Based video. Me teacher mentioned this to me a few days ago, funny coincidence. Also, hope you can get a mic soon too. That'll tremendously up the quality audiowise. Cheers!
Nietzsche's work trully ignites the spirit of the reader, he takes you through his thought process and shows you his perspective directly; he inoclulates you (at least it was my experience and of other's while reading it)
Thanks for this illuminating lecture! In the quote from Human, All-to Human 475, Nietzsche even goes so far as identifying the Jews as the prime defenders of Western Enlightenment and intellectual independence, thus assuring that modern Europe's historical connection with Greek and Roman antiquity could remain intact against the "dark", mythical Middle Ages and the tendency of Christianity to import presumably irrational ideas from the "Orient." This, to me is extremely important, because it shows not only, as you point out, that Nietzsche was a fierce critic of antisemitism (at least in this passage), but it also seems to link him to German Idealism, which celebrated modern arts, philosophy, and the French Revolution as promising a revival of Greek antiquity. Where Nietzsche in this passage goes intriguingly beyond German Idealist poets like Friedrich Hölderlin, is that Nietzsche links these ideas specifically to the Jews; their persecution, then, threatens not only Jewish lives and culture, but also Western modernity's own inheritance of Greek and Roman antiquity's achievement.
@@RolfGoebel You are so right! I see such strong premonitions of postcolonial studies, especially that of Edward Said’s “Orientalism”, with his genealogical method mixed with the scapegoat view of the “Orient”.
This is pretty ahistorical though. Both Judaism and Christianity are from the Orient relative to Europe and Christianity grew out of Judaism and from a Jewish theological basis. Also the whole notion of the dark ages can be pretty dubious. Places of the early Middle Ages were dark where barbarians destroyed places of classical learning but not all places fell to this. The Roman Empire and Roman civilization didn't die in 476 it fell in 1453. Nietzsche claims there were Jewish free-thinkers who kept a link to Greco-Roman learning but doesn't give any historical names so it isn't very clear who and what he is referring to and even though we can give some names of the Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages (Maimonides?) that Nietzsche omits, one could equally as well give names of Christian and Muslim thinkers of this same time period who also kept classical Greek learning alive. Nietzsche's view reminds me of how people today will give only the Islamic world all the credit for keeping classical Greek learning alive without realizing that the Muslims got that classical learning from Christians like Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Yahya ibn Adi, etc. translating classical learning from Greek and Syriac to Arabic.
Thank you for a good video! I also find Nietzsche to be the kind of philosopher who doesn't insult you by over-explaining every single detail of his arguments and instead leaves it up to you to understand it. He kind of give me the feeling that he's a friend who is trying to inspire you. A tip I'd want to give you, me being a zoomer with a poor attention span, is to use more pictures and visuals to help keep the viewer engaged through the video; and also to work on maybe speeding up the pace of the monologue. Don't get me wrong, I think you're making very interesting videos, especially considering you're more focused on continental philosophy, which is very underappreciated in the Anglosphere.
@@jess4728 The chapter entitled “On Little Old and Young Women” from pt1 of Thus Spoke Zarathustra seems to me irremediably misogynistic. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think I’m being charitable considering my love for Nietzsche.
Based video. Me teacher mentioned this to me a few days ago, funny coincidence.
Also, hope you can get a mic soon too. That'll tremendously up the quality audiowise. Cheers!
@@Cesar_Orostegui I do have a mic, I just couldn’t get it close enough in this particular video. Some of my others are much better, audio a-wise😬
Thanks!
9 seconds in and I know it'll be a banger!
yup, the video is incredible! What a phenomenal job once more!
Thank you so much😁
Nietzsche's work trully ignites the spirit of the reader, he takes you through his thought process and shows you his perspective directly; he inoclulates you (at least it was my experience and of other's while reading it)
@@francis5518 Very well said! That’s an astute summation of the readerly experience.
@@gavinyoung-philosophy Appreciate your kind words!! 😁
Thanks for this illuminating lecture! In the quote from Human, All-to Human 475, Nietzsche even goes so far as identifying the Jews as the prime defenders of Western Enlightenment and intellectual independence, thus assuring that modern Europe's historical connection with Greek and Roman antiquity could remain intact against the "dark", mythical Middle Ages and the tendency of Christianity to import presumably irrational ideas from the "Orient." This, to me is extremely important, because it shows not only, as you point out, that Nietzsche was a fierce critic of antisemitism (at least in this passage), but it also seems to link him to German Idealism, which celebrated modern arts, philosophy, and the French Revolution as promising a revival of Greek antiquity. Where Nietzsche in this passage goes intriguingly beyond German Idealist poets like Friedrich Hölderlin, is that Nietzsche links these ideas specifically to the Jews; their persecution, then, threatens not only Jewish lives and culture, but also Western modernity's own inheritance of Greek and Roman antiquity's achievement.
@@RolfGoebel You are so right! I see such strong premonitions of postcolonial studies, especially that of Edward Said’s “Orientalism”, with his genealogical method mixed with the scapegoat view of the “Orient”.
This is pretty ahistorical though. Both Judaism and Christianity are from the Orient relative to Europe and Christianity grew out of Judaism and from a Jewish theological basis. Also the whole notion of the dark ages can be pretty dubious. Places of the early Middle Ages were dark where barbarians destroyed places of classical learning but not all places fell to this. The Roman Empire and Roman civilization didn't die in 476 it fell in 1453. Nietzsche claims there were Jewish free-thinkers who kept a link to Greco-Roman learning but doesn't give any historical names so it isn't very clear who and what he is referring to and even though we can give some names of the Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages (Maimonides?) that Nietzsche omits, one could equally as well give names of Christian and Muslim thinkers of this same time period who also kept classical Greek learning alive. Nietzsche's view reminds me of how people today will give only the Islamic world all the credit for keeping classical Greek learning alive without realizing that the Muslims got that classical learning from Christians like Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Yahya ibn Adi, etc. translating classical learning from Greek and Syriac to Arabic.
Thanks for this video
@@no-ic5gw My pleasure!
Thank you for a good video! I also find Nietzsche to be the kind of philosopher who doesn't insult you by over-explaining every single detail of his arguments and instead leaves it up to you to understand it. He kind of give me the feeling that he's a friend who is trying to inspire you.
A tip I'd want to give you, me being a zoomer with a poor attention span, is to use more pictures and visuals to help keep the viewer engaged through the video; and also to work on maybe speeding up the pace of the monologue. Don't get me wrong, I think you're making very interesting videos, especially considering you're more focused on continental philosophy, which is very underappreciated in the Anglosphere.
i also heard people calling him an incel
He was definitely a misogynist so that’s not an entirely silly a label.
He loved a very independent woman that wouldnt marry him. So in some regards, kinda
@@jess4728 The chapter entitled “On Little Old and Young Women” from pt1 of Thus Spoke Zarathustra seems to me irremediably misogynistic. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think I’m being charitable considering my love for Nietzsche.
He got syphilis from a prostitute so he was most definitely not celibate
I would say that was more Schopenhauer.
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The short answer is no, he was not. He was just a dude suffering from major depressive disorder and syphilis
Nietzsche was a satirist
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