Why Everyone Hates Nietzsche

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  • @unsolicitedadvice9198
    @unsolicitedadvice9198  19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +14

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    • @jeremiahkisimba5938
      @jeremiahkisimba5938 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Amazing analysis as always 💯

    • @gravitheist5431
      @gravitheist5431 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      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.

  • @easy8figure
    @easy8figure 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +270

    "Being half a step ahead of any era is genius but being a step ahead of any era is madness"

    • @Luxcanum
      @Luxcanum 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +9

      I can't find an attribution for that quote, so I gave you attribution on my website. It's brilliant.

    • @NarrowPancakes
      @NarrowPancakes 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@Luxcanum Is that a pun

    • @Luxcanum
      @Luxcanum 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@NarrowPancakes Literal this time, though I adore puns.

    • @xcabczyxabczzz
      @xcabczyxabczzz 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      This guy have found the cure for madness😂😂

    • @NarrowPancakes
      @NarrowPancakes 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@easy8figure am pretty mad myself

  • @GrigoriCross
    @GrigoriCross 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +112

    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!

    • @alineharam
      @alineharam 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      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.

    • @crankyeldergod709
      @crankyeldergod709 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      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.

    • @brokenrobot9
      @brokenrobot9 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

      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!"

    • @OSRSBERG
      @OSRSBERG 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Lmao Berkeley! What a waste of money.

    • @jasonblizzard9635
      @jasonblizzard9635 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      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.

  • @plentigaff
    @plentigaff 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +103

    its only natural for nietzsche to be so widely hated: his philosophy is an attack on the entire western philosophical tradition!

    • @isiahs9312
      @isiahs9312 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      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.

    • @magncentLLC
      @magncentLLC 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      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

    • @isiahs9312
      @isiahs9312 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      It was?

    • @plentigaff
      @plentigaff 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@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

    • @biskit8050
      @biskit8050 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@magncentLLC Deleuze and Foucault love him

  • @whoaitstiger
    @whoaitstiger 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +23

    I think it's important to remember that Nietzsche had many friends and was described as an amiably and friendly guy.

    • @jasonblizzard9635
      @jasonblizzard9635 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

      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
      @jacobwiren8142 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@jasonblizzard9635 And now those thinkers are largely forgotten, while Nietzsche remains known...

  • @BrghtScorpio
    @BrghtScorpio 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +25

    I've been listening to essentialsalts' podcasts about Nietzsche and his ideas. Really a true gem, your timing is insane.

    • @crankyeldergod709
      @crankyeldergod709 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      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.

  • @Chris-pp3hu
    @Chris-pp3hu 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +36

    If you want to exercise your philosophical thinking an analysis of Nietzsche is a must.

    • @Vishfeast
      @Vishfeast 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      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
      @cxxmax 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Nietzche is a trap. His philosophy traps you in darkness.

    • @Vishfeast
      @Vishfeast 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@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 :)

  • @hootiehoo3000
    @hootiehoo3000 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +63

    NO VIEWS, WE MADE IT

    • @unsolicitedadvice9198
      @unsolicitedadvice9198  19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +29

      Haha! You are the first one here!

    • @hootiehoo3000
      @hootiehoo3000 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +12

      @@unsolicitedadvice9198 I love your videos, thanks for making them!!!

    • @BilalAhmad-ff3xq
      @BilalAhmad-ff3xq 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      He'll never "fall off" with your support!

  • @withinfinite5104
    @withinfinite5104 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +35

    "Now I bid you lose me
    And find yourselves;
    And only when ye have all denied me
    Will I come back to you."
    Beautiful

    • @cxxmax
      @cxxmax 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

      These words are just biblical words re arranged....

    • @mj33
      @mj33 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      ​@@cxxmaxJust came to say that. You beat me to it.

    • @michaelnazar9358
      @michaelnazar9358 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      .

    • @Robert4865
      @Robert4865 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@cxxmaxThat's the point

    • @brokenrobot9
      @brokenrobot9 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@cxxmax Yes, rearranged to have essentially the opposite meaning

  • @DominikBialy_
    @DominikBialy_ 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    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.

    • @I-am-Hrut
      @I-am-Hrut 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

  • @cr-xs5zg
    @cr-xs5zg 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

    love how u always go so deep about topics in ur videos

  • @PariahPsypomp6775
    @PariahPsypomp6775 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +30

    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.

    • @angusmcculloch6653
      @angusmcculloch6653 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      "Balanced and tempered"? By what? Sounds like you're still exercising a slave morality.

    • @A-gor
      @A-gor 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      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.

