Introduction to Nietzsche: lesson 1/8

Got to Teachmyself.org for more free video lessons. This is an 8 part lesson into the 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Including 4 short lessons from myself, 2 documentaries originally made for TV, one exert from the stand up of Ricky Gervais and another from Tony Robbins.
After studying the course the student should know more about Nietzsche's life, his place in history and should have thought about some of the central questions raised by Nietzsche's ethics

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[adenowa3232]

You really should have created a link to vid 2.

[mgcazper0]

Really irks me when people say, 'but he was mad; how can we believe a mad man.' Read the man's ideas and decide for yourself. If they seem plausible, then good. Biographical material doesn't matter.

[CrucifiedDionysus]

@walruspower60 indeed



[CrucifiedDionysus]

@bombadii I don't really see him as a nihilist... he often vehemently opposes nihilism... in his eyes, Christianity was nihilist as it created a situation in which the highest values devalue themselves. I also do not buy into the whole we are "moral" out of some evolutionary instinct... in this sense, we are non-reflexively using science to justify our non-scientific modes of thought... we also seem to forget that science itself rises out of and also contributes to a social context.

[CrucifiedDionysus]

@mgcazper0 people who see his later and sudden madness as a valid reason to negate his philosophy clearly need to read some Foucault. They question his validity by blindly accepting psychology as "Truth"... we haven't even proven that "mad" is "mad"... its all just a social convention.

[n0t5ur3]

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'

'Bout the raising of the wrist.

SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...

[BxoxbxbxyxBxoxy]

i think the fact he could formulate such drastic views is what drove him to madness.. when you're alone in your mind from anyone in the world it can be a lonely place

[bombadii]

In term of nihilism, and I am speaking in a scientific sence as well as a philosophical sense, the basic ideas of "good" and "evils" come from "moral" and "immoral", which are products of instinct and not of thought. In an evolutionary sense, we are only "moral" as to help our species so if does not become extinct. Of cause Nietzsche did not know this, but he said, "The Christian resolution of making the world look ugly and bad had made the world ugly and bad." He sounds like a nihilist to me.

[walruspower60]

We should all read Nietzsche. This guy is just giving his own interpritation on the work.

[therugstopography]

Thank you for this.

[ana0banana]

OF COURSE WE SHOULD TAKE NOTICE OF MAD PEOPLE. LIKE, HELLO! I'm not sure if Jesus existed AT ALL, but if he did I'm sure he was MENTAL.

[utpsu]

Don't watch these videos. A litmus test for whether or not a person should talk about Nietzsche: If they say "Nietzsche says there is a good and evil, it's just the reverse of what Christianity tells us good and evil is" then you should immediately stop listening. He doesn't talk about master/slave morality, ressentiment, perspectivism, eternal recurrence. He does talk about the Overman, but is utterly wrong in what he says. If serious about understanding Nietzsche - plato . stanford . edu