Dr. Darren Staloff, Nietzsche's Perspectivalism and Critique of Philosophy

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[@voyagersa22]

I’ve learned more about ideas and history and frankly, life, from these professors in the last few years than in the 40 years before 🤷🏻‍♂️☝🏼🙏🏼 thanks dr Sugrue / Dr Stallof/ Genevieve

[@jlwcarroll]

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[@20FreeWill]

This channel is helping my long drives at work. Appreciate it . A freelance epistemologist

[@surajupadhyay144]

Freelance epistemologist?? What's that? What do you actually do?

[@Jahmilli]

@@surajupadhyay144 he works at McDonalds

[@ttacking_you]

@@surajupadhyay144 you're right, lexicographically speaking, free - lane implies a type of employment . Really he meant to say polyontologist

[@allforthewinner]

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[@accordionthief]

Dr. Staloff and Dr. Sugrue, this is Beautiful work. Thank you so much

[@dialaskisel5929]

A truly wonderful lecture. Nietzche always tends to inspire strong emotions in me (positive and negative) without anything in-between. A truly great writer.

[@sajidahmed4332]

One of the best lectures on Nietzsche i have seen.

[@enlightenedanalysis1071]

Excellent lecture. I learnt something I didn't know before about Nietzsche. The last 10 minutes were fantastic. Thank you Professor.

[@RevelatoryInsight]

Easily my favorite Staloff lecture so far, and top five among all those I've seen on this channel. Keep them coming!

[@CatnamedMittens]

His historical ones are fire too

[@javionblade21]

I agree this is my favorite of his lectures. Somehow, he made a lecture beautiful whilst valid, a product of his own desires, truly an Übermensch.

[@krakenmcbubble6275]

I've really been enjoying Dr. Staloff's lectures! Easily my second favorite speaker to appear regularly on your channel

[@RahulRana-ox7xj]

andrew garfield got good points here

[@deanmccrorie3461]

That joke is…amazing

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@@deanmccrorie3461 no you are, amazing

[@zoilo87]

Hahaha

[@faraday20]

😅

[@uscdave1124]

brilliant

[@DelandaBaudLacanian]

Dr. Sugrue reminding us that history is cyclic ages like a fine wine 🍷

[@cheri238]

Thank you, Dr. Darren Staloff.❤ I participate with joy listening to all of your lectures. What a gift this is allowing us to love philosophy! Undoubtedly, you bring light into our universal thoughts.❤

[@gyuehehe]

absolutely adored this talk . will definitely be coming back every now and again

[@Ma4shar]

Great talk. I would've listened for another hour.

[@SERGE_Tech]

man this is so awesome to see these lectures! thanks!!

[@cadamham]

Great lecture. Reminds of a Sunday sermon. Good story tellers will never go out of fashion

[@kimpachis8841]

He's really good at interpreting nietzaches ubermench, will to power and external recurrence as something more reasonable and sentimental

[@lorenzoojeda1680]

The fact that these lectures are free is absurd, in a good way! I have learned and found a deep appreciation for philosophy here, than the insides of my classroom! More power to both of you professors!!! P.S. If it’s not too much to ask, I hope both of you conduct more seminars, zoom meetings and what not in the future , with your audience! Once more, I send my regards and admirations all the way from the Philippines!

[@JurgenSawyer]

Thanks for adding more perspectives , now I might add more , this is best about neitzsche i have found yet 🙏🏼

[@ttacking_you]

Does anyone else blaze up to these ? usually I watch these things crossfaded

[@themos3s]

literally as I saw your comment I toked up, makes them more interesting lol

[@sangwaraumo]

Awesome lecture. Thank you for the effort in channeling Nietzsche. So insightful.

[@maxnul]

I’m so so happy about this channel; no words can express my excitement when a new uploads arrives

[@kahekiliyung6956]

another beautifully articulated lecture

[@howardpope3932]

I would never have thought that Frank Lemmer would made videos like this after he left highschool and that he would change his name to Darren Staloff.

[@holisticpsychologybyobrien]

Thank you, Dr. Darren Staloff, and thank you Dr. Michael Sugrue.

[@slushyslimshady]

There is something magical about academic environments; thanks for sharing!

[@sk-ui3vh]

Great lecture!

