Actually, Ayn Rand is ONE of the representations of what Nietzsche was talking about... So was Hitler... And Ted Bundy... The will to power is a very very very broad circle.....
@renumeratedfrog ted bundy is not an example of will to power at all! Will to power constitutes doing whatever pleases you interanally, it is based off of action not reaction, which is what ted bundy's murders were, reactions to finding out his parents were actually his grand parents, that his sister was really his mother and so forth. His actions were all based for external reasons thus not truly being a will to power.
@renumeratedfrog Yeah, not to be a dick, but you haven't the slightest understanding of the will to power. Nietzsche explicitly and repeatedly says that people who have the *need* to exert power over others (like Bundy) do so out of a lack of ability to exert power over themselves. Serial killers are weak individuals, who tyrannize others to quell feelings of inadequacy and vulnerability. Nietzsche's ubermensch dominates other incidentally, as a means toward achieving his own goals.
@fromis111 Keep repeating that little mantra to yourself... The very fact that you're trying to convince me that your little idiotic idea is better than mine, is an example of the will to power...
@renumeratedfrog Yes, it is an example of the will to power. Seeing that Nietzsche views the will to power as pervading everything, I can hardly see how that's an insult. And nothing I've said is controversial. Allow me to simplify it for you: Nietzsche's noble spirits have self-control, self-discipline. Psychopaths are impulsive and undisciplined. But continue slandering Nietzsche by association if it makes you feel better.
i read he actually didn't have syphillis, that it was more likely a brain tumor, which his father had passed away from. anyone have more info on this?
Hitler was a nationalistic german, Neitzsche was a germanophobe.
Hitler was anti-semetic, Neitzsche was a strong supporter of the Jewry.
Hitler believed in dogma and saw religion as a necessary tool for society, Neitzsche thought religion should be discarded for the betterment of society, and that we should be individualistic.
Hitler was a ponce, Neitzche was a bro.
to all Nazis referencing Neitzche: he thought you should all be shot! fuck off!
I really enjoy these productions because the host doesn't seem to be trying to push an educational or political agenda, which a lot of philosophers seem intent on doing nowadays. He simply presents a general outline and facts, very refreshing, and a very charming personality. Keep them coming.
Thank you very much for this documentary :) I saw this about 3 years ago when i was in severe depression and today after lessons learned from Nietzsche i scored 4 A*'s in my A-levels .
You grow a 'stash like that, you're begging to be shunned.
Also syphlis causes insanity, and it had been brewing in him since he was a school-lad, it's unwise to believe and put much stock in the ramblings of the insane.
@BillRoyMcBill it's debatable if he actually had syphilis...if he had syphilis, the disease happens in stages and lies dormant sometimes for decades while since it is a bacteria deteriorates portions of the brain at a time and not the whole simultaneously...finally an idea or theory is not to be measured by the person presenting but by its own merit (e.g. John Nash in Economics).
@BillRoyMcBill basically he might not of had it and if he did the extent of influence of the disease to his writings caused by the disease is debatable and even if it is not debatable the idea(s) are to be discussed and not the quality of the mind of those that hold to that idea.
@macrick I've suffered far worse than any of the problems that you're having at the moment. I would suggest that you listen to what is being taught about hardship through the works of Nietzsche in this documentary. It is to be welcomed because it strengthens you.Rejoice in your sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character. Know that at the end of the struggle you will be a new creature in a way, far braver, wiser and resilient than you were before
@TheGreatZurEnRaah well said, i am going through such a tough time in my life and feel so lost right now, hearing what u said just gives me the motivation to keep pushing on.. thank u
Wonderful video. I wrote a piece and later performed it, called ¨A Sexy Piano¨, inspired by Alain´s piece on Nietzsche. Alain you made me interested in philosophy. Great writing.
@sd62t833 Not that this is really important, but what I'm wondering is...how does Alain actually know that many women were "frightened by his large mustache"?
@plannin4 but that wasn't his intention. he was lonely. so it makes no sense. and his views on suffering undescore a masochistic tendency. like most people, he didn't see the world beyond suffering; the world he himself had created for himself.
@mikeylikesit2675 but he said he was desperately lonely and jealous of his friend's marriage....there's something to be said for being alone, but he clearly never got past loneliness.
@0live0wire0 he wrote to his friend how lonely he was being unmarried...so he gave a fuck...about himself and his own loneliness....but was incapable of locating a barber shop.
@dvkevin In January 1889 Frederich Nietzsche collapsed in Turin, Italy after he embraced a horse who was being whipped/beaten and tried to protect the horse. He then collapsed and was moved in with his mother; and spent the last 10 years of his life completely insane.
@LOLlord117 Ayn Rand acknowledges that there are similarities between her philosophy and that of N. But if you are thorough in your research you will also find that there are similarities between almost any philosopher. So what I have to tell you is this: criticizing a philosopher is a little out of your league. If you favor Nietzsche's IDEAS so much (which by the way a lot of college students are fascinated with) one cannot help but notice your hypocrisy in your attitude toward A.R.
@americanliberal09 For starters, Rand is an egoist. Nietzsche absolutely destroys the idea of egoism as a coherent idea. There is no ego, only will and force. Defense of the ego is a reaction to force and thus life denying.
