Nietzsche In Twelve Minutes
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- Опубліковано 12 лют 2014
- I do not own any of these images. This 12-minute video is intended as an introduction to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It is not intended as a comprehensive or definitive account of his thought. This video is for educational purposes only.
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
The Modern Hermeticist well Society needs a mythology in order to rectify the contradictions we must entertain to function as a group competing against other groups.
+Josh Steffen (stookified) amen on that!
The Modern Hermeticist I love you Brother. 🖤
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It’s called “Mob Mentality “ which is Worship of the herd .
I remember climbing to the top of Table Mountain in South Africa while my friend took an elevator/stairs about 30 years ago.
I distinctly remember feeling tired but elated when I go to the top whereas by contrast, my friend was listless and even a little bored.
That taught me that struggle has it's own rewards.
Good on you Dukky. You sound like a man after my own heart.
''its'' own rewards even
and another similar story...there was a young boy who was watching a caterpillar struggling to break free of it's cocoon and become a butterfly. Sensing the struggle and worried it would not make it he quickly decided to try to help the struggling insect. He tore apart the remains of the cocoon and freed the insect from it's seeming tomb. But then something surprising, the butterfly did not fly away for you see it was the struggle which gave it the strength to fly and not having gone through that struggle it's wings did not develop the strength it needed. So the lesson from that story is that it's the struggle that makes us stronger and is actually just what we need to grow into a butterfly - metaphorically speaking that is! :P
another fucknut who doesn't know the difference between _it's_ + _its_
or there's the possibility that you subconsciously had to justify the effort put in. Studies have shown that we're more likely to give explain reasons for our choices, through left-right brain image testing.
"Philosophers build mansions, but live in hovels next to the mansions" ... Kierkegaard
The love of my life
Wow, rare that I hear Nietzsche put so cogently. Well done Eric, thoroughly enjoyed this vid
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You're fucking gay and so is everybody who liked your comment.
Cogent Nietzsche: Arrrrgggghhh!
You make it sound like you've been studying Nietzsche and will continue to study Nietzsche for years and years,
and years to come!
come on bro...
@@philipzanoni Dont you like my satire of Nietzsche?
Nietzsche was inspired by Beethoven who, in spite of his difficulties including going deaf, still said he would live his life over again 1000 tomes.
TheProgressiveParent tomes 😂
Thought it was Wagner he was inspired by?
It was Monroe... perhaps he was inspired by both but he wrote extensively on Wagner!
You mean Wagner
@Bruno56 Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean) took her last name as "Monroe". It was chosen in reference to James Monroe - the 5th POTUS
Well done, Eric. A brief, eloquent and cogent articulation of Nietzsche’s core philosophy, for all.
Nietzsche does not have a "core" philosophy - Nietzsche has no philosophy at all - any one who thinks Nietzsche has a philosophy has not read much Nietzsche
I’m new to Nietzche, so I had to rewind this video a few times, but my goodness- what an incredibly succinct overview of his work!
I am a college student taking a course on Nietzsche's philosophy and I must say this video was so helpful in helping me understand his material better! Thank you so much for creating videos like this!!
Excellent, I was expecting the usual UA-cam-level garbage, but this is a surprisingly powerful yet accurate brief summary.
gessie: if you know that, the video was wasted on you. If you did not know Nietzsche before, then you have no critical basis to say whether it was good or not good. :-)
We can have some basis even if we do not know Nietzsche. Otherwise we couldn't distinguish a good piece of art from a bad one if we couldn't make good art ourselves. But we can so distinguish, even if we aren't good artists ourselves.
@@andrewszemeredy4458 I wrote that this is a good summary, a judgement which inherently requires that I'm acquainted with Nietzsche's work. Your assumption is a non-sequitur - it doesn't follow.
Perhaps you associate watching a summary on UA-cam with a lazy first introduction, which is probably true for many viewers, but not necessarily.
Yes, I agree, a good review is its own merit. Many original art can be introduced into one's life by a good review. But reviews are not facts, and there is the offside chance that the reviewer is mistaken (convincingly) or perhaps (very unlikely) is lying through his teeth. I find that likely actually in reviews of movies.
@@gessie Thanks for telling me that. But then why did you read the review? If you decided before reading it to give your opinion on it after reading it, then yes, I understand you. But if you read it only because you are interested in Nietzsche, and you wanted to gain more insights, but gained none, while agreeing with the content, then I maintain that it was wasted on you, as your initial objective may have been to learn something new, but which you did not. Please notice the conditionals in the proposition. (If... then, if... then).
