J.P. Stern on Nietzsche: Section 1

Vehement repudiation of Christian and liberal ethics; the detestation of democratic ideals; the celebration of the "superman"; the death of God; and a life-affirming "will to power" are the philosophical legacies of Friedrich Nietzsche. In this program, Nietzsche philosopher J.P. Stern discusses these concepts as the genesis of existentialism, and as the root philosophies of fascist political movements.

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• Nietzsche
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• Existentialism

[tomblack2112]

I like their ties. They match the couch! Ya know I coulda been a Philosophizer, but it's all political and who ya know. I gots a lot of stuff to say. Like that line about their ties. Not bad huh? My ex-wife held me back too. I told my ex-wife I wanted to be like Neitzsche, but she's a real Kant.

[FaaarLeft]

I just finished Zarathustra, and let me say: "Holy Shit". Every page is a mind blowing account of the human species' phycological state. I cannot recommend it enough.

[HimmelsscheibeNebra]

@FaaarLeft

I read the book for the 5th time these days and must say that it won't be the last time, because I noticed that I missed a lot the times before. It is impossible to get all out of the book in one of two reads. It is so extremely dense and full of ideas and pictures, that it is lecture for years, if not for a whole life. All of Nietzsche's books are "holy shit" and mind blowing, in particular, if I read them the 2nd etc. time(s). I plan to buy an edition of this letters...

[Israe5l]

I seem to read Nietzsche against the grain always. I thought he was defending Christianity. The slave morality seem so enduring. The master morality seem so flat. But I guess its the "not" that I thought Nietzsche was going after. Anti-. or Nihilistic.

[dailypinoyshowbiz]

This is a very "yummy" video. =p

[madahad9]

@FaaarLeft I read Zarathustra at least once a year. It is the top of my favorite non fiction books. All his books are worth reading and rereading. Every time I read Zarathustra, Antichrist, Beyond Good and Evil, etc. I always see omething new. I am no scholar so I do not pretend to understand everything, but I think that what brings me back to the books again and again and they yield more wisdom each time. Nietzsche should be taught in school.

[andmaketherain]

@bayreuth79 Tolstoy also thought that Shakespeare was "...that the unquestionable glory of a great genius which Shakespeare enjoys, and which compels writers of our time to imitate him and readers and spectators to discover in him non-existent merits,—thereby distorting their esthetic and ethical understanding,—is a great evil, as is every untruth."

[CommunistWarrior1917]

"Morality, insofar as it condemns for its own sake, and not out of regard for the concerns, considerations, and contrivances of life, is a specific error with which one ought to have no pity" - Nietzche

[bayreuth79]

I agree with Lev Tolstoy when he said "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal". Of course Nietzsche wasn't literally stupid (one only has to read the brilliance of his prose) but his philosophy is stupid and pernicious.

[maxistsocialist]

WOW, COOL, THE PHILOSOPHER OF THE SUPERMAN !! WE NEED A SUPERMAN TO SAVE USA !!

[IntoTheHeartOfMusic]

@ismokereefer "Élan vital", a french term coined by French Philosopher Henry Bergson, and it´s usually translated as "vital impetus" or "vital force."

[FredeGF]

2:07 i love that Magee hasn't got any shoes on - just chilling in the sofa