@americanliberal09 It's not even clear that Nietzsche would view it as "bad". It's more misinformed and naive. If Nietzsche had encountered it in his life, he might have just ignored it.
@americanliberal09 An ego is a strong separation between the person and the world. It's descended from Descartes "Cogito ergo sum" Proponents of egoism view themselves a "Causa Sui", a being which creates itself ex nihlo. Nietzsche's first move is to ridicule the idea that a human being could ever be Causa Sui. His second move is to say that an individualist Cogita Ergo Sum presumes an I where one is not necessary. His third is to say that thoughts arise from surrounds, not individuals.
@Distortion0 of course is true that the individuals didn't create themselves but don't egoist seek their own self interest and obtaining their desires?
@americanliberal09 The critique is going over your head. For Nietzsche, there is no individual, there only the metaphysics of power. "Their own" is an unintelligible phrase.
@americanliberal09 Again, your assuming something when you say "Your own". What is a self? Mystical could mean a lot of things. I get the feeling your opposing "mystical" to "practical", which isn't an apt criticism of Nietzsche at all. The greatest philosophers have usually been mystics of some sort, Plato and Augustine being chief examples.
@Distortion0 Well, perhaps Foucault may outright deny the existence of any individual whatsoever. Nietzsche, on the other hand, was above that. He criticized Descartes for the silly idea that anyone could ever make a clean slate of themselves and that they could be free of the influence of their prehistory, such as their family and cultural heritage.
@Peteromich I think you're taking that statement too lightly. To claim to be an individual in a society is to claim that waves are more important than the sea they travel in. This sort of thinking is present throughout Nietzsche's work. Only if you selectively read can you get this kind of prefaced individualism. Individuals, in Nietzsche, are important as expressions of greater forces.
@Distortion0 Perhaps this is true for the common man of society who is comforted by "drifting aimlessly like a wave on the sea" and who is "like an idiot, his mind is so empty." But for Zarathustra? Zarathustra who says Yes to life, who says Yes to himself, who affirms himself above all else? For Zarathustra who loathes the deep sleep and narcotic which negates life and self?
Then,Nietzsche comes and practically says there is no Rationality in this Universe,that there is this other force called Will. Darwin and Freud unlocked important information of the human existence.But Nietzsche came and just took advantage of the rapidly changing times.I have read Thus Spoke Zarathustra 3 times and not once did he actually convince me that we're all alone in the Universe, and that everything depends on pure Will and Hardship.As a philosopher he lacked the 'philo' part.
@Raluk54 Nietzsche came before Freud and consequently influenced many of his thoughts. Nietzsche observed the conditions of beings and thus concluded that we all have this drive for power. It's visible on the microscopic level to the level of human beings. Nietzsche condemns the idea of nihilism as it took away the reason to live. Though he saw no meaning in life from the outer standpoint of the beings, he did see that the point of the being is to feel powerful. He then recommends the passions.
@mikeyskywalker a capite ad calcem I know about Nietzsche's influence on Freud, I merely placed them in the same time frame: 19th century. My comments were some sort of vendetta, because I still can't agree with the man. I've read his works from Thus Spoke Zarathustra to Ecce Homo and so on, and yes, I got from them everything that you wrote above. But with those ideas I disagree completely. I don't have characters enough to write my antithesis, but I'd like to thank you for your opinion.
And at the time there were also good Renaissance values(taken from Antiquity) and even God related ones(Kierkegaard)that gave man faith and reason to live.A certainty that it all depends on something that's not that far from their reach.And then just like that everything changes.Darwin tells us were actually related to monkeys, so we're not such an unique divine creature after all, Freud discovers we're not purely intellectual,we have instincts(id, ego, super-ego).
Ok..so he had an interesting philosophy. But he changed so many principles of the time and by that I mean the good, stable ones. Things were going well: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel agreed that there is this force above all superior in the known universe-as in Rationality, even if they taught it can be found in different formes: in man or merely floating around, or rising as time passes.
For all the people with negative comments, why wouldn't you comment on the third video so it would maybe seem like you listened to the whole program. You know nothing of Nietzche's brilliance.
messed up????..when he says he wished suffering on people, what he was implying was that he wished happiness on people..because in order to reach happiness, one must know and experience suffering. suffering is the first, imperative step to reaching happiness. it's a very wise realization on his part.
the reason i said what i said was because he was a recluse. he was disturbed all his life and for the couple months of years prior to his death, he had gone insane.
you explained the thought about his comment very well.
for all his philosophy, he died a madman.
contrast this with the great ancient philosophers like socrates, plato, marcus aurelius. these men practiced what they preached.
philosophy should yield wisdom and clarity, not confusing intellectualism.
@whyeatedpies He wasn't disturbed all his life...Nietzche said he never lived an unhappy day in his life. He embraced himself as an individual and embraced what gave him meaning. He strived to be an overman. It was towards the end of his life he went insane, possibly due to a mental illness or drugs.
@TDP788 this is a very unfortunate situation that we herald the conflicted individual as a philosopher.
GREAT MEN such as socrates, pythagoras, marcus aurelius IMMERSED their lives into the marketplace, traveled, acted normal, mingled with the common folk and by careful observations attained wisdom not that they didn't ask "why we are here" etc but they didn't go off to the mountains cut off from society writing junk in the garb of a great intellectual work.