Good vid and easy to understand. I remember when your channel had 1,300 subs, you blew up fast!
Eric, I really appreciate your videos. I've watched a few now and I find them balanced, fair, accurate to the text....and your use of illustrations effectively elucidates the concept at hand. Well done! I'll be recommending your work to my undergrad students.
These videos are great dude
This presentation is amazingly succinct and informative. I'd like to see a list of reputable sources used when creating it, so that I might properly cite the many things i learned here!
"He who fights too long against dragons, often times, becomes a dragon himself"
(YAWN) ...time to get up and eat all the dwarves...
This was the best video about Nitzsche's philosophy. While documentaries, movies, and short films try to show how Nietzsche lived, they fail on to explain how Nietzsche could possibly think. This video is so great, and so illustrative, especially because of the awesome editing plus explanation, it's really a shame it has only 300k views (at the moment), yet I bet it helped a lot of people on thinking again about life, feeling good, society and morality.
If it's worth it, I always will share this videos with others. Well done.
This is great, I’ve always been curious and this video is simple, elegant, and informative. Thx
ive been reading Nietzsche for 12 years and still today find out new things. So you make your conclusion about what could you possible learn in 12 mins.
Thank you, this is extremely helpful!
This is the easiest to understand and the most interesting video about Nietzsche that I have ever seen! Thank you for making these!
That was EPIC Eric. Thank you so much for your videos. I'm going off to bed and off the grid for a while. Thanks so much I will stay tuned to your channel.
+Denis Damenice You're welcome. Sleep well!
Thanks for the interesting and educational 12 minutes!
Nietzche would have had an absolute field day with the internet
I enjoyed this - And it makes a lot of sense - Thank you for producing and sharing
Well done..!!! This video is probably the most well formed, understandable and non-convoluted of its kind I've seen..
Thank you..!!! -- the world requires a constant reminder of what FN actually espoused-- there being so much seeming confusion re: his thoughts and philosophy..
Once I learned how to spell his name, I realized why he thought life was ludicrous and funny!
Excellent summary of Nietzsche's thought. Good work. I've just a few thoughts of mine, though...
1. Considering that Nietzsche went bonkers at 44 and died shortly after rather than living happily to a ripe, old age, one would like to know if his philosophy really worked for him as a genuinely fulfilling way of life. If not, then it (his philosophy) would seem like a very hard sell to me.
2. How practical would it be for us all to choose to 'overcome' the values we were brought up with? Would civilized society still be possible anymore if we did so? And don't tell me that very few of us would do so anyway. One of Kant's rules for testing the soundness of a moral rule would be whether it can be universalized i.e. how it would work out if everyone lived by it.
3. If I choose to adopt Nietzsche's ideas as a guide to life, am I not becoming a slave to his ideas, in contradiction to his condemnation of slave morality?
4. If I were living in miserable circumstances and yet could still love my fate, why couldn't I also love the rules I was brought up with rather than seek to 'overcome' them?
5. One's suspicion is that Nietzsche's 'Will to Power' could have been inspired by Darwin. Also he was raised in a household of women, making one wonder if he might not have felt overly smothered by this ubiquitous femininity and sought to 'overcome' it, hence the stress he places on this 'Will to Power'.
1 Good point but an isolated occurance, not a real test of his ideas, + Nietzche didn't value happiness at all, he valued his work
2 Nietzche acknowledges that his ideas are not for everyone, in fact that it may be harmful to many, it is your choise whether to pursue them. Kant's idea included nobody lying ever even if to save your loved one's life, don't you think that morality is really more subjective since people are different ;)
3 No, because Nietzche explisitly states to shung away from his ideas, his famous phrase "This is my morality, where's yours?" (or something like that) really shows everything. Nitzsches philosophy is a guide to look beyond standart norms of morality and to build your own. As was said in the video, act upon your own desire.
4 You certainly can, look at point 3 again.
5 Possibly, evolution certainly seems to have played a role in nietzches ideas. Again possibly, every philosopher's ideas are a reflection of himself.
You have a lot of thoughts for a 10 minute video.
1- I think it worked great for Nietzsche. He did what he could and what he wanted, and also got to be inmortalized in philosophy on the way. You can read Ecce Homo, one of his last and more autobiographical writings.
