What a great lecture......nuanced, subtle and instructive and perhaps even funny......how to actually understand what Nietzscheee was talking about.....too good.....Thanks
Nietzsche is the only philosopher I've ever read that you can scroll through with a pencil marking out quotations to find that not only are there quotations within the quotations but the quotations, when you start making them come to overlap eachother.
It’s year 2022 and I have watched JP Sartre and this series till here and I could not be more thankful to you and the pandemic that made these videos possible, thank you!
Well, that's understandable. After all, when there's not much room for laughter and celebration... then the whole project can easily seem tedious and burdensome. And personally, I'd say that it's only grown worse over the last 10 or 15 years. Sigh.
I see your you're familiar with the linguistics of academic snobbery and self-seriousness without being taken by it. Then again, since you're very first video on Sartre, I knew that your response to absurdity was most likely a humorous one.
Well, my response to life in general is mostly through humor. As a consequence, I'm a bit of an anomaly in the academic world, which so often likes to indulge in lots of weeping, gnashing of teeth, etc...
I like the Germans, things they say stand out, (even in english)..herman hesse, in steppenwolf, said laughter was the music, of the oher side, (in a discourse, about the difference between brhams, and mozart)..i recall that, from 30 years ago.. that had gravitas, for me..(no-one , made me read it, it was just a suggestion).
Vector forces swinging around the axes where opposites storm with tension... that must the dancing floor of our dare and pretty colorful life we have been given. So, dance it. Till the end. Dance it, like it is your last one. ❤ Damn it - make the heavy light! Or... make it vice versa! All will work out for you. All will come to you one day - as laughter. And dance. As joy. A joyful moment called Life - with the eyes of a child... ❤
(A novice here) A question I would have for Nietzsche - given that will to power in his sense is the fundamental driving force, the "ontological principle" driving humanity, how does this relate to the concept of nominalism? I understand that Nietzsche primarily focused on the will to power i.e the establishment of values within the terrain of subjectivity, but what would his take be on the nature of things? Does one know because it was willed in some fashion, or can one will because one knows? Is there a rational order to the world the exists outside of your mental capacities that possesses a natural order, or is this just another mask, or something else? My brain feels like it's in a knot just trying to think of these things.
So, what happened to his pets?...were they re-united, in the afterlife?...futurama, was one of the goat, tv shows..(bender is the dog, in adventure time..good cartoon too..). Cartoons, can do, the impossible?..
A dry vapid lecture. The micrological and macrological components of will to power pushed the sensorium over the edge. No need to spell ludic for watchers who have internalized the German 'der Wille zur Macht'. All the same I am going to listen to the fifth lecture. Make it a cocktail of 'gravitas, levitas, and simplicitas', professor.
Well, it might help to bear in mind that these lectures are designed for a young, undergraduate audience that has had very little prior exposure to philosophy... and that probably hasn't studied much German & Latin.
Thanks, professor, for the salutary comeuppance. I slouch over the keyboard, corrected. I still feel that the 'will to power' cannot be dumbed down to 'motive power'. I promise to re-listen to the lecture to figure out how it differs from Freud's id and the seismic upsurge of Foucault.
Awesome. What time to be alive. Quality lectures just for free. thanks.
If wishes were horses, we could rewind?.😅
What a great lecture......nuanced, subtle and instructive and perhaps even funny......how to actually understand what Nietzscheee was talking about.....too good.....Thanks
Professor is beyond words
Nietzsche is the only philosopher I've ever read that you can scroll through with a pencil marking out quotations to find that not only are there quotations within the quotations but the quotations, when you start making them come to overlap eachother.
This is such a terrific series, I really enjoy hearing you speak. Hope there's more to come!
I have read 2 books of Nietzsche BG&E and Zarathustra and started reading Genealogy of morals
listening to your lectures helps me make sense of it
as someone from engineering who loves philosophy but could not pursue it, i love this
Thanks, Eric. You're a gifted teacher
It’s year 2022 and I have watched JP Sartre and this series till here and I could not be more thankful to you and the pandemic that made these videos possible, thank you!
Loved, absolutely loved this lecture. Laughed quite a bit 💙
Thank you Professor, these lectures are gold! Hope youre doing well.
- A new Australian student
I did enjoy you being ludic in this video! Thank you
Genius. Ludic. You're the best
Wow. This was brilliant.
I love these classes sm!! I’d love to have mr Dodson as my teacher
18:40 is what I hated most about the academy, and one of the major reasons why I left. Really awesome series btw!
Well, that's understandable. After all, when there's not much room for laughter and celebration... then the whole project can easily seem tedious and burdensome. And personally, I'd say that it's only grown worse over the last 10 or 15 years. Sigh.
I want to watch the fifth lecture so badly but its time for me to sleep as i have to get up early, i cant make my mind!!
I see your you're familiar with the linguistics of academic snobbery and self-seriousness without being taken by it. Then again, since you're very first video on Sartre, I knew that your response to absurdity was most likely a humorous one.
Well, my response to life in general is mostly through humor. As a consequence, I'm a bit of an anomaly in the academic world, which so often likes to indulge in lots of weeping, gnashing of teeth, etc...
this dude is hilarious
Could you please make videos on Foucault as well. These are really helpful.
I keep thinking of Alfred Adler every time you mention 'will to power".
Well, that's understandable.
I like the Germans, things they say stand out, (even in english)..herman hesse, in steppenwolf, said laughter was the music, of the oher side, (in a discourse, about the difference between brhams, and mozart)..i recall that, from 30 years ago.. that had gravitas, for me..(no-one , made me read it, it was just a suggestion).
Vector forces swinging around the axes where opposites storm with tension... that must the dancing floor of our dare and pretty colorful life we have been given. So, dance it. Till the end. Dance it, like it is your last one. ❤ Damn it - make the heavy light! Or... make it vice versa! All will work out for you. All will come to you one day - as laughter. And dance. As joy. A joyful moment called Life - with the eyes of a child... ❤
Love ya man. Genius!
(A novice here) A question I would have for Nietzsche - given that will to power in his sense is the fundamental driving force, the "ontological principle" driving humanity, how does this relate to the concept of nominalism? I understand that Nietzsche primarily focused on the will to power i.e the establishment of values within the terrain of subjectivity, but what would his take be on the nature of things? Does one know because it was willed in some fashion, or can one will because one knows? Is there a rational order to the world the exists outside of your mental capacities that possesses a natural order, or is this just another mask, or something else? My brain feels like it's in a knot just trying to think of these things.
I wonder what’s your reaction every time the camera turned off.🤣
Youre lecture is truly laughable! I loved it!!
So, what happened to his pets?...were they re-united, in the afterlife?...futurama, was one of the goat, tv shows..(bender is the dog, in adventure time..good cartoon too..).
Cartoons, can do, the impossible?..
The lesson started very good but turned laughable near the end.
Ha ha... that's a good one!
🤣🤣🤣
A dry vapid lecture. The micrological and macrological components of will to power pushed the sensorium over the edge. No need to spell ludic for watchers who have internalized the German 'der Wille zur Macht'. All the same I am going to listen to the fifth lecture. Make it a cocktail of 'gravitas, levitas, and simplicitas', professor.
Well, it might help to bear in mind that these lectures are designed for a young, undergraduate audience that has had very little prior exposure to philosophy... and that probably hasn't studied much German & Latin.
Thanks, professor, for the salutary comeuppance. I slouch over the keyboard, corrected. I still feel that the 'will to power' cannot be dumbed down to 'motive power'. I promise to re-listen to the lecture to figure out how it differs from Freud's id and the seismic upsurge of Foucault.