@whyeatedpies junk in the garb of a great intellectual work? You are sorely mistaken, my friend. He did retreat to the mountains, and he may have lived in solitude for long periods of time, but this does not take away from the brilliance of his work. He was a writer and may have been introverted, but why does that make him depressed or a quack? And these other geeks you refer to that "Acted normal"? Define normal? You mean someone who fits in with the herd? Socrates was a bore...
@TheHomelessCripple No, I think he was hugging it or something after it was whipped in the street, and upon throwing his arms around it, he collapsed and fainted. Something like that.
@theashesst1r@theashesst1r he did have a large mustache, though. It doesn't really assert it was always the same, although most people probably assume that.
I remember the America (United States) my Grandfather taught me about. Hard work was all you needed to get a head. And I like to think that for a time this was true. By as I get older I think more of how successful you are has to do with being a member of the Lucky Sperm Club. This is not mean I no longer believe in hard work; it just I know the highest echelons may not be accessible due my lowly social status.
doors are closed off to you too. there was more opportunity for a better life financialy. quality of life in the us is less now. this isnt complaining. but its true. theres lots of ppl in the usa that succeeded for reasons havin nothin to do with hard work. lucky sperm, right place n time, low expectations of ability.
I think I know some other philosophers who said similar things about hardship (and even more who lived it), Nietzsche wasn't the only one... and in the end it simply comes down to the fact that it takes a lot of pressure to compress coal into a diamond.
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lived alone and secluded, failed utterly with women, and went batshit insane... sounds like a great dude to be taking life advice from... clearly had a plethora of experience to draw wisdom from... lol
I like how the example of 'overcoming' is a ballerina dancer. Its appropriate considering Nietzsche's imagery of the dancer and dancing, and giving 'birth to a dancing star' . People often think of Nietzsche as a heavy, divisive sort of philosopher when often he praises, lightheartedness, foolishness, gaiety, agility, play and enjoying oneself.
Dancing is a great metaphor for the ideal state. It is struggle and constriction disguised and mastered as art and enjoyment.
"If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards If you care for others, then dispense with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles."
The mental attitude of equanimity and dispassionate outlook in front of events was also characteristic of the Cynics and Stoics, who called it "Apatheia"Nagarjuna's dialectic developed in the Madhyamaka can be paralleled to the Greek dialectical tradition
the ridiculous thing is that Nietzsche didn't have a large mustache throughout his life...it was only near the end of his life when his sister 'took care' of him - no one trimmed it when he went mad...this guy may know some things about Nietzsche, but he completely made that part up...
@xARMINIUSx, What an irrelevant piece of knowledge to be known by all in Europe...Yeah, you guys nowadays talk big about your cultural legacy, but when it comes to contemporary society, you have passionat studies of philosophers' facial hair and simply use Beethoven's Ode to Joy as the EU anthem. Not that North America, the land of Paris Hilton and Toby Keith is any better than metrosexual Europe. The West truly has become a stupid dog surfing on a sea of crap in the ocean of globalization.
well. i cant say it isnt. on my page i wrote: what would an european of 200 hundred years ago say about our society. is this where we have toiled for ? etc . so in a sence ur right. But again there is still MUCH very much potential in Europe.....
@xARMINIUSx: I mean only the large moustache, the massive un-trimmed one that has become a staple image for him. That did not happen until near the end of his life.
I think this doc is a bit overwrought. With a bit of distance, a lot of the sufferings that Nietzsche suffered sound funny -- and I think Nietzsche would agree that they WERE funny.
I think that's his point with regard to suffering, really. Better to have a satirist's view of one's own petty hardships than to play weepy music and mourn over them.
Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE
What is the music that plays at the beginning? I like.
Newworld444 1 week ago
the music is much too high, some words are not heared well!!!
oares00 1 week ago in playlist Watch Later Playlist
Many were appalled by his large mustache.' lol
Batushain 2 weeks ago
@Batushain Salvador Dali apparently was.
1001orpheus 1 week ago
the picture on my hdtv sucked compared to this, nice
JazzKeyboardist1 3 weeks ago
6:55 dat ass
Introspection7 1 month ago
(Dhs!)
poetryingreen 1 month ago
Nietzsche, to me, was a Darwinian who studied the human species.
MrXephyr 1 month ago
"You have a nest; I have, at best, a 'cave'." [hmm, sounds like my life *rolls eyes*]
CypherInfinity2 2 months ago
Actually, Ayn Rand is ONE of the representations of what Nietzsche was talking about... So was Hitler... And Ted Bundy... The will to power is a very very very broad circle.....
renumeratedfrog 2 months ago
@renumeratedfrog ted bundy is not an example of will to power at all! Will to power constitutes doing whatever pleases you interanally, it is based off of action not reaction, which is what ted bundy's murders were, reactions to finding out his parents were actually his grand parents, that his sister was really his mother and so forth. His actions were all based for external reasons thus not truly being a will to power.
hedonisticpride 2 months ago
@renumeratedfrog Yeah, not to be a dick, but you haven't the slightest understanding of the will to power. Nietzsche explicitly and repeatedly says that people who have the *need* to exert power over others (like Bundy) do so out of a lack of ability to exert power over themselves. Serial killers are weak individuals, who tyrannize others to quell feelings of inadequacy and vulnerability. Nietzsche's ubermensch dominates other incidentally, as a means toward achieving his own goals.
