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  • 5:55 I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy! LOL

  • @urbandenizen hahahaha

  • i would disagree with Nietzsche on alcohol and drug use. They're not always used as an escape, but can actually make you see and experience many things you normally wouldn't, thus giving a broader perspectives on various subjects. Such substances are tools, and when used properly can bring many benefits. But after all it's a matter of taste. Dostoyevsky, who he admired, saw it differently.

  • I love Christ.

  • Alain de botton is such a great interviewer; watching his videos. Can make you wish for a new Renascence.

  • Nietzsche was amazing, such a peculiuar butterfly..

  • how was he against alcohol if he loved Dionysus? this guy needs to check himself before he speaks.

  • @AustinPure Fool, why don't you try reading Nietzsche, instead of watching this grossly simplified documentary on his philosophy, before making statements. Dionysus and Apollo are used as METAPHORS for two forces at work in human personality. Dionysus symbolizes the passions, impulses, and instincts, whereas Apollo symbolizes order, form, and intellect. Like a tightly strung bow, the human ideal is realized in the unity of passion and reason.

  • @AustinPure it was more the concept of Dionysus, living in harmony with nature, love of the body, sensuality, dance. Your getting to bogged down with specifics. Its ok, we all need time to grow your just still struggling to get your thumb out of your mouth.

  • Nietzsche's thought was so profound that any analysis of it will inevitably fall short in some respect, but some analyses come much closer than others. In my view, this video is simplified to the point of being misrepresentative.

  • @adamjfine Rather: this video is misrepresentative to the point of being a joke.

  • the roots aren't ugly. that's culturally determined. but i get what you're saying.

  • @caroched On the contrary, human nature is undeniably too complicated to only have one cause. The entire nature vs. nurture debate is fallacious, for it is a causal oversimplification of reality. Human nature is determined both by evolutionary biology and psychology, as well as culture. In other words, they are two different sides to the same coin. Our evolution plays a pivotal role in determining our nature. Try reading current articles and books on evolutionary psychology to better understand.

  • @xXubermimXx I agree this black and white dualistic approach to live is sickening. People worry about the world ending? It already did when the complexity, sophistication, and timeless wisdom of polytheistic cultures in the Americas and Africa got FUCKED in the ASS by intellectually overwrought dandies that happened to carry advanced weaponry.

  • Nietzsche makes some great points which appeal to our logical senses, but happiness is largely an emotional experience which is sometimes at complete odds with our logical knowledge.

    I am largely attracted to my friend's fiance, to the point where it causes me grief. To sleep with her would give me great satisfaction, but I understand that there would be severe consiquences to doing this, yet I still desire her.

    Trying to solve emotional problems with pure logic is Nietzsche's largest failure.

  • @faxanidu You're a jackass for thinking that Nietzsche was trying to solve emotional problems with pure logic. You have no idea what you are talking about. And as Nietzsche said: "If you can't hit the nail on the head, please, don't try to hit it at all." Of course, you are nowhere near hitting the nail at all. So go ahead and swing away, you flailing brute.

  • @faxanidu Except that Nietzsche's thought hardly constitutes "pure logic," especially when it comes to self-overcoming. Maybe you should watch more than just this single documentary? It is a rather oversimplified, childish one.

  • @RhymesWithFudge haha hell yeah, among other things, Nietzsche talks about the beauty of chance and the necessity of chaos in the heart in order "to give birth to star." dude was GOIN HAM haha

  • @faxanidu Although I agree with you when it comes to most philosophers, this documentary greatly simplifies Nietzsche's philosophy, which is already vastly misunderstood and misrepresented. Nietzsche presaged existentialism, which asserts the importance of passion over reason, subjectivity over objectivity, and the importance of the individual over the abstract. Judging from your argument, you sound as though you have never read a book by Nietzsche.