2- I think society IS ruled by people who overcame their values and created their own morality. Kant on morality? meh
3- Yes, you would be becoming a slave to his ideas, probably because you don't understand them.
4- You can do whatever you want. Like the saying: ignorance is bliss. I think Nietzsche also has a few sayings about it. If you are happy, be happy i guess? But you can also choose to overcome your supposed mysery that you so love.
5- I think Nietzche rejected Darwin ideas and favoured some of others (I don't remember who). He also has written a lot about his relationship with his family. Maybe it is related? But I don't see the freudian point.
What a strange set of questions, have you read anything, or this all came from the video?
Excellent summary Mr Dodson, thank you - you have to know your subject really thoroughly to be able to do this so faithfully and so convincingly.
I really appreciate your videos, understanding Nietzsche's ideas is not an easy job, thank you for making an introduction to Nietzsche's philosophy
Me: reading Nietzsche for hours and hours, year after year📖🤔 trying to decipher his mind and put it all together🔬🧐
UA-cam: *yOu caN LeaRn nIeTzscHe in TeN minUteS*
Yeah, but it's still good to introduce people. Do you realize how many young ppl don't even know who Nietzsche is?
You mean to say I've just wasted two whole minutes??!!!!
What should I read from him? I haven't gone past the general UA-cam level philosophy topics on Nietzsche and I would like to learn more.
@@deacon8318 Start anywhere. There's no wrong way to go at Nietzsche.
@@deacon8318 no go with beyond good and evil..... within one month u will know no moral facts
And u will be suspicious of truth
Fantastic ! Best Nietzsche vid on youtube. Thanks Eric :)
I really liked this and got a lot out of it. I've been reading Julian Young's biography of Nietzsche and struggling with a lot of the philosophy being discussed. This video was quite helpful. Eric Dodson, I like your style!
Thank you for giving me a rundown on his ideas! It's been hard trying to find a video that wasn't using his thoughts to tell people how to live lol, I was just looking for an unopinionated summary
Don't forget that every philosopher is describing themselves.
yeah,in Beyond good and evil
Roseanne Reddy one thing is for sure, they are detailing their own personal experiences and processing them with the knowledge that they have acquired through academics this far and leave their findings to be used as stepping stones for future philosophers... but who takes the time to stop and make sure that these findings and interpretations of his are factual and true before moving forward and basing your own theories off information of his? I would ASSUME there are few.
it could be said that every criticism or value that people hold and discuss openly with others is something that they probably personally value themselves. so yeah, basically what you said.
some people/. SOME PEOPLE.... just wish they had something origional to say.
False. Every MODERN philosopher is describing himself. The medieval and ancient philosophers actually did real philosophy.
I was just enlightened. These 12 mins beat the 50 classes of philosophy I took while going to school.
Eric, this was really well done. Thank you!
Eric.......I love u!
just saw this, and became quite excited as your info/presentation was sooooo cool! I will watch ALL your videos and
I hope I meet someone as interesting as u!
After reading much of Nietzsche and even taking a class on him, I can say this is a great little summary that doesn't shy away from difficult subjects. The School of Life has a few good ones too. N should get a lot better recognition nowadays, than the crap that makes him into an antisemitic nihilist. But those who actually read his works know how absurd that happens to be.
His regard for Christians as nihilists smacks of bitterness. It's what makes him most pathetic really, as a philosopher. No genius was he. Just a bitter man with an eroding mind.
Nick Parkison I agree my friend! Have you seen Crashcourse Philosophy's existentialism video?
You have no idea what you're talking about & it's so obvious. To say Nietzsche was pathetic is to not know a damn thing about his writings.
He just might not have understood Nietzsche clearly -- or, yeah, haven't red him, lol!
You're pathetic too. Any idiot can look at his own imbecility and proclaim himself to be a genius.
10:22 I never understood the Saying quoting the French Revolution 'God is Dead' until it was described here as being in context of 'Social Importance' . Makes Sense .
Hello Eric,
I really like your videos. They are highly stimulating, and seem to me excellent summaries. My sole critique of this video would be your five uses of "consequently". A few as a results or thuses would go far!
love,
Mr Rusty
Great overview of -THE- Mustache, thank you Eric, liked and subscribed.
"Master morality and slave morality."
This was literally an introduction for me and I thank you for the yogurt coated pill.
Bravo. You sir did a wonderful job. Helped clarify some ideas I was confused about.