fromis111 1 month ago
@fromis111 Keep repeating that little mantra to yourself... The very fact that you're trying to convince me that your little idiotic idea is better than mine, is an example of the will to power...
renumeratedfrog 1 month ago
@renumeratedfrog Yes, it is an example of the will to power. Seeing that Nietzsche views the will to power as pervading everything, I can hardly see how that's an insult. And nothing I've said is controversial. Allow me to simplify it for you: Nietzsche's noble spirits have self-control, self-discipline. Psychopaths are impulsive and undisciplined. But continue slandering Nietzsche by association if it makes you feel better.
fromis111 1 month ago
i read he actually didn't have syphillis, that it was more likely a brain tumor, which his father had passed away from. anyone have more info on this?
777mrmusicman 2 months ago
thank god they put the ballerina in here. i seriously hate this guy and his videos. hes such a fuckin douche 9:58
AustinPure 3 months ago
I come for the comments moreso than the actual videos, most times.
dice4death 3 months ago
Hitler was a nationalistic german, Neitzsche was a germanophobe.
Hitler was anti-semetic, Neitzsche was a strong supporter of the Jewry.
Hitler believed in dogma and saw religion as a necessary tool for society, Neitzsche thought religion should be discarded for the betterment of society, and that we should be individualistic.
Hitler was a ponce, Neitzche was a bro.
to all Nazis referencing Neitzche: he thought you should all be shot! fuck off!
EVERYVERSER 3 months ago 6
@EVERYVERSER he was a strong supporter of Jewry? LMAO!!!
BigDog91527 3 weeks ago
@EVERYVERSER I guess you never saw many of Neitzsche's quotes regarding jews. Your reverse bigotry regarding the third reich does you no favors.
Tluccodis741 4 days ago
h i g h m i n d s d o t c o m is an interesting website...
BlessTheReal 3 months ago
Nietzsche was a remarkable man, so remarkable that he was shunned by women since they had nothing in common
BlessTheReal 3 months ago
I really enjoy these productions because the host doesn't seem to be trying to push an educational or political agenda, which a lot of philosophers seem intent on doing nowadays. He simply presents a general outline and facts, very refreshing, and a very charming personality. Keep them coming.
PoetsLight 4 months ago
maybe they wouldn't sleep with him because he had syphilis.
AEVautomatic 4 months ago
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behzad500bc 4 months ago
Thank you very much for this documentary :) I saw this about 3 years ago when i was in severe depression and today after lessons learned from Nietzsche i scored 4 A*'s in my A-levels .
xmuneebx 5 months ago 19
to close the philosophy a guide to happiness series with golden zipper !! nietzche the UBERMENSH jajaja
IntiqYana 5 months ago
Suffer the Joy
chubbychechu2010 6 months ago
I really like the de Botton programs, but the music is disturbing.
in this episode all I think of is Final Fantasy VII.
tigerlovesrupert 6 months ago
Never mind i get it now
FireAndIce347 6 months ago
Sorry I don't undersand, but what did Nietzsche gain exactly? He suffered all throughout his life, and became insane. How was he rewarded?
FireAndIce347 6 months ago
You grow a 'stash like that, you're begging to be shunned.
Also syphlis causes insanity, and it had been brewing in him since he was a school-lad, it's unwise to believe and put much stock in the ramblings of the insane.
BillRoyMcBill 6 months ago
@BillRoyMcBill it's debatable if he actually had syphilis...if he had syphilis, the disease happens in stages and lies dormant sometimes for decades while since it is a bacteria deteriorates portions of the brain at a time and not the whole simultaneously...finally an idea or theory is not to be measured by the person presenting but by its own merit (e.g. John Nash in Economics).
socrates757 6 months ago
@BillRoyMcBill basically he might not of had it and if he did the extent of influence of the disease to his writings caused by the disease is debatable and even if it is not debatable the idea(s) are to be discussed and not the quality of the mind of those that hold to that idea.
socrates757 6 months ago
@socrates757 I see the point of what you are saying, but I don't see the point in doing it. = )
BillRoyMcBill 6 months ago
beleived himself 2 b jesus?napolean? n danced naked i heard he went mad but i never knew he passed that and hit insanity
527matt 7 months ago
What did Friedrich Nietzsche say to the magic 8ball? I mustache you a question!
beavisandbutthead104 7 months ago
Fuck Ayn Rand.. selfish feminist jew-whore
jehovahhasheard 7 months ago
Hi all, can anyone offer any sound advice? I having a huge setback now. Friends, Job N gf left. Anyone come close to my problem?
macrick 7 months ago
@macrick I've suffered far worse than any of the problems that you're having at the moment. I would suggest that you listen to what is being taught about hardship through the works of Nietzsche in this documentary. It is to be welcomed because it strengthens you.Rejoice in your sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character. Know that at the end of the struggle you will be a new creature in a way, far braver, wiser and resilient than you were before
TheGreatZurEnRaah 7 months ago 2
@TheGreatZurEnRaah Thanks for the advice, maybe I turn out better but only time will tell, thank you
macrick 7 months ago
@TheGreatZurEnRaah well said, i am going through such a tough time in my life and feel so lost right now, hearing what u said just gives me the motivation to keep pushing on.. thank u
oliverheartt 7 months ago
@macrick Well, if you agree with Nietzsche, be glad it happened.