    • @philip7039
      @philip7039 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

      Goofy

    • @connorbrady5689
      @connorbrady5689 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +7

      Nietzsche rolls over in his grave at the keyboard cringelords he spawned

    • @hugejackedman7423
      @hugejackedman7423 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      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.

  • @penelopehill9710
    @penelopehill9710 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

    WOW! Excellent analysis of Neitzsche.
    A wonder for me to understand Neitzsche now, decades after graduating with BA Philosophy.
    Thank you.

  • @psyok
    @psyok 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +21

    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

    • @hugejackedman7423
      @hugejackedman7423 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Wow! Stunning and brave!

    • @ClockwerkMan
      @ClockwerkMan 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@hugejackedman7423 Wow! Enlightening and thoughtful critique!

    • @irregular_banana
      @irregular_banana 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@ClockwerkMan Wow! Enlightening and thoughtful response!

    • @I-am-Hrut
      @I-am-Hrut 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      For Nietzsche, that would depend on the source of the denial.

    • @hugejackedman7423
      @hugejackedman7423 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@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.

  • @ThaiIsland
    @ThaiIsland 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    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! 🤙

  • @AwesomelyNumb
    @AwesomelyNumb 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    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.

  • @serraguden3538
    @serraguden3538 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    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!

  • @CuriousCrow-mp4cx
    @CuriousCrow-mp4cx 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    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.

  • @monke6669
    @monke6669 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +20

    I am not a man, I am dynamite 🧨
    - Friedrich Nietzsche

    • @cxxmax
      @cxxmax 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Sounds like an Instagram caption

    • @monke6669
      @monke6669 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      @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.

    • @justagamer1160
      @justagamer1160 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      So Nitze was a AC/DC fan

  • @nosson77
    @nosson77 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +11

    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.

    • @prostoname5338
      @prostoname5338 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Dude, u have no idea what are you talking about, but that’s fine, continue reading, you might learn one day

    • @anguineus_vir
      @anguineus_vir 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

      @@prostoname5338why don't you directly say the things you're not agreeing about instead of criticising without arguments?

    • @prostoname5338
      @prostoname5338 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@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
      @Detective_depther 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

      ​@@prostoname5338 Sounds like you're not able to explain your point, or even pin point the exact reason you disagreed with the original comment

    • @prostoname5338
      @prostoname5338 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@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.

  • @derekharley7343
    @derekharley7343 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    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

  • @marclipska1991
    @marclipska1991 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +10

    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.

    • @ClockwerkMan
      @ClockwerkMan 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      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.

    • @TheDionysianFields
      @TheDionysianFields 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      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.

    • @alena-qu9vj
      @alena-qu9vj 50 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      @@ClockwerkMan By my definition of "weakness" Nietszsche was an example of its embodyment and his "philosophy" is just a negative projection.

  • @ShubhhThakur
    @ShubhhThakur 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Halfway through Beyond Good And Evil. And here's another drop on Nietzsche. Amazing!

  • @Robert_McGarry_Poems
    @Robert_McGarry_Poems 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    You do a good job of describing the different perspectives that his work can be looked at through.

  • @coreyrachar9694
    @coreyrachar9694 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    My friend Will Tupauer recommended this vid and I approve.

  • @flammabletoast5820
    @flammabletoast5820 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    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

  • @danielbarrero2815
    @danielbarrero2815 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Excellent video, as always!

  • @Dust394
    @Dust394 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +9

    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.

    • @gustavertboellecomposer
      @gustavertboellecomposer 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

      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

    • @jacobwiren8142
      @jacobwiren8142 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      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.

  • @ritome2405
    @ritome2405 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    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.

  • @WeltgeistYT
    @WeltgeistYT 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Great video!

  • @rasnainjection
    @rasnainjection 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    Unsolicited advice could you ever make a video about Georges Bataille and his solar economy and base materialism?

  • @willieluncheonette5843
    @willieluncheonette5843 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    "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."

  • @ehsantehrani4038
    @ehsantehrani4038 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +14

    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.

  • @lizellevanwyk5927
    @lizellevanwyk5927 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    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).

  • @michaelbonthron2423
    @michaelbonthron2423 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Absolutely appreciate the subtitles on all your videos!

  • @wojciechbacalski2531
    @wojciechbacalski2531 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    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

    • @Martwypłód2k12
      @Martwypłód2k12 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      "czego szukasz?"
      "Niczego..."
      ~ typowa rozmowa w bibliotece

  • @kariannecrysler640
    @kariannecrysler640 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    5:12 “noble” … did he ever question this hierarchal ideal’s validity, origins or the “better than” theory?