[@OsmoticRelease]

Excellent channel

[@abbyg3319]

one of my favorite lectures, very grateful

[@nemodassa6442]

Zalatan retired to come here, great lecture

[@shodan8221]

Dr. Staloff is a great speaker and absolutely rockin' that late-80s movie villain hair

[@ChillsWithSloths]

This was smart to release after the Shopenhauer lecture.

[@richardj.magoma7804]

Magnificent lectures.

[@ubet6691]

Wanting to help people doesn’t make you kind. Nietzsche says that true kindness emanates from nobility; it is ’active’, not reactive. It isn’t something you ’want’ to do for others in order to be considered kind, which is reactive.

[@nightoftheworld]

🔥 amazing lecture 👏

[@blackotaku9905]

I would have to watch all of his lectures now

[@ejazshaikh2863]

Hey can you make a playlist out of his videos please??

[@ferg]

Beautiful ❤️

[@pameti.dragoblago]

is it my imagination or does Dr. Darren sound just like Dr. Michael ???

[@robinsarchiz]

It’s uncanny. I imagine they had the same favourite professor as students in university, and every student in that class sounds exactly like this now.

[@gobupiter]

@@robinsarchiz It's no surprise that two men arriving at perfection show similiar qualities.

[@timangar9771]

Well their lecturing styles are similar, but their opinions are, as far as I have been able to tell, quite different. Dr. Sugrue is much less enamoured with Nietzsche, if I've been able to discern correctly.

[@gobupiter]

Well, Dr. Sugrue have stated that he used to be more fascinated with Nietzsche in his younger days. He also said that to understand Nietzsche is to go further than agreeing with all he says, and if you can argue with someone you treat him as equal, hence less admiration.

[@the_famous_reply_guy]

I heard the intro and for a second and thought"Rick Roderick!" the theme tune has given this guy some credit!

[@enlightenedanalysis1071]

Very interesting lecture. Thank you Dr. Stalloff and Dr. Sugrue.

[@bobbobbing4381]

Brilliant stuff. I always felt what N needed was a long and authentic hug from someone, possibly a lover who would stick around. I think he was a very lonely person excluded from social circles he really wanted to be a part of.

[@hasanunver2600]

That was a delicious lecture.

[@ryans3001]

Thank You!

[@caylynmillard76]

I love his style

[@yeyoreview5661]

Best Nietzche lecture EVER!!!

[@vincentmalloy8423]

cant wait to watch this. theres so much conflicting information about Nietzsche and perspectivism

[@Willbo_Swaggins97]

I came here to say "If Andrew Garfield became a philosopher instead of spiderman" but it appears I've been beaten to the punch XD

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I think i’ve finally found a gold mine within the internet.

[@MatiasSimonMusic]

This guy is an amazing speaker. A timeless lecture.

[@KingJorman]

I don't know how this kid is so brilliant, acting the part of a perspicacious professor, old beyond his years

[@cigsindoors]

yo dawg where is the genealogy lecture, has bro posted that one yet?

[@bordaz1]

Excellent lecture; it has clarified so much of the the Gay Science now that i've listened to it as an audiobook (even with many replays, much of the translation Ukemi uses is still opaque to me).

[@angelferreira1746]

A dog’s life, alpo 3x a day, I am just gonna end it all. Outstanding delivery.

[@freeyourmind4349]

Just fell in love all over again

[@excitedme530]

Really enjoyed this lecture by Annakin Skywalker

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Anakin gon gin

[@JH-le4sd]

Great thumbnail image

[@octopusjjsnook]

The video of lecture 1 is stuck on an advert for Doritos and won't play.

[@raymondsamo9808]

🙌

[@trondknudsen6689]

Which year was this lecture given in?

[@jacquiecotillard9699]

I love at 34:04 when Dr. Stalof turns into Lenny Bruce for 10 seconds

[@dwot4668]

Darren Staloff is the Garand Thumb of the intellectual realm

[@OnerousEthic]

32:00 Nietzsche: “Humans are the only animals that have grown to have a need for a purpose“.