owsleythebear 7 months ago
he fucking digs that ballerina
Shauzia3 7 months ago 2
They should air more regarding the subject of philosphy here in the U.S :)
CiaoBello21 7 months ago 3
Wow. This kind of changed my life.
wodiya 7 months ago
whats wrong with dancing naked?
sokingssddk 7 months ago
lol ayn rand. lololol. she is not even in the same universe as nietzsche.
mtbx 8 months ago
Wonderful video. I wrote a piece and later performed it, called ¨A Sexy Piano¨, inspired by Alain´s piece on Nietzsche. Alain you made me interested in philosophy. Great writing.
jonflynn1 8 months ago in playlist Alain de Boton - Nietzsche on Hardship
Anyone knows the name of the musical piece heard on the background? I mean when the town of sils-maria and sarrounding landscape is shown
childericking 9 months ago
if the mustache frightened the ladies, why didn't he shave it?
i mean.....being a clear-thinking individual and all.
sd62t833 10 months ago 9
@sd62t833 "Don"t try to change me, babe." was probably one of his saying. Plus, the 'stache would work good for fronting a metal band. lol.
votumseparatum1 9 months ago
@sd62t833
His power lies in the mustache
unfad1ng 9 months ago
@sd62t833 Not that this is really important, but what I'm wondering is...how does Alain actually know that many women were "frightened by his large mustache"?
gwpugh 8 months ago
@sd62t833 you know theres nothin wrong with frightening the ladies
plannin4 8 months ago
@plannin4 but that wasn't his intention. he was lonely. so it makes no sense. and his views on suffering undescore a masochistic tendency. like most people, he didn't see the world beyond suffering; the world he himself had created for himself.
sd62t833 8 months ago
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ADugas661 7 months ago
@sd62t833 because he was a clear thinking individual.
mikeylikesit2675 1 month ago
@mikeylikesit2675 but he said he was desperately lonely and jealous of his friend's marriage....there's something to be said for being alone, but he clearly never got past loneliness.
sd62t833 1 month ago
@sd62t833 maybe cause he liked it that way and didn't give a fuck in general
0live0wire0 1 month ago
@0live0wire0 he wrote to his friend how lonely he was being unmarried...so he gave a fuck...about himself and his own loneliness....but was incapable of locating a barber shop.
sd62t833 1 month ago
Always loved this video and awesome upload!
Reminisce86 10 months ago
nevermind I looked it up, it wasn't a metaphor or a eufemism
dvkevin 11 months ago
"embraced a horse " what did he mean by that?
dvkevin 11 months ago
@dvkevin In January 1889 Frederich Nietzsche collapsed in Turin, Italy after he embraced a horse who was being whipped/beaten and tried to protect the horse. He then collapsed and was moved in with his mother; and spent the last 10 years of his life completely insane.
QRF11B 11 months ago
Ayn Rand was a pseudophilosopher. Don't even mention her name with Nietzsche. Gross!
alifeofreason 1 year ago 5
@alifeofreason Just out of curiosity, why would you categorize Ayn Rand as a pseudo philosopher?
HuMuSuX 11 months ago
@HuMuSuX
i agree Rand was aperfectly good philosopher, you dont have to agree with her to recognize that
unfad1ng 10 months ago
@unfad1ng She was a sham writer and a sham philosophy.
danieljliversLXXXIX 9 months ago
@danieljliversLXXXIX
You dont have to agree with her to recognize her as a philosopher.
There are many philosophers i dont agree with but i still recognize them as philosophers.
unfad1ng 9 months ago
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@unfad1ng "You dont have to agree with her to recognize her as a philosopher." A very bad one then -- a very bland one.
danieljliversLXXXIX 9 months ago
that ballerina has a nice ass
RomansPwnedJesus 1 year ago 3
@RomansPwnedJesus hhah you philosopher guys are horny playas baby
diekontrolleure 1 year ago
Nietzsche would have pwned during Movember
fearnottheflood 1 year ago
Nietzsche Mustache = Fail
cruxto 1 year ago
You where looking in the mirror at 6:54
ZogXll 1 year ago
i like nietsche, i get him
karmacop911 1 year ago 2
Is there a Nietzsche Protege? because i can't find one.
xenoghost01001 1 year ago
@xenoghost01001 Ayn Rand. But later she turned against him.
andrewweis 1 year ago
@andrewweis I disagree. Ayn Rand was a protege only of the most superficial and perverse misinterpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy.
LOLlord117 1 year ago 39
@LOLlord117 Ayn Rand acknowledges that there are similarities between her philosophy and that of N. But if you are thorough in your research you will also find that there are similarities between almost any philosopher. So what I have to tell you is this: criticizing a philosopher is a little out of your league. If you favor Nietzsche's IDEAS so much (which by the way a lot of college students are fascinated with) one cannot help but notice your hypocrisy in your attitude toward A.R.
GregSidelnikov 8 months ago
@LOLlord117 How did you come to that conclusion?
fntime 8 months ago
@LOLlord117 and why was ayn rand wrong on nietzche?
americanliberal09 5 months ago
@americanliberal09 For starters, Rand is an egoist. Nietzsche absolutely destroys the idea of egoism as a coherent idea. There is no ego, only will and force. Defense of the ego is a reaction to force and thus life denying.