    • @kariannecrysler640
      @kariannecrysler640 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I would say that control is the most shared desire among people, not power. Control of what can not be controlled, like death.

  • @PeroRoch-dw4sv
    @PeroRoch-dw4sv 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    The way you deliver 8:56 is peak comedy. I never thought I'd laugh so much from one of your videos.

  • @KITT.007
    @KITT.007 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Hilarious timing, I just finished reading “Nietzsche on love” and genuinely loved every second of it.

  • @jovanastanisic8629
    @jovanastanisic8629 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    Nietzsche was wrong -> If you gaze for long into an abyss it doesn't start gazing into you, it start calling you.

    • @alisonmercer5946
      @alisonmercer5946 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Same thing

    • @jovanastanisic8629
      @jovanastanisic8629 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@alisonmercer5946 no, it isn't.

    • @jonas6120
      @jonas6120 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      What do you mean with that? And what do you think Nietzsche means with his original quote?

  • @2Hesiod
    @2Hesiod 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    The tribal instinct would incline towards slavishness, so pride would be a virtue.

  • @hazard5255
    @hazard5255 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    IM EARLY YAY! (fr you're one of my favourite youtubers)

  • @Luxcanum
    @Luxcanum 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Nietzsche was a wonder. I don't hate him, I love him.

  • @cerdic6586
    @cerdic6586 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +10

    Because he was a NEETszche in later life.

  • @quirky_dudette
    @quirky_dudette 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    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

  • @ndthaler
    @ndthaler 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    This one got me to chip in on Patreon. That is such an excellent analysis.

  • @rosemarietolentino3218
    @rosemarietolentino3218 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    It’s only this generation that doesn’t like him. It was not like that with my generation.

  • @Americanbadashh
    @Americanbadashh 38 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @SterrenmassageNl
    @SterrenmassageNl 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Wow! Thanx 4 this great contribution!

  • @iwantanxbox8765
    @iwantanxbox8765 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    You make very good videos. Good job

  • @amptechron
    @amptechron 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    You always have a great take on things, thanks!

  • @anothenymously7054
    @anothenymously7054 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    My main issue with Neitzsche is not his observations. They are very good. My issue is with his life philosophy. I consider him a failure in that regard because any person who has a functional life philosophy aught to have their life together. He in a sense nucked his stable career to be that unemployed friend at 2 pm on tuesday. Even that made him mentally ill while he lived in his head of philosophy until he had a psychological break.
    This is the same issue i have with carl marx. He had a lot to say about what a economic communal system aught to be while completely unemployed and couch surfing on financial life support from his family. Not a model for having a stable economic communal life because he never experienced it

    • @scarf550
      @scarf550 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      You must understand that he had a chronic illness that causes such extreme pain as to turn someone insane. Syphilis is a crazy sickness. He was suffering without modern healthcare and without any actual support, i hardly think you could blame him for not holding his job when he was physically unfit to do so.

    • @alena-qu9vj
      @alena-qu9vj ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@scarf550 If he were not that mysogynic freak with totaly unhealthy relationship towards women, he needn't catch syphilis in the first place. According to N.'s own philosophy nobody "must" understand, excuse and pitty any weakness and illness, so let N. try their own medicine.

  • @TheDionysianFields
    @TheDionysianFields 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    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)

  • @laurat.4791
    @laurat.4791 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    hes just one of the most exciting and original philosophers, his use of aphorisms is refreshing. I didnt agree with all of his ideas, but I enjoyed all of his ideas.
    I find most ppl associate him with his geneaology + dead of god. But I loved his stance on history

  • @shadeaquaticbreeder2914
    @shadeaquaticbreeder2914 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @Luxcanum
    @Luxcanum 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Brother, this is the best video on Nietzsche I've ever watched.

  • @mfgrobin9657
    @mfgrobin9657 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @lolachlih3136
    @lolachlih3136 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Great video on Nietzche i enjoyed, excellent analysis thank you!!

  • @ggunnelspct
    @ggunnelspct 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    I like Nietzsche even when I disagree with him.

  • @casard5235
    @casard5235 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Well explained. Thank you.

  • @6FootVampire
    @6FootVampire 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    He wasnt vegan, thats the reason right?
    Bobby this waterfall crazy!

  • @MamadouKane-w6f
    @MamadouKane-w6f 40 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    An EXCELLENT book that examines Nietzsche holistically and puts his philosophy into political context is Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Rebel by Domenico Losurdo

  • @trasher534
    @trasher534 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    32:14 and i find the way you read that passage adorable, for some reason

  • @neocount6397
    @neocount6397 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Only the weak hate him.