  • @xXubermimXx People are so "for or against" it really bugs me. Nietzsche was not for or against logic, or for or against chaos and chance, he WAS THE SUM OF RATIONALITY AND FURY.

  • Water is the BEST!

  • So to visit a pub is to visit a church? Sweet! I'm gonna go get my religion on tonight!

  • @1979cyndi

    have you seen the Simpsons Movie,

    where the town is coming to an end and the people in the church run in to the bar, and vice versa.

  • drinking doesn't help me escape my troubles, if I'm doing shitty, I don't drink because I'll feel worse

    I only drink when I'm already in a good mood, it enhances my happiness, obviously

  • nietzsche is a hypocrite

  • @joeglimmix because you preach philosiphy does not mean you have to follow it, it would be in your best intrest to do so.

  • i've never been to naples - however, i've been to a few nipples.

  • Anyone knows the name of the musical piece heard on the background?

  • Fantastic

  • Water - The Nietzschean Drink. Aquafina's new slogan.

  • Water: The Nietzschean Drink

  • AWESOME

  • litle Friedrich..., no litle Nietzche. You must be cared of details... in your begining great career of Philósopher

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  • Rightly Said: In life chances taking chances and risks is very important, that insecurity comes with that makes a man a better human being. I have done that and let myself fall in the hands of destiny and fate with sheer insecurity about the future. That taught me a lot about life and it was the biggest lesson of my life. It requires some amount of guts and its fun. I wonder how people just dont let this happen in life and live in some sort of security all their lives. Its coward's path.

  • Nietzsche also said that if one doesn't want to die of thirst, he must learn to drink from all cups.

  • @CommiGhost even two girls and one cup?

  • "Water: the Nietzschean drink" That would make for great bottled water advertisements.

  • When virtue sleeps, she wakes up better rested- Nietzsche.

  • Nietzsche was sXe as fuck! 

  • @LovexandxRage Why- because of the mustache or the philosophy?

  • @Ebuverthebicepcurler I think a case could be made for both...I mean, I could totally see Nietzsche being way more down with Earth Crisis and Chokehold than into Ke$ha or Lady GaGa.

  • @LovexandxRage He did like the works of Wagner, befriending him for a time until he broke his friendship over Wagner's racism and nationalism.

  • @Ebuverthebicepcurler Not so much, I think the main reason it was Wagner, full convertion to christianism and his devotion for the second Reich,. since Nietzsche himself were racist too.

  • @milkau828 He may have been racist, but if you read his works you fight he hated anti-Semites, and that he commented on the virtues of the Jews. The comments made in the Antichrist are to be a mocking of anti-Semites by showing their beloved religion to be Jews in nature- making them Jews in the process. He called the old testament more virtuous than the new, and said the jew had much to offer for the new European man.

  • @Ebuverthebicepcurler most of his pro-Jew comments aren't in his major works, so I understand why you wouldn't know about them. From wikipedia's article on his philosophy- "Although Nietzsche has famously been represented as a predecessor to Nazism, he also criticized anti-Semitism, pan-Germanism and, to a lesser extent, nationalism."

  • @Ebuverthebicepcurler Like you said, his grudge against anti-semites of the epoch was mainly about them criticizing judaism while being christians themselves, and even though praising some jewish qualities as their adaptabilty and spiritual dinamism in early books as "human, all to human", I think Nietzsche's last word when it comes to jewish culture, is said on the Antichrist, where he smashes every possible worthiness of every semitic derived culture. Except Islam perhaps.

  • @milkau828 The goal of Antichrist was to show Christianity to be the worst possible religion, showing it to be lesser than Buddhism, Judaism and Hinduism and showing it's falseness(all of christian thought never touches reality). I see no evidence he hated anti-Semites simply because they where hypocrites, and if you want to make a case for racism Nietzche's strongest statements where anti-German.