Very well put, nice gist without oversimplifying. Gotta check out more of your work.
"God wills it!"
"so what"
Nietzsche in five words
"GOD'S ARE IMAGINARY!"
t4705mb6 in THREE words.
@@t4705mb6 because there is only 1 god
He just needed to move to somewhere sunnier and stop being so bloody miserable.
Literally the most dull philosopher ever to have lived. Just quibbling over semantics and doing sod all.
@@philiposborne982 I wouldn't say "dull". "Dark" would be more applicable.
I ask this all the time
But in an implied way
Even though i Actually believe in a powerful semi biblical God...
Free will
Which also sometimes is a "so what" idea too.
Funny that he calls it Christian-ish morality. When it's actually Roman slave morality, that hasn't changed since before Rome existed.
I think he was obviously very brilliant. He also found. Some truths or CREATED some too.
I think he truly failed in understanding the truths that are paradoxes though.
If I could have his view on life, or be able to grow his moustache, I would choose the moustache. We don't need ubermen. Or hermanutical suspicion. We need cool facial hair.
I am thoroughly impressed. Usually people are not accurate in their assessment of Nietzsche, let alone completely accurate in 12 minutes.
I have often scoffed after listening to a talk like yours that i want that 12 minutes of my life back. But I am going give you another 12 because that is the way you tell the story in 12 min and my meta narrative was impacted. Thank you it was an honour to learn from this presentation when I hold a Mac in apologetics good stuff.
Along with all the others, this is a great video. Thanks for making them.
One point on this video - you mention around 2 minutes that Nietzsche thought his 'revaluation of all values' can "lead the entire human race beyond all that has defined it thus far". From my understanding this skews Nietzsche's ideas. His 'higher man' is an exception; overcoming is but for the select few. The human race as a whole will always be the herd, it is only the exceptional individual who rises above, and becomes a sort of "superman".
"Mankind surely does not represent an evolution toward a better or stronger or higher level, as progress is now understood. This "progress" is merely a modern idea, which is to say, a false idea. The European of today, in his essential worth, falls far below the European of the Renaissance; the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening. True enough, it succeeds in isolated and individual cases in various parts of the earth and under the most widely different cultures, and in these cases a higher type certainly manifests itself; something which, compared to mankind in the mass, appears as a sort of superman." (Nietzsche)
"These alone are my readers, my rightful readers, my predestined readers:
what do the rest matter? -- The rest are merely mankind. -- One must be superior to
mankind in force, in loftiness of soul..." (Nietzsche).
"Their fundamental faith simply has to be that society must not exist for society’s sake but only as the foundation and scaffolding on which a choice type of being is able to raise itself to its higher task and to a higher state of being-comparable to those sun-seeking vines of Java-they are called Sipo Matador-that so long and so often enclasp an oak tree with their tendrils until eventually, high above it but supported by it, they can unfold their crowns in the open light and display their happiness." (Nietzsche)
There are numerous other passages conveying the same theme. Anyways, just thought I'd point that out for the sake of clarity. Thanks again for making these videos, they are very thought provoking. I hope you keep it up!
towardsthesun Thank you
Read chapter 3 of The Antichrist. Nietzsche discusses what type of man should be bred to replace mankind. He then says that this type of man occurs today only as a sort of "happy accident", but never deliberately willed. To me this implies that Nietzsche hoped that the higher man, which is an exception today, will be bred to replace the herd.
I guess that would be supermen like Stalin, Lenin and Hitler, who were not constrained by the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Thanks for your comment and for sharing quotes of Nietzsche. I acknowledge being part of the "herd," - being an "intellectual pygmy."
Earlier, I watched a video featuring Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (?), history professor at the University of Wisconsin who wrote "American Nietzsche." She says her work is not a biography of the man, but of his ideas and how we have accepted them in the U.S.
I was introduced to Nietzsche as a high school freshman, but I didn't understand how his ideas had influenced world thinking - and I didn't know how his ideas could be interpreted so many ways. Until now, the most I'd heard of Nietzschian thought came from viewing episodes of "Andromeda. "
JG Alegria idiocracy :)
"Lo great star, what would be thine happiness if you did not have thy comments section for whom thou spoketh?"
thanks for putting central stream of thoughts of nietzsche concisely.have been reading nietzsche sparsely now n then.this helps as overview anchor esp for a experimental & multifaceted phil......
Excellent work Eric!!!