Distortion0 5 months ago
@Distortion0 so is egoism is bad then?
americanliberal09 5 months ago
@americanliberal09 It's not even clear that Nietzsche would view it as "bad". It's more misinformed and naive. If Nietzsche had encountered it in his life, he might have just ignored it.
Distortion0 5 months ago
@Distortion0 i thought the ego is you as a person.
to deny the ego is to deny the yourself.
hmmm any explanations sir?
americanliberal09 5 months ago
@americanliberal09 An ego is a strong separation between the person and the world. It's descended from Descartes "Cogito ergo sum" Proponents of egoism view themselves a "Causa Sui", a being which creates itself ex nihlo. Nietzsche's first move is to ridicule the idea that a human being could ever be Causa Sui. His second move is to say that an individualist Cogita Ergo Sum presumes an I where one is not necessary. His third is to say that thoughts arise from surrounds, not individuals.
Distortion0 5 months ago
@Distortion0 of course is true that the individuals didn't create themselves but don't egoist seek their own self interest and obtaining their desires?
isn't that important sir?
americanliberal09 5 months ago
@americanliberal09 The critique is going over your head. For Nietzsche, there is no individual, there only the metaphysics of power. "Their own" is an unintelligible phrase.
Distortion0 5 months ago
@Distortion0 so you don't believe in controlling your own values and property?
or choose your personal space?
to me Nietzsche is little bit mystical just my opinion
americanliberal09 5 months ago
@americanliberal09 Again, your assuming something when you say "Your own". What is a self? Mystical could mean a lot of things. I get the feeling your opposing "mystical" to "practical", which isn't an apt criticism of Nietzsche at all. The greatest philosophers have usually been mystics of some sort, Plato and Augustine being chief examples.
Distortion0 5 months ago
@americanliberal09 I never trust, and advise others to withhold trust, from anyone who uses "sir" after every measly statement they utter.
Peteromich 5 months ago
@Distortion0 Well, perhaps Foucault may outright deny the existence of any individual whatsoever. Nietzsche, on the other hand, was above that. He criticized Descartes for the silly idea that anyone could ever make a clean slate of themselves and that they could be free of the influence of their prehistory, such as their family and cultural heritage.
Peteromich 5 months ago
@Peteromich I think you're taking that statement too lightly. To claim to be an individual in a society is to claim that waves are more important than the sea they travel in. This sort of thinking is present throughout Nietzsche's work. Only if you selectively read can you get this kind of prefaced individualism. Individuals, in Nietzsche, are important as expressions of greater forces.
Distortion0 5 months ago
@Distortion0 Perhaps this is true for the common man of society who is comforted by "drifting aimlessly like a wave on the sea" and who is "like an idiot, his mind is so empty." But for Zarathustra? Zarathustra who says Yes to life, who says Yes to himself, who affirms himself above all else? For Zarathustra who loathes the deep sleep and narcotic which negates life and self?
Peteromich 5 months ago
@LOLlord117 Have you heard of Hitler? The personal politics of Ayn Rand hate is pathetic.
Herv3 5 months ago
We all suffer.
But we all can be happy too.
MrLicolli 1 year ago
We all can suffer.
But, we all can be happy too.
MrLicolli 1 year ago
7:23 i want to philosof' her
pilis83 1 year ago
If only Nietzsche had trimmed that huge 'stache! Maybe he would have got a woman!
MyGrassIsGreenest 1 year ago
@MyGrassIsGreenest What does not kill me turns into mustache
mikeyskywalker 1 year ago
@MyGrassIsGreenest If you don't think that mustache is great you're a faggot. Simple as that.
TristanHaney1 1 year ago
Then,Nietzsche comes and practically says there is no Rationality in this Universe,that there is this other force called Will. Darwin and Freud unlocked important information of the human existence.But Nietzsche came and just took advantage of the rapidly changing times.I have read Thus Spoke Zarathustra 3 times and not once did he actually convince me that we're all alone in the Universe, and that everything depends on pure Will and Hardship.As a philosopher he lacked the 'philo' part.
Raluk54 1 year ago
@Raluk54 Nietzsche came before Freud and consequently influenced many of his thoughts. Nietzsche observed the conditions of beings and thus concluded that we all have this drive for power. It's visible on the microscopic level to the level of human beings. Nietzsche condemns the idea of nihilism as it took away the reason to live. Though he saw no meaning in life from the outer standpoint of the beings, he did see that the point of the being is to feel powerful. He then recommends the passions.
mikeyskywalker 1 year ago
@mikeyskywalker a capite ad calcem I know about Nietzsche's influence on Freud, I merely placed them in the same time frame: 19th century. My comments were some sort of vendetta, because I still can't agree with the man. I've read his works from Thus Spoke Zarathustra to Ecce Homo and so on, and yes, I got from them everything that you wrote above. But with those ideas I disagree completely. I don't have characters enough to write my antithesis, but I'd like to thank you for your opinion.