  • @Ebuverthebicepcurler In my opinion the main reason Nietzsche was anti-german was because of their nationalism, Nietzsche thought of a unified Europe, with the development of a European man, that would brought in himself all the european qualities, Nietzsche looked forward Europe as nation, and he saw in German nationalism the main obstacle towards it, that's the motive, I think, he admired Napoleon so much as a great man.

  • @milkau828 Nietzche was pro-Europe, absolutely correct. In the anti-christ he does little to extol Judaism, true, but he still intends for Christianity to be the worst of the lot. The summary at the end shows that. Now Nietzche did attack Judaism, but it was the latter version of it. The god as symbolic with victory version of Judaism seemed to him to be more lively. Of course, as much as he may praise any religion, he defiantly isn't for any of them.

  • @Ebuverthebicepcurler Also, even a harsh attack on Judaism doesn't= an attack on the Jewish race.

  • @Ebuverthebicepcurler yeah because you can't be a say German who is Jewish, to be a jewish you need to be a jew

  • @cantroos Judaism=religion

  • @Ebuverthebicepcurler same dif though. If you believe in christianity you're a christian, if it's islam your a muslim. It's just semantics.

  • @cantroos Uh, christian isn't a race, so do you agree then Nietzsche might be against Judaism but like the Jewish people? If you read his work you'll see this is the case.

  • @Ebuverthebicepcurler There isn't such a thing as human races either I dont think. There is one human race and many culture.

  • @XXGDUBSXX Race may be unimportant, but it does exist. The difference in races is mainly culture, I can agree on that.

  • @Ebuverthebicepcurler Yes there are races but for us human primates a different race to humans would be say a Neaderthal but what is sad about humanity is people claim race as the difference when in fact it is culture.

  • @XXGDUBSXX I agree

  • @Ebuverthebicepcurler And from what I got from the Antichrist, he put most times, judaism in the same level of christianity.

  • I think the worse that could ever happen to a person is when he becomes apathetic to repeated failures. Does nothing to change but everything to avoid.

  • Their conversation around 1:26 reminds me of George Orwell---

    "It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs- and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety."

    "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933)

  • i want a beer

  • And that, my friends, is why magicians really summon demons :)

  • He criticizes Christianity for designating problems as assets... right after advocating something similar himself...

  • @saadsultan4444 he allegedly believed that problems could become assets if we responded to them correctly and overcame them. Christianity, according to his beliefs, designated problems as assets and inspired inaction, i.e. "Don't try to remedy your poverty or timid nature or lack of friends, because you are blessed and will be rewarded in heaven."

  • a casual stroll through the lunatic asylum proves that faith proves nothing.

  • I never had a good reason to drink.....I got nothing to forget

    I like all my senses

  • @Sturmmann - Dont think you more intelligent then Frederich cause youre not

  • @frogbuster20

    WHAT!?!?

    where the fuck did you get that idea?

    learn to read

    i dont give a fuck if im smarter than a rotting corpse 6 feet under the ground

  • @Sturmmann - My mistake, the comment was not for you

  • "make lemonade out of lemons"

    it only takes one sentence, it's not some profound thing deserving of all this reverence people seem to have... this is why philosophy is fucking retarded, they take a simple, common sense concept and turn it into a pretentious, unnecessarily complex load of theoretical bs completely detached from reality and real life experience... graaarhkjnewkrjn232

  • @AIexandar That may be so, but think about it like this. Do you remember that joke image of a triangle with an instruction to find x that had a line drawn to it with the phrase, "here it is," on the side? Common sense is like the line drawn to the x. Philosophy is like doing the actual geometry. At least that's what I think in this case.

  • Schools of meditation to soften the time.

  • Love Never Ceases!

  • Yes. Let's ignore suicide, and completely, with fickle disposition, consider that the ones who've embraced and succeeded, many via "luck" alone, justifies and brings into focus the proper and well constructed machine of toil, agony, despair, suffering and pain.

  • there are myths and tradgdys and i knew you and i loved you.

  • all for one and one for all here to the crusified one and his fall.