5:05 I don't quite agree with this phrase "The deepest expression of a master morality lies not in opressing others". The powerful will opress. The power is not given, one always usurp. I notice always the tendence to sugar coat Nietzsche and make it presentable to our ears but that doesn't show what I think is what he ment in his philosophy.
Good point.
I'm gonna be super pissed if I have to live another life exactly like this one.
It's time to overcome that my intellectually mellow fellow
It will be the same, but you will be the opposite sex and a different color.
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Our world will be much different if religious people actually believed in this story. You didnt want to be miserable if you thought that after death you will be reliving it for ever. Great concept for life motivation.
Most things in life are cyclical. There is no reason to believe that life it's self is any different.
great simple intro into the subject
obviouslly there's a lot more to read and focus on but for 12 minutes.... great video
Once again Mr Dobson I must thank you for your entertaining , concise and informative treatment of this thinker. It is interesting for me to consider his thought insofar as I understand it once again within the Aristotelian / Thomistic paradigm which to me provides metaphysical criteria wherebye source, purpose and teleology are intelligible concretely. With Nietzsche, if I get him at all, it would be Aristotle's potential that he seems to need for a better hoped-for actuality. And his sense of the divine or absolute, seems a deistic one, not uncommon at that time as opposed to the immediate ground of being and in its perfections of being, love. A disconnectedness once again. But .. I ramble and did mostly wish to thank you for these excellent encapsulations and journeys into thoughts about what really is. Terrific.
I like Manly P Halls lecture on overcoming more it is far more in depth and lays out exactly what and why to encapsulate the reasons your choices should be carefully and meticulously followed through with in order to understand the introspective gaze you take when wondering whys it all for. I like Nietzsche but he has tons of flaws in his work. That being said no one is perfect and true philosophy os never finished just like wisdom which should be learned, practiced, and passed on to everyone. Still Nietzsche had accomplished more than me so I'm not judging the great man, just an opinion that's probably wrong anyway.
I loved “Performance” .
Phenomenal video. Really well done.
Well done. Thank you for this
Hello, Eric. Congrats on 1 MILLION views.... I love and miss you, my dear friend.
Hi Rob! Ha ha... and to think that YOU were the one to introduce me to UA-cam all those years ago, when you showed me some Concrete Blonde videos in my office one day. Yes, through YOU I had my first contact with the wonderful world of UA-cam. So... many thanks for that. Anyhow, I hope you're well, wherever in the world you are... perhaps Botswana? (Just a guess). I'm still chillin' in the crib in Carrollton... getting older and fatter. Some things never change, I guess. Anyhow... thanks for dropping me a line. Eric
Wow. Thanks for doing this video. I can't count the number of times I've heard people misinterpret Nietzsche's famous quote, "God is dead."
Ryan K. But the concepts persist eternal...
Also, incredible video, thank you so much!!
Thank you for this summary. Learned many things.
Going down a river heading toward the sea and i used to love that river but now I'm salty.
If it's a river of love, you will never be thirsty !
Man is always (will to power) thinking he is smarter than God; seemingly unaware of the disposition of serving the created (including other men) as opposed to the one who created all. All these man-made philosophies are created out of a desire of these men to be their own god, with their own following and a freedom to do whatever they want without violating the conscious.
Do you mean "violating the conscience"? Agree with you mostly, but I do have sympathy for Nietzche. I try to put myself in his place and imagine myself with a 260 I.Q. (what many scholars think was his level of intelligence!) and realize that I could very easily think myself an ubermensch or my own god. The odds of NOT going mad or thinking/analyzing oneself into madness with that dynamic, original and organic of a mind would be pretty slim IMO. It would almost require God to choose him and save him (from himself), rather than vice versa. I think in a way, God DID choose him and gifted him, as he did Leonardo, Beethoven, and maybe a handful of other humans throughout history. To me that gift would be as much of a burden or curse as a blessing. But he rejected his Creator and went to Hell = separation from God. IDK, I don't think the poor guy ever had a chance!
The bible is a man made philosophy, a re written one at that.
Thx appreciate the refresher!
Awesome job putting that together!
‘Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools...’
IKR?
You might be pretty foolish. Meat head
@@jimmyfallon2484
You sound triggered
@@goyonman9655 his place is in the gym. Leave philosophy to those with well put togethor brains...n bow down..
@@jimmyfallon2484
You don't know him well enough to know 'his place'
Insane by 44!? Never knew that.
