@nubix223 The ubermensch is the overman, the man who overcomes his humanity, who moves beyond the slave mentality of humanity, beyond ego, god, the subject, morality, all the concepts of the slave. The ubermensch is the man who becomes rather than is. But thanks for your incisive insight!
So the will to power is just how everything is based on a want to obtain power. Does Nietzsche shine a positive light on this issue or does he think this is a negative aspect of the world? Does he take a position at all as to whether this will to power is good/bad?
@cllau13 Uh, no: I actually say something quite different."Power" here does NOT refer to the power OVER something or someone else; it refers to one's own power, one's drive, one's health. The will to power is a metaphysical claim: everything IS its will to power. There is no judgment in this per se; rather, it establishes the rubric for Nietzsche's notion of aesthetic judgment — does something propel life or negate it?
@DanielCoffeen the mentality of dominance is that of the slave, it is antithetical to the ideas N promulgates. The will to power is everything, it is existence itself. The will to power is not our own, correct? It just is, it is our survival. We bree in order to survive but to what purpose other than to bree and survive? Sex is the ultimate will to power, it is makes human being completely irrational. Quit moving the damm camera so much and the audi is too low! Thank you for the Video!
@ Rooley: Yes and no. There is more to it in that there is no nature; nor is there a "you" per se. For Nietzsche, the will to power undoes selfhood and says: you are how you go, over and above everything you think and say you are. So, in some sense, his claim is quite simple: everything goes as it goes. But in that one seemingly simple move, he completely reorients all the tenets of western metaphysics.
But you use a great word: expression. For Nietzsche, the world always expresses itself.
It sounds to me like, at least according to you, Nietzsche's will to power is just any individuals expression of their nature. I'm thinking there must be more to it than this, though I haven't read Nietzsche and so have no idea one way or another.
@quikflow The new man is the one who overcomes man, overcomes humanity and its legacy of ego, guilt, truth, and god (hence his phrase, the overman which has been translated as the superman). The will to power undoes these anchors of humanity by literally turning the world inside out: you are how you go, your expression, and not who you think you are "deep down." The will to power eliminates depth by putting everything at the surface and in motion.
Very well done. Much appreciated. Nietzsche is given this one-dimensional aura by many which at its worst labels him an anti-Semite (he was no such thng, his own words justify that. His sister married an Aryan and sort of co-opted her brother years after his death and she was a Hiter supporter). and at best crudely distills his philosophy into little more than philisophical titanism of will. It's more subtle though.
@DeadSea000 If I'm a bone head, why on earth would you want me to speak up?
It's the old Jewish joke: two old ladies are sitting in a diner. The first one says, "The food here is terrible." To which the second one says, "Yeah, and the portions are so small."
It is very clarifying, thank you. I'm reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" and I arrived at the concept when he claims that philosophy is a Will to Power. This video clarifies it up a whole lot. Now I understand that philosophy is how we make our mark on the world. It is our Will to Power.
i think it is newtons idea of absolute time that is responsible for the fact that we perceive objects as fixed and static, but in reality, there is not anything that is not in motion. our bodies are like seamless unbroken caterpillar-like beams extending themselves continuously through the world. perhaps our truer appearance is more akin to that of trees, branching outwardly towards the light.
Wow someone speaking of Nietzsche who isn't a total idiot. I'm impressed.
Lastman0085 2 weeks ago
i majored in philosophy, but this guy is why i turn and run from it.
3dpando 7 months ago
You Seem to misunderstand the concept of the Ubermensch
nubix223 8 months ago
@nubix223 The ubermensch is the overman, the man who overcomes his humanity, who moves beyond the slave mentality of humanity, beyond ego, god, the subject, morality, all the concepts of the slave. The ubermensch is the man who becomes rather than is. But thanks for your incisive insight!
DanielCoffeen 8 months ago
@DanielCoffeen Beyond ego? Can you tell me what you ment with it, isn't ego itself a will to power?
TheSlovenc123 7 months ago
finally someone on point! great video!
lloplop 9 months ago
So the will to power is just how everything is based on a want to obtain power. Does Nietzsche shine a positive light on this issue or does he think this is a negative aspect of the world? Does he take a position at all as to whether this will to power is good/bad?
cllau13 10 months ago
@cllau13 Uh, no: I actually say something quite different."Power" here does NOT refer to the power OVER something or someone else; it refers to one's own power, one's drive, one's health. The will to power is a metaphysical claim: everything IS its will to power. There is no judgment in this per se; rather, it establishes the rubric for Nietzsche's notion of aesthetic judgment — does something propel life or negate it?
DanielCoffeen 10 months ago
@DanielCoffeen the mentality of dominance is that of the slave, it is antithetical to the ideas N promulgates. The will to power is everything, it is existence itself. The will to power is not our own, correct? It just is, it is our survival. We bree in order to survive but to what purpose other than to bree and survive? Sex is the ultimate will to power, it is makes human being completely irrational. Quit moving the damm camera so much and the audi is too low! Thank you for the Video!
PETEYPABLO1977 6 months ago
@ Rooley: Yes and no. There is more to it in that there is no nature; nor is there a "you" per se. For Nietzsche, the will to power undoes selfhood and says: you are how you go, over and above everything you think and say you are. So, in some sense, his claim is quite simple: everything goes as it goes. But in that one seemingly simple move, he completely reorients all the tenets of western metaphysics.
But you use a great word: expression. For Nietzsche, the world always expresses itself.
DanielCoffeen 11 months ago
It sounds to me like, at least according to you, Nietzsche's will to power is just any individuals expression of their nature. I'm thinking there must be more to it than this, though I haven't read Nietzsche and so have no idea one way or another.
rooley 11 months ago
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rooley 11 months ago
what is will to power, and what is it and how does it create a "new man".
quikflow 1 year ago
@quikflow The new man is the one who overcomes man, overcomes humanity and its legacy of ego, guilt, truth, and god (hence his phrase, the overman which has been translated as the superman). The will to power undoes these anchors of humanity by literally turning the world inside out: you are how you go, your expression, and not who you think you are "deep down." The will to power eliminates depth by putting everything at the surface and in motion.
DanielCoffeen 11 months ago
Very well done. Much appreciated. Nietzsche is given this one-dimensional aura by many which at its worst labels him an anti-Semite (he was no such thng, his own words justify that. His sister married an Aryan and sort of co-opted her brother years after his death and she was a Hiter supporter). and at best crudely distills his philosophy into little more than philisophical titanism of will. It's more subtle though.
spacecowboynj 1 year ago
@DeadSea000 If I'm a bone head, why on earth would you want me to speak up?
It's the old Jewish joke: two old ladies are sitting in a diner. The first one says, "The food here is terrible." To which the second one says, "Yeah, and the portions are so small."
DanielCoffeen 1 year ago 6
@DanielCoffeen haha Well played.
rooley 11 months ago
It is very clarifying, thank you. I'm reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" and I arrived at the concept when he claims that philosophy is a Will to Power. This video clarifies it up a whole lot. Now I understand that philosophy is how we make our mark on the world. It is our Will to Power.
PhilosophicMinds 1 year ago
i think it is newtons idea of absolute time that is responsible for the fact that we perceive objects as fixed and static, but in reality, there is not anything that is not in motion. our bodies are like seamless unbroken caterpillar-like beams extending themselves continuously through the world. perhaps our truer appearance is more akin to that of trees, branching outwardly towards the light.
eriksinger 1 year ago