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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
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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! 🤙
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!
@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.
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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
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
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 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.
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
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.
@@scarf550 If he were not that misogynic 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.
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.
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
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.
An EXCELLENT book that examines Nietzsche holistically and puts his philosophy into political context is Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Rebel by Domenico Losurdo
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.
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.
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.
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
His "tough love" towards women is really remarkable. Dont fool yourself, he was just a megalomaniac freak hating everything because of his own weakness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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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.
"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'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.
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 :)
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Haha! You are the first one here!
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He'll never "fall off" with your support!
I think it's important to remember that Nietzsche had many friends and was described as an amiably 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.
"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
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?
love how u always go so deep about topics in ur videos
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.
WOW! Excellent analysis of Neitzsche.
A wonder for me to understand Neitzsche now, decades after graduating with BA Philosophy.
Thank you.
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.
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.
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! 🤙
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!
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
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.
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.
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
"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."
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.
Halfway through Beyond Good And Evil. And here's another drop on Nietzsche. Amazing!
You do a good job of describing the different perspectives that his work can be looked at through.
Great video!
My friend Will Tupauer recommended this vid and I approve.
Excellent video, as always!
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.
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
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.
Unsolicited advice could you ever make a video about Georges Bataille and his solar economy and base materialism?
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).
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.
Absolutely appreciate the subtitles on all your videos!
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
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.
The way you deliver 8:56 is peak comedy. I never thought I'd laugh so much from one of your videos.
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?
Hilarious timing, I just finished reading “Nietzsche on love” and genuinely loved every second of it.
The tribal instinct would incline towards slavishness, so pride would be a virtue.
IM EARLY YAY! (fr you're one of my favourite youtubers)
Nietzsche was a wonder. I don't hate him, I love him.
Because he was a NEETszche in later life.
Lol 😂
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
This one got me to chip in on Patreon. That is such an excellent analysis.
It’s only this generation that doesn’t like him. It was not like that with my generation.
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.
Wow! Thanx 4 this great contribution!
You make very good videos. Good job
You always have a great take on things, thanks!
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
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.
@@scarf550 If he were not that misogynic 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.
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)
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.
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
Brother, this is the best video on Nietzsche I've ever watched.
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.
Great video on Nietzche i enjoyed, excellent analysis thank you!!
I like Nietzsche even when I disagree with him.
I love the ominous doorway behind you
Well explained. Thank you.
He wasnt vegan, thats the reason right?
Bobby this waterfall crazy!
An EXCELLENT book that examines Nietzsche holistically and puts his philosophy into political context is Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Rebel by Domenico Losurdo
32:14 and i find the way you read that passage adorable, for some reason
Only the weak hate him.
I hate him because every 18-24 year old who've read Thus spoke Zarathustra think they're the smartest person in the world.
seems like a silly reason, might as well hate all philosophy then because young philosophy majors can be annoying.
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.
True, and also every misogynist of any age just loves him.
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.
32:35 yeah it's clear that he is talking about the spirit of his ideals
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.
But how did he end?
It's like Martial arts... The ones that survive (better or worst) are the ones that worked.
Thanks for the video perfectly timed with my current research and I was wandering about thar
People don't like, and fight against, truths.
I love your videos ! :D
Thanks great breakdown of Nietzsche 👍
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
His "tough love" towards women is really remarkable. Dont fool yourself, he was just a megalomaniac freak hating everything because of his own weakness.
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.
My favourite boi Freddy, can't wait for his next book! 🔥
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.
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.
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.
Wrong.
I love your videos
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 is a Genius.
11:42 He said the thing!! Viktor nation how’re we feeling?
Jayce, jaybe, jaybe not 🥹
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.
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
I disagree, and I think he would too. The only philosopher that you need to read is you.
22:25 oh i completely get that
Read him for yourself. Don’t take anyone else’s word for it.
Social media is modern day Plato’s Cave.
Our current society is so full of hate and narcissism , that they cannot understand him. Our whole system is full of resentment...
Hehe. If there ever was a paragon narcissist, it was Nietzsche.
Fluffy Bunny Nietzsche Plushie available in the merch store when? 🤩
Im with Nietzsche.....Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
21:00 Plato and Iridocyclitis
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.
To what extent do you think Nietzsche would consider 'power' and 'mastery' to denote the same?
14:02 I disagree, purpose isn’t needed to enjoy life.
Thank you sooo much, this topic bothers me or inhabits my thought a lot lately. What kind of elitism did he advocate for?
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.
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?
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.