  • nietzche is nietzchining my mind.. !

  • Nietzsche was genius.

  • @TheInternetG no he wasnt

  • @TheInternetG nietzsche was A genius. lern basic grammar you little cunt

  • @diekontrolleure Learn how to spell.

  • @npplscorpion fuck off

  • @diekontrolleure Learn to spell and capitalize letters in the beginning of sentences you little cunt.

  • nietzsche hate Christianity and wrote the antiCrist but ironiclly he passionally defends Jesus despite the lies of the new testament and he advise that to live fully we must break our boundries all the time andwe must look for danger risking life for a good cause even he went further and said that we have to provocate danger and pain at the end of his book the "the will of power

    ' he said "i desire all the pain all the suffering all the humillation,all the injustice to you

    '

  • The Guy JigSaw mist have read about this guy

  • The quote used to justify being timid and hated is taken out of context.

    It only applied to the preachers who had to make their mind up whether they wanted to go out and preach the gospel or not. Jesus knew that someone would hate them, and insult them and curse thme, so he gave that back of confidence.

  • philosophy for the dim of mind!

  • Well said.

  • How so? Who is better?

  • We dishonor Nietzsche when all we can offer is praise.

  • make lemonade out of lemons yo!

  • A Lotus grows in the mud...

  • he wanted to become a gardener, but it never came to fruition.

  • @netcyrus Good one.

  • Thank you for posting this. This is a really great documentary. It's very stimulating with philosophical ideas and also visually appealing. Hardship, suffering...some of the most important things for us consider and try to understand in life.

  • LOL

  • thanks for posting. seems i have been a philosopher myself without realizing it.

  • he would say about evangelicals: They say love one another but send eveybody to hell who dont fit their idea,they are humble to go to heaven, they scorn the mightyfull but arent they selfs also triving towards might ? Humble to be the FIRST IN HEAVEN, the later on earth but the FIRST IN HEAVEN ? the difference is that evangelicals are good, cause they think they wil be in heaven 4 ever so they do it in excange for something. They scorn this live and world, & exchange it for another unreal world

  • yeah wel , the evangelicals are incapable of understanding him, its simply as that. And Nietzsche didnt drink didnt smoke, thats common knwledge ! He did have sex in his college years, ( but who not only the evangelicals probably but theynever do nothing so nobody notice) and there he got his syfilis, that caught up with him when he got older, from the tirth book of zarathustra, and after genealogie of the mral start taking t with a grain of salt

  • thank u for posting the wonderful clips.

  • Nietzsche hates you.

  • Evangelical Christians pour scorn on Nietzsche because they do not understand his philosophy. Nietzsche is very close to Christianity, in that a lot of his gripe was with Christian virtue and morality. Nietzsche did drink beer and eat cream cakes and he did smoke but he gave it up and tried to follow an ascetic life. You see, Nietzsche knew that he was a product of modernity- sickness, but he also knew he had to overcome it so that he would not perish. Its a very enobling philosophy.

  • Darkened powers are now caressing my mind. In my unveiling, a body of shade. My heart, his infernal tongue. Blasphemous rituals are the way to Lucifer. We all adore the work of the devil. The path to his evil incarnation. He is below and above you. His life is ecstasy in yours. We are under the inverted cross of the lord. Pray to your weak god of infinity. Your shattered prayers are soon forgotten. You are a stranger to our champion. I will lead you to the throne of Old Nick.
  • Beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beatiful.

  • on youtube i saw that nietsche said God is dead and christianity is bad

    is that true or what do you think?

    how can Christ help anybody that says He is dead

    waiting foryour answer

    yours sincerely winny

  • christ and god wont help nobody cause they're DEAD!

  • Christ can't help anyone who thinks Christ is dead. They say "I refuse to take Christ in, therefore, Christ is not real!" It is Stupidity. ((Winnie))

  • my comment is gone and i do nt understand .

    again

    is your name really winnie?

    other people can pray for blessings on people who think Christ is dead.

    winny

  • You're an idiot.