[@OnerousEthic]

38:50 Dr. Darren: Nietzsche is feminine. 42:10 Final two Nietzschian aphorisms: Aphorism 240: The death of Socrates and Perspectivism The Ubermensche (Feminism trumps Masculinity)

[@tinfoilhatscholar]

It's not reasons that influence them, it's taste"

[@bilbaomadrid5040]

You can really see how Michael has influenced this man’s style in lecturing!

[@Lysanderfication]

Just read all the passages about the gregarious instinct, who are certainly decent and affable, yet harbor deep hatred and want to destroy both the ideal & exceptional type.

[@Natron0Zero]

this shit's good.

[@christinemartin63]

39:30 - Sounds like misogyny? sounds like?? Professor, you've spun this one around so much, we almost don't recognize the initial topic of the lecture 🙄.

[@dingosmith9932]

Anyone get the feeling that Dr Starloff liked to "rock out" in his spare time? 🎸

[@spectralvalkyrie]

26:54 it's not reasons that turn them against Christianity anymore; it's taste

[@thearchive9376]

"Richly rewarding", this was, indeed, rather 'is' !

[@cheri238]

✔️ ✅️

[@theneutralgroundpodcast]

As a Giants fan, I would indeed love to have Lawrence Taylor at my side over Gandhi in a fight.

[@eyob----7433]

43:43 - 46:06 ----Yes, I will take it anyway

[@charlesdutta1009]

3:44

[@shreddez]

11:45 Sounds like what I hear my teenager and people his age refer to as “NPC’s”

[@rockycomet4587]

You can't fault Wojak for being common. That's his purpose.

[@cinematiccrisis]

Superficial indeed. Staloff here straightens out a lot of edges ("he has nothing against morals"), gives absurd interpretations (Nietzsche taking the side of the feminine-weak type) and puts N. neatly in the framework of the neoliberal zeitgeist (just remember N.s insults against the English economic tradition). Still a good presentation and also useful to measure your own N.-interpretation against.

[@werther3974]

Jordan Peterson's child 😂

[@pearz420]

Socrates' last word was one of the greatest jokes in recorded history. He was a true millennial.

[@CountGrishnakh]

Professor Staloff sure was hot back in the day !

[@balancius8381]

Its all about a bigger player called DNA. WOU!

[@NietzschesWisdom]

Gay science is one of, if not my favorite Nietzsche work. great lecture!

[@TheJester-ct5pi]

Anakin Skywalker if he didn't challenge the high ground:

[@Diplomastronaut]

Glad he grills Kant

[@marcobrambilla2439]

Actors Philosophy Studio

[@stephenhogg6154]

This lecture holds that perspectivism supports the ‘falsifying’ hypothesis. This may be true for GS, but it is contradicted by the later Nietzsche.

[@blurredlenzpictures3251]

The good news about eternal recurrence is: I've already been Superman, so now I don't have to do anything it will just happen on its own.

[@ads0504]

Great lecture but why is the quality so bad?

[@dungtu3230]

probably because it was recorded decades ago?

[@ads0504]

@@dungtu3230 Then why are they being uploaded live? is it just a rebroadcasting of the lectures put on youtube live?

[@DawsonSWilliams]

Totally, bro. Where’s the 4K!?

[@rockycomet4587]

@@DawsonSWilliams Just take some LSD before you watch. Then it'll be 4d.

[@kaimarmalade9660]

Our village gives us a mask. Modernity gives us the ability to craft our own mask. Reality is the proving ground of whether we're really Batmen or not.

[@OnerousEthic]

Nietzsche wrote in German, did he not? So why do his poems rhyme in English? 23:50 (Request): The minds of others, I know well But who I am? ? I cannot tell My eye is much too close to me I am not what I saw and see It would be quite a benefit if only I could sometimes sit further away But my foes are, too distant, close friends, still too far, Between my friends and me, the middle would do. My wish? You guess my riddle!

[@spectralvalkyrie]

17:56 we must take back the word Gay 😂

[@jamesbarlow6423]

"Nietzsche was a sydtematic thinker." Wrong. "A will to a system," he said, "is a lack of integrity." Spruge is a stageshow.