Thanks, very informative and very well explained.
Very nice job at summarizing his views. Anyone watching would be able to understand and finish the video without questions
FN is my favorite western philosopher. My two favorite easter philosophers are Chogyam Trungpa and Jiddu Krishamurti.
Simply put, I think he meant good and evil are purely subjective, based upon ones own subjective reasoning, which is merely a product of social conditioning and the enforcement of the collective morality.
Deep stuff, much apreciated !!
Incredible video, great work
Falling in love with all aspects of living? having to live more lives over and over again until that goal is finally achieved? NO THANKS!
How can you become a Higher Man with a will to power? You can only become a Higher Man by having no will to power. When you yearn for power with you will, you are already a slave to your will. A higher man is the one who lets it go -- not holding on to anything.
That would be the Schopenhauer position: asceticism, reject all earthly desire. Nietzsche despised this. He thought people should embrace life. "Power" is a charged word under today's prevailing ethical language, and it may even be a simple mis-translation here. When Nietzsche says Will to Power, imagine instead he is saying: the force of life itself, or the Will to evolve-- which all of us share, which motivates the actions of all living beings. What Nietzsche argued for above all else was simply: respect for Will.
The truly higher man would never seek to dominate others against their Will-- rather to always seek out stronger competitors & friends. To *enjoy* losing to someone stronger-- seeing it as a lesson on how to improve. And to wish improvement for all around him, so as to build better competitors & friends over time. From this perspective, it's clear to see: any "strength" built atop the weakness of others would be simply: weakness. False power that weakens first any who wield it, not only its victims.
This weakness inflicted against others is what most people mean when they say "power" today. But this misconception-- this denial of good power along with the bad-- is perhaps what makes weak power so common. This is why Nietzsche rejected asceticism: it denies the better part of our nature along with the worst, and creates a space within which the worst can grow.
@@alegriart If upon winning a contest, you see others around you fail-- then you are playing the wrong game. Try a new game: where you compete to see how great a victory you can win for others around you. One is defeated only in one's mind-- look on every defeat instead as a lesson, on how to play better, the next time around. And use every victory as an opportunity to teach. Our stay here on this world is short, but there is time enough for many games. Always look forward to the next one.
This is not what Nietzsche said or believed.
Nietszche "will to power" has nothing to do with will nor power in a political or social or buddhist point of view. The will to power is more related to the developement of your body and mind in the same way evolution imprints life. It's not something you can control. That is how he can say "Become who you are" without any contradiction. At least that's my understanding.
Pierre Van Eeckhout what is a will that cannot be controlled?
Thanks for this, I was considering reading some Nietzsche but wasn't really sure what he was all about and if I would be interested in his work. Now I'm pretty sure I will be :)
Thank you for making a daunting topic digestible without dumming it down. You have an extraordinary ability to summarize and link the important themes into a holistic narrative. I should have learned more about Nietzsche much sooner in life, but Germanic peoples have produced so many great thinkers that it's hard to keep up. Goethe, Rudolf Steiner, Max Weber, Herman Hesse, Marx, Hannah Arendt... the list just goes on and on.
@Rishi Eastwood Thank you. And I would add the Tao to the list of superior philosophies.
Fascinating. Great vid. Ty. Maybe Nietzsche was crazy...uber-crazy...hahahahahahaha.
"Action is the last refuge
of those who cannot dream."
~ Oscar Wilde
“I am too drunk to taste this chicken.”
- Colonel Sanders
so said the sloven.
@ginganz13 well he still has his plan intact ,can't say about his face though .
@ginganz13 lol. Seriously.
@@hlehman1987 I was about to fall asleep when I read this and it made me laugh my ass off!
Georgeous video mate 👍
The most concentrated philosopher-speak I've ever heard!
Nietzsche had a good understanding of time-space with his eternal recurrence idea.
Time being absolute, where the past, present, and future are one and the same.
We are constantly being born, experiencing life and dyeing infinitely.
However we can only perceive this in the past, present, and future.
Then again it could all be bullshit.
I'd go for the latter.
And you "phantomzone", have such a firm mental grasp and working knowledge of time and space that you are qualified to judge his understanding "good".
PHANTOMZ0NE bjj
Nietzshe meant this more as a thought experiment than an actual assertion.
From what we know, space/time is flat, not circular.
