think, like having a taste in woman and man.
Literally best take on Nietzsche on the entire internet
"Why I am so Wise" is my favourite. Bought it for a light read not knowing who he was or what others thought about him - 17 years ago. Must have jumped in and out of it for 10 years still ignorant of other's views. I've never read his other works. Started looking him up on TH-cam a year ago. Nothing aligned with my interpretation until your post!
He briefly mentions a rare type of individual he'd noticed: one who is immune by nature to fall into either category of motivation (an infantile ignorance). He says they need protection and should be valued above all. I've met a few of them, strangely un assuming.
Thanks for the post.😊
You do a good job of describing the different perspectives that his work can be looked at through.
Excellent video, as always!
Halfway through Beyond Good And Evil. And here's another drop on Nietzsche. Amazing!
I haven't read any Nietzsche but this sounded like a really good and balanced introduction to his character and works which will probably enable me to be able to more easily read his works
Excellent video essay 👍
Didn't know he had reverance for Indian thought. Schopenhauer's understanding of India would transfer to Nietzche, it is just beautiful to know and think about!
funny how this comment section in particular either hails him or still discards his thoughts. well you gave it a good shot to give some perspective to whom he seemed to be.
I and a friend of mine were discussing this very philosopher! i just had remarked how bold his statement was about god being dead when i saw you uploaded this video! well thanks to this i was able to show him my most favorite youtuber ! And thanks to all this, now you have a new subscriber! Thank you for your hard work! personally i like some of Nietzsche's theories but yeah some of them are theories i dont agree with.
Nieztsche is a paneuropeanist and has a european pagan morality.
Just reading the beginning of Thus spoke Zarathustra, he is the anti-leftist / anti-christian philosopher and the most important philosopher of the modern world.
this paganism never created any empire
and only empires last culturally wiping out all smaller even more organic systems
his idea was leaving lawly ordered mir into warzone to come back as a hero with a legitimacy on heavenly hierarchy
he was meritocratic
so antiaristocratic in sense of only inheriting anything through blood and not through also spirit of this bloodline
Everyone? I studied philosophy for several years (in university as well as on my own) and I ended my journey with him. Nobody has ever understood human (which includes philosopher's) psychology and the nature of reality like him. Or at least no one had the balls to say it like he did.
Hey brother i know my question is gonna be off topic but can u make a video or short about why son wukong hated buddha or god, like i know its really different than philosophy but still what was his reasons for that hating i justs wants to know his psychology, i m going to read journey to the west sonner or later so i might get my answer still pls think about it 🤞 , and if anyone in comments know pls let me know so his efforts of making a whole video will be spared or i dont know english is not my native, sorry for bad eng 🤞😅
I love the ominous doorway behind you
Absolutely appreciate the subtitles on all your videos!
I don't believe religious belief is cowardice, and I don't believe lack of belief is cowardice; but if I had no other choice then I'd argue that defying the supposed omnipotent creator of the universe who could torture your soul for eternity is not something a coward would do
Wow! Stunning and brave!
@@hugejackedman7423 Wow! Enlightening and thoughtful critique!
@@ClockwerkMan Wow! Enlightening and thoughtful response!
For Nietzsche, that would depend on the source of the denial.
@@psyok I yield to the surpassing intellect you levy upon us in between your many rounds of sex-having. Please save some maidens for the rest of us oh supreme euphoric genius.
My friend Will Tupauer recommended this vid and I approve.
Unsolicited advice could you ever make a video about Georges Bataille and his solar economy and base materialism?
Enjoyed this. Thank you
I rarely give rockstar status to someone who isn't even a musician, but this mate has earned it.
(of course, Nietzsche gets rockstar status as well)
You are very generous with religious beliefs for an atheistic intellectual, which makes me much more able to listen to you as an entrenched agnostic. Interesting stuff, thank you!
Nietzsche was a wonder. I don't hate him, I love him.
Love your videos, thank you❤
You always have a great take on things, thanks!
Because he was a NEETszche in later life.
Lol 😂
27:47 29:17 I hope most reasonable people understand that some people can and do have more favorable overall gene expressions. That is not to say that those with more unfavorable gene expressions are sub-humans or less deserving of respect. I think it is fair to say that acquiring external power or becoming a “great man” demands more internal power from one with more disadvantageous gene expressions than one with more advantageous gene expressions.