  • @Zpicismrad
    @Zpicismrad 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    I hate him because every 18-24 year old who've read Thus spoke Zarathustra think they're the smartest person in the world.

    • @handsomelyditto4215
      @handsomelyditto4215 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

      seems like a silly reason, might as well hate all philosophy then because young philosophy majors can be annoying.

    • @SleepyOakTreeSleepy-w2p
      @SleepyOakTreeSleepy-w2p 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      True true lol 😂 Nietzsche is the Philosophy God of emo teen cringelords. The funniest thing is that basing on Joe’s interpretation of Nietzsche, I don’t think Nietzsche would like them very much. He’d probably chastise them for being ‘weak’ by adopting his values rather than crafting their own.

    • @alena-qu9vj
      @alena-qu9vj 48 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      True, and also every misogynist of any age just loves him.

  • @Listener-r2j
    @Listener-r2j 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @Sonofsun.
    @Sonofsun. 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    32:35 yeah it's clear that he is talking about the spirit of his ideals

  • @avfn8981
    @avfn8981 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @Rem-n7m
    @Rem-n7m 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    But how did he end?
    It's like Martial arts... The ones that survive (better or worst) are the ones that worked.

  • @angelonintendo
    @angelonintendo 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for the video perfectly timed with my current research and I was wandering about thar

  • @casard5235
    @casard5235 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    People don't like, and fight against, truths.

  • @Bonnie-SìneK-w2r
    @Bonnie-SìneK-w2r 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I love your videos ! :D

  • @Chris-pp3hu
    @Chris-pp3hu 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks great breakdown of Nietzsche 👍

  • @Derksmash
    @Derksmash 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    While Nietzsche had his flaws, as all persons do, I never took his philosophy to be as negative as it is often portrayed. He often spoke with disdain, but in a way I always took as being direct rather than insulting. More akin to a personal trainer pushing you to be better, you can't always be nice to the ones you love if you want them to succeed. Tough love if you will. But as you point out his more extreme views on power and elitism tint it as more disdain than I think was intended

    • @alena-qu9vj
      @alena-qu9vj 56 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      His "tough love" towards women is really remarkable. Dont fool yourself, he was just a megalomaniac freak hating everything because of his own weakness.

  • @Ana_MF
    @Ana_MF 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @jasondouglas214
    @jasondouglas214 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Each of the paths are equal, because the cosmos has nothing governing what matters. All subjectivity and the opinion rules right or wrong. He was either horrified or appalled by his own epiphany.

  • @cookeyd5984
    @cookeyd5984 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    My favourite boi Freddy, can't wait for his next book! 🔥

  • @annihlud6569
    @annihlud6569 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    This came just in time, I’m about to start reading Nietzsche‘s books(Birth of Tragedy, Gay Science, and Homo Eco) to compare and contrast with the Unique and It’s Property from Stirner, all so that I can get a better understanding of Anti-Oedipus.
    I’ll watch this video sometime after I started reading Nietzsche.

  • @villevanttinen908
    @villevanttinen908 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Humans will to power, our desire to dominate, killed God, and this is what N meant by that. Also N. , like Heidegger., questions given consciences certainty itself (if I wrote this right?). This is where " postmodern" attack against " reason" stems from.

    • @kevinbeck8836
      @kevinbeck8836 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Wrong.

  • @jeremiahkisimba5938
    @jeremiahkisimba5938 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    I love your videos

  • @psimuv
    @psimuv 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Nietzsche is a Genius.

  • @descendingintodreams1768
    @descendingintodreams1768 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    11:42 He said the thing!! Viktor nation how’re we feeling?

    • @spicyshallots8943
      @spicyshallots8943 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Jayce, jaybe, jaybe not 🥹

  • @青雲浮遊
    @青雲浮遊 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    before watching here is my attempted answer: Nie. makes everyone realizes they are ridiculously pointless. people hates the feeling of self-doubt and self-demeaning as they know that they are shamefully incapable of ever making a point in life. In order to not betray themselve, unable to find an existential solution beyond Nie. 's skepticism, people choose to ridicule and hate Nie. by lying to themselves and twisting reality so that they can feel good about themselve again. However, once heared, words of the repressed in the unconscious starts to react. They can hate Nie. but they are not who they are anymore.