The concept of giving up this life for the next is flawed, but sacrifice makes sense. If I give up something I want now, I may be able to get something for it in the future. Everything worth doing requires, in the least, a sacrifice of time. That is not unique to Christianity, but Christianity focuses heavily upon sacrifice.
God sacrificed for us.
Thanks, I needed this..
Thanks for the thought provoking info.
Who's translation of Nietzsche has more clarity? Walter Kaufman or R. J. Hollingdale
Kaufman.
And know we have something to cling to, imagination.
Reading Bataille's take on him, thanks for the summary
Very helpful. Thank you so much, man.
I learned more in the comments section than in the first six minutes of the video
Thats what you think huh
Michael Hand me too!!! Lol
Then I guess you already know that some finds this video this erotically pleasing
I think, like many continental philosophers, Nietzsche studied himself and his own inclinations and universalised them to the world. he found that his will to power was the dominant force in his psyche. To me the genealogy of morals is an interesting historical myth, through the lens of which we see one man's attempt to understand why his contemporaries so slavishly accepted the norms of their society without question or critical thought. It must have been hard for Nietzsche. In the introductory passages he acknowledges three, at most four, people who truly influenced and revolutionised his thinking. How lonely for a man so a head of his time to struggle to find mental stimulation and peers in a world that shone a flame so dull in comparison to an intellect that burned so bright.
For someone hailed as a nihilist, right-winger, or anti-humanist for me his writing is exceedingly humanitarian, exemplified - for me - by the first passages of the untimely meditation on the comparative advantages and disadvantages of history for life. He is a beautiful writer, and I love his secular myth - the Zarathustra.
Yeah... to me there's always something comically contradictory about trying to pigeon-hole a thinker as dynamic and protean as Nietzsche is. This seems obviously true (to me) of terms like, "nihilist," "anti-humanist," etc. In my mind, the famous Turin horse tableau would provide a counterweight to all of that. Anyhow, why would a nihilist ever write a book in the first place? However, even a term like "humanitarian" seems a bit constrictive in Nietzsche's case (since he seems to be equally interested in what might succeed "the human"). Hmm... more later... I have to exercise now.... thanks again for your interest in all of this. E.
here here. in another comment thread under this video there is some jackass doing that basically trying to blame the decline of Western civilization and moral relativism or whatever on Nietzsche LOL. Nope anything the decline of Western Civilization is due to an exacerbation of the Christian ethic which like Marxism romanticizes the so-called oppressed, now called minorities and women and trans Whatever by the social justice Warriors, as the morally Superior victim class. an actual fact white males are disadvantaged in our own civilizations but that is another subject. My point is that his observations about the Christian ethic as being the life denying are pathetically coming to true as humanism carries the ethic of Christianity to its terminal conclusions. We really need to get back to our pre-christian roots to a time when excellence or are was sought
For as long as Nietzsche's books are read and his ideas explored, there will be an army of people trying to reassign the blame for the butchery that ensued when he was done. But doubts will always remain...maybe he DID have something to do with the violent deaths of 80 million people. Ah, but he was a misunderstood soul! Maybe.
TheProgressiveParent thank you for this. I totally agree with your statements. I think it’s even harder in today’s society because of social media. I don’t have Facebook and have found you are shunned when you don’t roll with the Herd. Once again thank you for your input 😊
Now youre doing what you claim nietzsche was.
I’ve got a masters in philosophy and wish I had seen this video when I started to read N. My professor didn’t do nearly as good a job outlining what we were going to be reading. Thanks for producing this outline. i will share it.
Great video! Thank you for it!
"No one quite lies the way the morally indignant do."
Excellent. The quest for transcendent, fully human Human. "...And fashion his own reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself." (Karl Marx, 1844, The Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right) A good quarter-century before Nietzsche's Übermensch.
Atlanta Bill Marx thought there was no such thing as nature.
I just watched a video posted by a person who confessed that he was a sociopath. He got his start in school with the theory of evolution, and he decided he would evolve from his learned set of values into what he really was. As he discarded his morality , taught by his parents , he found increasing freedom. He was free to act on his impulses, he stole , vandalized at school...and all the while felt a greater exhilaration. Finally he decided to take the next logical step in freeing himself...he decided to kill his own father...with a hammer. Nietzsche would have been delighted. In jail, he was challenged by a Christian...and eventually became a Christian ,...Nietzsche would be upset.
nice explanations. Its not all comprehensive, but you got in a good bit of the important stuff in a short time.
Thanks, made it pleasant to take in. I get it a bit better now.