I say this as someone born with two clubbed feet and a spinal deformation and has an autoimmune disease that severely limits my mobility and energy levels. It quite simply requires less of my wife to make a cup of coffee, for example, than it does of myself. Yet, still, I make my own coffee (even if I need two hands to hold a mug some days), I make her coffee, I do most of the pet care, I do half the housework, I work a full-time job, and I am the primary income for the household.
It's not really an objection in principle but maybe a word of caution there: What traits we treat as desirable will be changing constantly as societies evolve, so I think it is almost arrogant to assume that we know what a "powerful" person looks like. Ancient greeks would hardly have found a use for people like Stephen Hawkings, but today he has been one of the most influential physicists. If we exercise indiscriminate care and compassion, sometimes people surprise us
Your clubbed feet are not genetic. That's a sign of malnutrition on the womb. Check out "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Dr. Price.
I hope it helps.
I think humanity is well past the concept of gene favorability, as the individual's need for physical prowess is diminishing rapidly and is being continuously replaced by technology. This is also why I scoff at the concept of male superiority (I'm a male). I believe it’s high time we elevate intellectual pursuit to its rightful place on a higher pedestal and stop obsessing over barbaric and twisted ideals like the golden ratio and the notion of 'blessed genes.
you can fix yourself with diet and addressing limiting genes understanding what problem they cause and supplementing it
like mthfr gene curse of 44%+ western/asian folks
because evolution doesn't care about details and stops at good enough to not die
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This one got me to chip in on Patreon. That is such an excellent analysis.
8:34 that is what I would hope he meant, idk if that's just bc that's what I think lol. But I absolutely love your videos brother, these videos are awesome.
You make very good videos. Good job
Hilarious timing, I just finished reading “Nietzsche on love” and genuinely loved every second of it.
Other than your jp study I love your work man. JK, that was a great study in self restraint. I do love your work.
The way you deliver 8:56 is peak comedy. I never thought I'd laugh so much from one of your videos.
I liked the mention to what his sister did to his work. His elitism seems closer to Ancient Greece than the Third Reich.
And to be real, most of us only hate the humongous mustache...All the fangirling over Napoleon is a tiny bit annoying too but we can live with that.
hello, i am very loyal viewer since ~july
at 7:39 nietzsche has been subtitled as nature.
probably auto dictate's fault but anyway love/loving the content/analysis as always.
i love winding down to philosophical concepts being beautifully explained to me
I believe to understand Nietzsche better, not only his texts should be read, but also those which Nietzsche read. Another person for your list of people who Nietzsche admired is Montaigne, and Montaigne honestly does not give the ensemble of the strong, powerful Übermensch. He was shy, humble, made himself small in half of his texts. But he was also honest, probably more honest than any other person in his time, and Nietzsche loved that. Montaigne also gave rebirth to the antique scepticism, which seems to me the predecessor of Nietzsches perspectivism. Nietzsches story for Christianity is, that Saint Augustine banned Scepticism as it is found in Pyrrhon of Elis, Sextus Empiricus, etc., to establish an absolute truth, which is then found in God. This is another big thing that Nietzsche really criticizes in Christianity: The believe that there is one, absolute 'truth' as opposed to the philosophy in pyrrhonic scepticism and his own perspectivism and this is also why he writes from these multiple view points when talking about 'God is dead': In one aphorism in 'Joyful Wisdom', God is dead is a good thing and will lead to more freedom, in the next one, it is a bad thing because it may lead to Nihilism. None and both of them are (absolute) true.
Regarding the posthum push to Fascism of Nietzsche, I was always stunned by this quote: “I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”
Wow! Thanx 4 this great contribution!
Good video. From the final quote you find the egalitarian in Nietzsche.
Great video on Nietzche i enjoyed, excellent analysis thank you!!
Well explained. Thank you.
The way I've always read Nietzsche is a focus on free will and absolute accountability for ones actions. Men like Napoleon and Caesar never made excuses for what they did; they had a goal, they struggled through hardships seeking to achieve it, and they owned the consequences of their actions, both success and failure. He was first and foremost an Individualist and despised conformity for it's own sake. Far better that two men disagree honestly than pretend to be in agreement for personal ease or to meet social expectations.