Raluk54 1 year ago
@Raluk54 Well if you'd like to share your antithesis then feel free to message me, I'd love to here it.
mikeyskywalker 1 year ago
And at the time there were also good Renaissance values(taken from Antiquity) and even God related ones(Kierkegaard)that gave man faith and reason to live.A certainty that it all depends on something that's not that far from their reach.And then just like that everything changes.Darwin tells us were actually related to monkeys, so we're not such an unique divine creature after all, Freud discovers we're not purely intellectual,we have instincts(id, ego, super-ego).
Raluk54 1 year ago
Ok..so he had an interesting philosophy. But he changed so many principles of the time and by that I mean the good, stable ones. Things were going well: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel agreed that there is this force above all superior in the known universe-as in Rationality, even if they taught it can be found in different formes: in man or merely floating around, or rising as time passes.
Raluk54 1 year ago
many were frightened by his large moustache
jesusmobile2 1 year ago 135
@jesusmobile2 Yeah, the damn thing looks like it might start moving all by itself...
veso5554 1 year ago
@jesusmobile2 you would think he realizes that and shaves it for his sake... but that epiphany never exploded in his mind.. surprisingly.
cloudincloudout 1 year ago
@jesusmobile2 That is tragic.
natedaug1 9 months ago
@jesusmobile2 HAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHHAHAHHAHA 05:22
mashinebenz 8 months ago
@jesusmobile2 LOL
RockyMountainPrepper 4 months ago
For all the people with negative comments, why wouldn't you comment on the third video so it would maybe seem like you listened to the whole program. You know nothing of Nietzche's brilliance.
TDP788 1 year ago 2
he was messed up.
whyeatedpies 1 year ago
@whyeatedpies
messed up????..when he says he wished suffering on people, what he was implying was that he wished happiness on people..because in order to reach happiness, one must know and experience suffering. suffering is the first, imperative step to reaching happiness. it's a very wise realization on his part.
itzahazylife 1 year ago 2
@itzahazylife
the reason i said what i said was because he was a recluse. he was disturbed all his life and for the couple months of years prior to his death, he had gone insane.
you explained the thought about his comment very well.
for all his philosophy, he died a madman.
contrast this with the great ancient philosophers like socrates, plato, marcus aurelius. these men practiced what they preached.
philosophy should yield wisdom and clarity, not confusing intellectualism.
whyeatedpies 1 year ago
@whyeatedpies He wasn't disturbed all his life...Nietzche said he never lived an unhappy day in his life. He embraced himself as an individual and embraced what gave him meaning. He strived to be an overman. It was towards the end of his life he went insane, possibly due to a mental illness or drugs.
TDP788 1 year ago
@TDP788 this is a very unfortunate situation that we herald the conflicted individual as a philosopher.
GREAT MEN such as socrates, pythagoras, marcus aurelius IMMERSED their lives into the marketplace, traveled, acted normal, mingled with the common folk and by careful observations attained wisdom not that they didn't ask "why we are here" etc but they didn't go off to the mountains cut off from society writing junk in the garb of a great intellectual work.
whyeatedpies 1 year ago
@whyeatedpies junk in the garb of a great intellectual work? You are sorely mistaken, my friend. He did retreat to the mountains, and he may have lived in solitude for long periods of time, but this does not take away from the brilliance of his work. He was a writer and may have been introverted, but why does that make him depressed or a quack? And these other geeks you refer to that "Acted normal"? Define normal? You mean someone who fits in with the herd? Socrates was a bore...
TDP788 1 year ago
i got a boner when wathing the ballerina stretch
andrewzot 1 year ago
Ron Paul 2012 for President
RunLiberty 1 year ago
@RunLiberty
I'm voting for Buttsex in 2012.
Broyale26 1 year ago
You've reached here and your mentor is Monica.
sayhitoshas 1 year ago
What's the name of the song playing at the beginning?
bxjam85 1 year ago
Now it makes sense that Zarathusra lived in the mountains.
Ebuverthebicepcurler 1 year ago
Thank you, this was beautiful.....
dizzitoast 1 year ago
Nietzsche had sex with a horse? That's just wrong.
TheHomelessCripple 1 year ago
@TheHomelessCripple No, I think he was hugging it or something after it was whipped in the street, and upon throwing his arms around it, he collapsed and fainted. Something like that.
AtheistAltar 1 year ago
"Many were frightened my his large Mustache."
jerryhello100 1 year ago 4
In which books do these Nietzsche quotes come from?
selvmordspilot 1 year ago
Nietzsche for dummies? Right, that's what you need.
poohoff 1 year ago
nietzsche writings are full of energy and power, not technical and colorless but full of passion.
lolzerlolzer 1 year ago
theres a lot of historical innacuracy here. Nietzsche never had that mustache til he was fully mad and in the mental hospital.
theashesst1r 1 year ago
@theashesst1r he did have a large mustache, though. It doesn't really assert it was always the same, although most people probably assume that.
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@theashesst1r @theashesst1r he did have a large mustache, though. It doesn't really assert it was always the same, although most people probably assume that.
AJTwo 1 year ago
I remember the America (United States) my Grandfather taught me about. Hard work was all you needed to get a head. And I like to think that for a time this was true. By as I get older I think more of how successful you are has to do with being a member of the Lucky Sperm Club. This is not mean I no longer believe in hard work; it just I know the highest echelons may not be accessible due my lowly social status.