  • thanks for the compliment.

    very intelligent answer!!

    makes my day!!!

  • u are a ridicule person

  • maybe i am just a mirror.

  • great video series. i don't agree with the bit on the pub, wholly. although, even in disagreement, one can attain something valuable from nietzsche--which is the case for me in this regard.

  • invented the theory of a superior race!

    can you be as good as to quote me a passage, in which he advocates the theory of a superior race. what book,which page.

    listen to Jesus, and win!

    win what exacly?

    the lottery, the afterlife, a license to kill, a license to forgive.

    most importantly what is Jesus, who interprets him to me.

    why are you bothered by Nietzsche, why does he get on your nerves.

    simply because you are holding on to an idea, and he is the possibility you might be wrong.

  • all my life i have heard that Nietzsche was the brain after the nazi theory hitlergermany

    but excuse me thats because i never wanted to know or read his book

    win is my name or winny

  • well, you should read a little history then my dear.

    his writings were forged by his sister and later used by hitler.

    second, the racial theory was the mood prevailing in europe by that time, read it in Darwin, Hegel, and a whole other bunch, in a speech of US president william howard taft in 1933.

    third, many people killed, the whole crusade was done in the name of Christ, but you don't call Christ a criminal, do you?

    if you are ready to criminize Jesus for Christian crimes be my guest.

  • The idioms of the French Revolution were: Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood. But at the same time, the french were colonizing many parts of the world, subjugating native people, calling it "mission civilatrice", and committing many atrocities, the worst being in Algeria.

    But I don't suppose you stopped believing in the french revolution ideals, just because the french committed murders in there name, do you?

  • But it is religions ability to overpower mans ability to think for himself that is the worst part of it, that is religions largest crime.

  • makes you reflect on the nature of man.

    as Dostoevsky argued in one of his books, Christ wanted to free man, he wanted to teach him that he could do things, make choices out of his own free will, but indeed man did not understand that, man wanted and felt comfortable in being subjugated, somehow one feels more at home if he is ruled over, a certain safety in the matter.

    and it is for that reason that Christ died on the cross, according to Dostoevsky.

  • thank you very much Jesus teached us not to judge but i did and only because what i heard from others so i was very wrong i am sorry

    yours sincerely winny

  • one should never judge, judgment is always final, in life, nothing ever is, everyday is our a judgment day.

    jesus was a great person, and i am an atheist do not mistake me, but i still admire him, though i believe that he was misunerstood, most of all by those who call themselves christians.

    it angers me when people say, that god stroke nietzsche.

    he was one of the gentlest creatures ever, and if god does exist, i don't think he'd be so cruel as to strike a person for not believing in him...

  • call God cosmic law

    the bible is one great warning  i call myself Jesusfan ihave to because He saved me in an isolationcell from psychose

    i also am a genius thats why it touches me

    so about nietzsche

    you are right people misunderstood Jesus

    they mmisunderstood or kill or lock up

    i was locked up 5 times had to take 18 pills a day

    its amiracle i am still alive

    if you want to know more read my reactions to the people on my chanel to visit their chanel

    blessings winny

  • say something either absolutely wrong or absolutely right then you can expect to be jumped on either justly or brutely. you have, i believe, been jumped on justly.

  • i think the idea of beautifying the ugly reality is an example Nietzsche uses...explaining something is absurd, so Nietzsche gives lots of examples...discovering man in a position of choice where his spiritous roaring fires consume anxiety.

  • i'm not so sure that nietzsche is advocating that the sufferer has got some extra value or what not in light of his suffering. -like a poor man praising his poverty as noble.

    though it's a lot more complex than saying suffering is only bad either. -like arguing over taxes is this example, but nietzsche is looking at the meaning of government and constitution of political truth - to make an analogy of sorts.

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