Nietzsche was wrong -> If you gaze for long into an abyss it doesn't start gazing into you, it start calling you.
Same thing
@@alisonmercer5946 no, it isn't.
What do you mean with that? And what do you think Nietzsche means with his original quote?
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Nietzsche was obviously struggling to deal with his own weaknesses and trying to live vicariously through his ideal of power both personal and social. Lot of cope IMHO, and, for my tastes, not very nice or positive cope.
Nietzsche did not want man to impose self-limitations on himself. And one Great limitation was to say this world is NOT the real world and that you should live a certain way to reach the real world of heaven in which you enter by doing x,y and z in this world.
The metaphor of the camel in the desert. Is the most wonderful understanding of human development toward liberation
Nietzsche, Ancient Greece, & the Renaissance are about all I need ❤
The tribal instinct would incline towards slavishness, so pride would be a virtue.
What strong / weak means in this context? You might say that if you are strong, you don't need to control others; or you can say strong is whoever Will control others.
"Stuck in bed... Deep crisis... I despise life." -Nietzche, his diary
Brother, this is the best video on Nietzsche I've ever watched.
IM EARLY YAY! (fr you're one of my favourite youtubers)
Thanks for the video perfectly timed with my current research and I was wandering about thar
Its like beyond good and evil ,the moment you listen to five minites you have go back and re listen ....its so much too take it thats its over whelming....i got 1/ 3 of the way through beyond good and evil and a paragraph regarding epilepsy just hit me so hard ,i just said ," how did he know ," i put the book and have not picked it up since ,iv got epilepsy and he knew things about epilepsy that are only been addressed properly in the last 10 year by neurology.
It’s only this generation that doesn’t like him. It was not like that with my generation.
to what extent does Big Freddy believe in free will? is he suggesting that our will is something largely beyond our control, and that we have to get our minds in tune with it? or is it a force we can harness and use to affect change in the world? or something else? i'm not clear on the relationship between will, mind, and action in Nietzsche.
5:12 “noble” … did he ever question this hierarchal ideal’s validity, origins or the “better than” theory?
I would say that control is the most shared desire among people, not power. Control of what can not be controlled, like death.
How come?
I mean...we don't hate him. We just agree with Russell's opinion of him and his work
Statistically, the more true things you say, the more shit things you'll say
That is the most inspiring sentence I have read in a very long time, thank you!
I love your videos ! :D
I love your videos
I love Nietzsche. I don't agree with everything he said, but he wouldn't want me to anyways; and I can think of no better way to honor him than disagreement. Though despite my disagreements, he is my favorite philosopher.
I like Nietzsche even when I disagree with him.
11:42 He said the thing!! Viktor nation how’re we feeling?
Jayce, jaybe, jaybe not 🥹
I didn't. Also sprach Zarathustra was and is by far my most favorite book. Also read his biography. He is a person who makes you think. You have to consider his life and upbringing, therefore his character. Every character produces it's own vibration.
Nietzche ended up falling into the same fallacy that many a moral man did in the past. Like the Indian gurus that he admired, he says "take me not as a master, I am but a humble man who seeks nirvana for himself". Yet he also says "don't love me as a man but I hope you love my ideas so that we can all rise up as übermensch and meet each other at a mountain top". So, just like a guru, he claims not to be a teacher while also depending on others to learn from his teachings. The moment you teach anyone anything, you become a teacher and them students. You can beat around the bush all you want, play on semantics but the effect remains firmly attached to the cause. So, is his avoidance of being loved and cherished not an escape from living? Does he not contradict himself by telling all to get power and then refuse it for himself? The man didn't have power on his own sister and how his works were tempered with after his death for crying out loud! And therein lies the need to criticize Nietzsche, because often people advocate for whatever they have the least. Nietzsche wasn't a powerful, influential man in life and woe to those who get recognition only after their death. I can't think of anything more futile.
Thank you sooo much, this topic bothers me or inhabits my thought a lot lately. What kind of elitism did he advocate for?
Nietsche is the epitome of being wrong with confidence