WolfSnake77 1 year ago
doors are closed off to you too. there was more opportunity for a better life financialy. quality of life in the us is less now. this isnt complaining. but its true. theres lots of ppl in the usa that succeeded for reasons havin nothin to do with hard work. lucky sperm, right place n time, low expectations of ability.
adzug 1 year ago
lol i love how the narrator describes his " large mustache" as frightening
an50331 1 year ago 4
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I don't model myself after him. He was a bitter sociopath.
Uleral 1 year ago
I think I know some other philosophers who said similar things about hardship (and even more who lived it), Nietzsche wasn't the only one... and in the end it simply comes down to the fact that it takes a lot of pressure to compress coal into a diamond.
DoJaenin 1 year ago
Someone tell me what the piece of music at the beginning is?
AltarOfTriumph 1 year ago
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lived alone and secluded, failed utterly with women, and went batshit insane... sounds like a great dude to be taking life advice from... clearly had a plethora of experience to draw wisdom from... lol
AIexandar 1 year ago
does not prove anything about the truth or falsity of his thinking.
gasmbay 1 year ago
he said not to be like him.
cuervocorazon 1 year ago
The products stands astride the reactants, but the former could not do so without the latter.
lelyn1234 1 year ago
Who is Neechae
MrPontiusPilate 2 years ago
@MrPontiusPilate who are you?
view587 1 year ago
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Nietzsche was degenerate and wasteful.
MrPontiusPilate 2 years ago
Why is that?
fntime 2 years ago
@MrPontiusPilate you seem to be doing well for yourself
view587 1 year ago
You must be Jewish.
AltarOfTriumph 1 year ago
@AltarOfTriumph
No, Roman. I make a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn every year. Are you a Philistine?
MrPontiusPilate 1 year ago
@MrPontiusPilate Hah, interesting reply. However, you're still a fool.
AltarOfTriumph 1 year ago
I like how the example of 'overcoming' is a ballerina dancer. Its appropriate considering Nietzsche's imagery of the dancer and dancing, and giving 'birth to a dancing star' . People often think of Nietzsche as a heavy, divisive sort of philosopher when often he praises, lightheartedness, foolishness, gaiety, agility, play and enjoying oneself.
Dancing is a great metaphor for the ideal state. It is struggle and constriction disguised and mastered as art and enjoyment.
Grayto 2 years ago 47
@Grayto Ew, that's one of the reasons I don't fully like him.
nactan 11 months ago
@nactan Why 'ew'? You don't like him because you don't like dancing?
Grayto 11 months ago
"If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards If you care for others, then dispense with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles."
WoodlandRavah 2 years ago 3
The mental attitude of equanimity and dispassionate outlook in front of events was also characteristic of the Cynics and Stoics, who called it "Apatheia"Nagarjuna's dialectic developed in the Madhyamaka can be paralleled to the Greek dialectical tradition
qaplatlhinganmaH 2 years ago
You don't know what you're talking about.
MrPontiusPilate 2 years ago
5:20
its funny when the narrator says "many were frightened by his large mustache" ha ha :)
MrXSpeaks 2 years ago 2
the ridiculous thing is that Nietzsche didn't have a large mustache throughout his life...it was only near the end of his life when his sister 'took care' of him - no one trimmed it when he went mad...this guy may know some things about Nietzsche, but he completely made that part up...
riovuaeb 2 years ago
You are so clueless. Are you ashamed of yourself?
MrPontiusPilate 2 years ago
I think we all are ashamed of you!
fntime 2 years ago
DUDE nIETZSCHE HAD HIS MOUSTACHE SINCE HIS LATE 20'S , EVERYONE IN EUROPE KNOWS THIS
xARMINIUSx 1 year ago
@xARMINIUSx, What an irrelevant piece of knowledge to be known by all in Europe...Yeah, you guys nowadays talk big about your cultural legacy, but when it comes to contemporary society, you have passionat studies of philosophers' facial hair and simply use Beethoven's Ode to Joy as the EU anthem. Not that North America, the land of Paris Hilton and Toby Keith is any better than metrosexual Europe. The West truly has become a stupid dog surfing on a sea of crap in the ocean of globalization.
brcx300 1 year ago
I do recognize my spelling mistake too..passionate.
brcx300 1 year ago
well. i cant say it isnt. on my page i wrote: what would an european of 200 hundred years ago say about our society. is this where we have toiled for ? etc . so in a sence ur right. But again there is still MUCH very much potential in Europe.....
xARMINIUSx 1 year ago
@xARMINIUSx: I mean only the large moustache, the massive un-trimmed one that has become a staple image for him. That did not happen until near the end of his life.
riovuaeb 1 year ago
The concept of sacrificing for wisdom, or acquiring 'genius', is an old one. Hence, the Germanic chief God, Odin.
TheInternetG 2 years ago
You're way off dumbass.
MrPontiusPilate 2 years ago
Buy some rope and hang yourself, autistic piece of shit. :-)
TheInternetG 2 years ago
I think this doc is a bit overwrought. With a bit of distance, a lot of the sufferings that Nietzsche suffered sound funny -- and I think Nietzsche would agree that they WERE funny.
I think that's his point with regard to suffering, really. Better to have a satirist's view of one's own petty hardships than to play weepy music and mourn over them.
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qaplatlhinganmaH 2 years ago
hell yes ....somebody tells me I can't, I do.
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