[@kristikullagin206]

Bro studied Nietzsche and turned into Darth Vader

[@patrickkilroy6512]

It's frustrating to hear Nietzsche's views on relativism and the correspondence theory of Truth. He claims to use neither yet seems to use each of them when it suits him in "Perspectivalism". He claims that truth is all a matter of interpretation. That's relativism. But then says that there are perspectives that are more useful and better for you (Prof. Staloff gives the example of trying to jump off the podium and fly away, saying you'd hurt yourself in the process), but any basis on which you might judge the consequences of a belief system and therefore its usefulness to you .... would be implicitly assuming a correspondence theory of truth. If Nietzsche were at all consistent he would commit to the implications of his relativism and admit that any perspective is as good as any other. Or, that there may be a better or worse perspective, we just have no way of knowing which is which. But of course Nietzsche prides himself on being contradictory and nonsensical because this is "provocative" and "creative". It's easy to see why he has been labelled as a proto-Postmodernist: he claims to eschew metaphysics yet engages in one. He asserts relativism yet engages in special pleading for his own interpretation. But then pulls a Derrida and says that anyone claiming to be a follower of his doesn't really understand him. I know a handful of would-be Nietzscheans and this is precisely the nonsense that frustrates me when dealing with them. It's a worldview that gives license to intellectual selfishness. Pontification without caring if anyone else gets anything out of it. It doesn't just "create individuals", it makes society and the individual enemies in a zero-sum game. A concession to one becomes a tragic loss for the other. This is crazy. An unsustainable way to live and a tormenting way to think of one's self. Clearly we are all mixtures of ourselves and society, even if the ratio is different in each of us. Frankly this lecture just makes me think that Nietzsche's whole body of philosophy is just him inviting others to join him in madness, in a private consolation brought on by his depression. That's me looking at him literally instead of "from the scales of piety", as he entreats us to do with religion. And I begin to think he is not the least bit profound. And he himself, if consistent, would say "Yes, I am merely aesthetic, but you should prefer that". HIs reason for preferring aesthetic over substance? "Taste" and "being a gentleman". This doesn't mean a thing. It's just gainsaying the existing definition of these words. It's not an argument at all. But of course, the second you pin down a critique of any particular part of Nietzsche he or his followers will just point to another place in the text where he contradicts himself and claim this as evidence that he is not foolish where you think he is. He can never be wrong, because he isn't committed to saying anything in particular. I don't find that provocative as much as I find it stupid and pointless. As much as I appreciate Nietzsche countering Schopenhauer and Hegel and Kant and the Hindu desire for cosmic death, this can't be the final word on this stuff.

[@OnerousEthic]

Nietzsche’s “Statement Against Christianity” (26:20) is more of a statement of his own lack of theological depth. And I fear that Good Dr. Darren is out of his depth here as well: In my mind, the excoriation of Arius at the The First Council of Nicaea in 325 is more than adequate condemnation of the papacy, the Catholic Church, and the foundation of the western traditions built upon it. If young critics of Christianity are lacking a reason for depreciation of the “Christian” tradition, that should be their reason.

[@petersantospago1966]

How is reading German philosophy so intensly rewarding when you compare it to getting one's teeth drilled..."without anesthetic" ??? 😂😂

[@hisalexness8478]

It’s interesting that this lecturer mentions masks. I feel like he’s wearing a mask…he delivers his lecture in a way that doesn’t quite suit his character. I even think he imitates certain verbal characteristics of Dr Sugrue. Also…the mask slips when he mentions Indians who sit down and eat rice and old bald men! 😂

[@JB-ru4fr]

Nietzsche seems to trade others paradoxes with his own. Then while obscuring it in poettic writing. Eternal reoccurence, amor fati, superman, and gay science turns into another dogma like Kant’s, no? I am sure he realized they shake and can be knocked over as much as the others. Spiritualism just gets a new name. Maybe his attempt to embrace absurdity led to his demise.

[@anesu846]

Yes… I forgive you humanity, for not being as good as me 😜

[@Star-yz2rn]

I just do NOT SEE eye to eye with Nietzsche.

[@derwandschauer]

Mmh. In German it’s not gay , it’s just fröhlich, that means happy.

[@dr.michaelsugrue]

You are right

[@Philosophy.T]

Yeah and even in English it is translated as “The Joyous Science” in another version of translation.

[@raucousriley143]

I think he is just repeating walter Kaufman's comment about it. He says the same thing about it in his introduction to his own translation of the book.