  • @fischer9001
    @fischer9001 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Nietzsche once said that Schopenhauer was the educator.
    I put Nietzsche as educator. Hes the only philosopher that you need to read. everyone else is just a footnote

    • @ClockwerkMan
      @ClockwerkMan 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I disagree, and I think he would too. The only philosopher that you need to read is you.

  • @rosemarietolentino3218
    @rosemarietolentino3218 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Read him for yourself. Don’t take anyone else’s word for it.

  • @Sonofsun.
    @Sonofsun. 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    22:25 oh i completely get that

  • @rosemarietolentino3218
    @rosemarietolentino3218 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Social media is modern day Plato’s Cave.

  • @prohumanityperspective
    @prohumanityperspective 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Our current society is so full of hate and narcissism , that they cannot understand him. Our whole system is full of resentment...

    • @alena-qu9vj
      @alena-qu9vj 54 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      Hehe. If there ever was a paragon narcissist, it was Nietzsche.

  • @infinitiger
    @infinitiger 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Fluffy Bunny Nietzsche Plushie available in the merch store when? 🤩

  • @clintmichigan9112
    @clintmichigan9112 25 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Im with Nietzsche.....Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

  • @Antleredangelbun
    @Antleredangelbun 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    21:00 Plato and Iridocyclitis

  • @JohnBorstlap
    @JohnBorstlap 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    One does not need to be religious (in the sense of adhering to an existing religious belief system) to understand that there are 'objective' moral values, one can explore and discover in the course of one's life - 'objective' in the sense of: being valid in most imaginable circumstances and being felt by different people in different cultures. Also one does not need to be an 'atheist' to not believe in existing religious systems. Nietzsche was confused, being the son of a pastor and frustrated because of many things, and however brilliant he may have been, his work seems to be a patchwork rather than a philosophy. And it makes teenagers even more obstinate than they already are.
    And cannot be concluded that Nietzsche, as seen in his writings, was a rather nasty character? With some primitive traits? Hence his admiration for Napoleon, in whatever context.

  • @elijahl-s5184
    @elijahl-s5184 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    To what extent do you think Nietzsche would consider 'power' and 'mastery' to denote the same?

  • @PhilosophyPlayground91
    @PhilosophyPlayground91 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    14:02 I disagree, purpose isn’t needed to enjoy life.

  • @scottweaverphotovideo
    @scottweaverphotovideo 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I have been wondering if the host of these videos had vocal and diction training or it came about naturally. In either case the result is impressive.

  • @pjaworek6793
    @pjaworek6793 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you sooo much, this topic bothers me or inhabits my thought a lot lately. What kind of elitism did he advocate for?

  • @abyssal_beans
    @abyssal_beans 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    He asked a lot of questions that nobody else had the balls to, and was willing to accept that he didn’t have all the answers… but man did he not do himself many favours with how he writes stuff. Nietzsche quotes sound really cool and profound, sure, but especially in a social media landscape like the one we have today, it’s so, so easy to take something he said completely out of context to support whatever ideology you’re trying to peddle.
    Also, I’m not a philosopher, so I want to ask the opinions of some people more qualified than me… can his criticisms of religious dogma kinda apply to his belief in the “upper men” of the future?

  • @mezmerism107
    @mezmerism107 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I hate Nietzsche because he's true (sometimes). It's like when I read his writing is like looking through a mirror. Damn. At least he's not Schopenhauer.

  • @rudhramalachannel8308
    @rudhramalachannel8308 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    "Nietzche is dying and they are killing him."

  • @realnagato
    @realnagato 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    The best way to understand Nietzsche is to read Max Stirner

    • @fazliddinerkaboyev6568
      @fazliddinerkaboyev6568 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Nietzsche might have not liked his egoistic philosophy as he didn't like anarchists much.

    • @realnagato
      @realnagato 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @fazliddinerkaboyev6568 What Nietzsche is doing is exactly an noble egoistic approach. Actually, it's exactly Stirner's idea of self-ownership

    • @fazliddinerkaboyev6568
      @fazliddinerkaboyev6568 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@realnagato In Wikipedia it's written that Nietzsche must have been aware of Stirner's philosophy. But nowhere he reacted to Stirner.

    • @realnagato
      @realnagato 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@fazliddinerkaboyev6568 I read both. I can assure you that Nietzsche and Stirner are saying mostly the exact same thing. The only difference is that Nietzsche wanted to create himself through Ubermensch. Stirner didn't believe in perfect goals, so he affirmed himself as the unique from the start.

    • @fazliddinerkaboyev6568
      @fazliddinerkaboyev6568 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@realnagato Hmm. Just Nietzsche is more poetic.