Friedrich Nietzsche, Lecture 2: Master & Slave Moralities

This video is about Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, with a more specific focus on Master Morality and Slave Morality. The video I'm mentioning about Virtue-Signaling is linked here:
• Virtue Signaling: An A...

[@oceanmachine1906]

These videos are some of the best on Nietzsche broken down I've seen so far on KZbin.

[@dayan5669]

mashallah brother so true

[@ryan_the_overlord]

“Your ‘virtue’ can easily be a mask for your deficiency and weakness” So interesting 💯

[@hsab5927]

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[@sammiller2617]

Gosh, I’m enjoying these! I came to your site through your ‘Heidegger is 12 mins’, (I’m a big MH fan and wanted to send a friend an intro to him and yours is excellent). I’m looking forward to exploring all your videos. Thank you for sharing them! Sam

[@darkthorn5645]

One of the best Neizche lectures

[@standauphin1592]

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[@bighairymeow9664]

You are truly wise. I enjoy your lectures!

[@timothymacdonnell9079]

These lectures are the best!

[@tyroy57]

Brilliant, thanks very much Eric.

[@TemoAdame]

Great video, thanks

[@thnxm8]

you're a very good teacher. Thank you

[@pendejo6466]

Ha ha...listen to you! Pretending ignorance to the first names of the titular Kardashian sisters: "What's her name...Ky-Kylie Kardashi--er no...Kylie, oh no, she has a different name...I don't know, you guys know this stuff..." You're up on all pop culture references!

[@EricDodsonLectures]

I guess that's what happens when you spend too much time nerding-out by reading the classics and playing video games. I'm pretty good with references to the Canterbury Tales, though.

[@tankalvin1444]

A real challenge to go against the slave morality, with somewhat instinctive senses of jealousness and resentment against others who seem to have it much better than you in many aspects at a certain point of time , and leave you feeling inferior. There is an anology to the lobster social hierarchy, with lowly ranked lobsters having lower serotonin. At least the day is not ruined by feeling smug about the virtuousness of not engaging in the folly of others and such restraint against living life fully without inhibitions.

[@shaunkerr8721]

Paris Hilton shows her wealth for all to see = master morality Person X shows their virtue for all to see = slave morality Could a master morality be someone who creates their own morality & throws it ppls faces bc they can? Why can flaunting wealth be the prerogative of a master yet flaunting virtue (virtue signaling) is the prerogative of a slave? Live your videos, BTW! Sense of humor, pace, information, & ability to hold my attention are all A+! Thank you for these.

[@XenosbioZ]

Great lecture, I don’t take off my virtue mask because ... I think I’ll get a sensory overload! (And get lost really quick in the sea of life.. another way of virtue masking, oops!). Also liked how you combined genealogy and the virtue masking in one lecture segment... Gives me the perfect excuse to just say that my family didn’t pass me the right genes when I feel that insufficiency! Lol

[@artofthepossible7329]

To quote Plato's Crito: "Crito, may we do evil? Surely, not Socrates. And what of doing evil in return for evil, which is the morality of the many-is that just or not? Not just."

[@khanthor7974]

3:30 The Ubermensch was quickly abandoned but It was quite consistent witn his other avatars like Dionysus and the whole of the nietzschean Ideology from the Birth of Tragedy onwards and even before: impolute radical egoísm & absolute contempt for any form of altruism or morality.

[@darrensleeth7295]

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and explanations of this adpect of nietzsches work. I would love to discuss this with you in respect of what is happening right now in modern organisations. Bob Marley sums up the zeitgeist of your last few mins in the line from redemption song’ emancipate yourself from mental slavery none but our selves can free our minds’. Do you think he was a student of nietzsche or was it innate curious observation?

[@gerben880]

i'd guess he probably observed it himself, perhaps with regards to Nelson Mandela who with his mental fortitude 'freed himself' from prison, but who knows

[@brutexrp7207]

The heroes of antiquity were versatile. Today's parallel might be almost labelled sociopathic.

[@freshbloodforliberty9569]

What you’re saying that he was saying about virtues is what took out of it myself, I don’t think that’s what he was saying though. He has too much material on pity for me to come to that conclusion. Not arguing, just spitballing, and I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed 🙂35:57 is 🔥 The mind is a cell.

[@ABRARKHANISM]

Nietzsche based these ideas off of the slaves from Antiquity, such as those from Egypt (Jews) and those from Rome (Christians). But I wonder if he would have a different perspective from studying the slave societies and cultures of other parts of the world. Such as the slaves of the Muslim empires of the Middle East, or of the African slaves in the pre-Civil War United States

[@madalynmoth4263]

It makes sense to me that a virtue can be a mask, but that exact same virtue can be a strength or a doorway to someone else. In terms of the example using priest vs. the warrior; a warrior could be a priest, if the priests mission is too share wisdom for the purpose of freeing peoples minds, it’s possible to be very cut-throat in teaching meditation love, patience as an effort to fight against the forces of greed & power which controls & brainwashes the less advantaged. AND a priest can be a priest as a mask because for instance they’re maybe afraid of confronting their life, their feelings, or instead of trying to understand they’re sexual or other selfish animal impulse, they might only be to burying their impulses, which is like you said a mask. A warrior in the sense of one who will hurt others for their own gain is actually less advanced as a human being & therefor “weaker” then the most elite. True evolvement is within, I think it is what we have inside of us that determines our value. It seems rare that people become powerful in politics(for example) by being the most honest, & since I consider lying to be destructive to ones own spirit & causes harm to others, I don’t find it subjective wether lying or greed(or the elite for example) is wicked. To say that slaves simply flip the morality upside down so the powerful ones repressing they poorer ones are seen as immoral is puzzling me, because it seems flat out that lying & greed & cruelty are immoral. If someone finds a way to love all living beings & is absent of any hate, may be possibly the one free from all masks, while different individual with shallower kind of mind may believe they are such and that could be a mask.

[@cathalkeenan8]

If virtues can be questioned as hidden masks and intentions, how can we establish true good? Excellence could be a product of obsession and sacrifice of other aspects of life. Even an act of kindness could be labelled a meek, dishonest act, which we wouldn't do if the receiver of kindness was a master or a morally superior man. Do you have to return to the adage "no truth, only interpretation of truth?". Maybe Nietzsche is trying to push us closer to the truth through the hermeneutic of suspicion, aware that there is no perfect interpretation?

[@sundayoghale4639]

Prof.

[@shaunkerr8721]

So James Bond would've been a hero in antiquity?

[@PWizz91]

You didn't need to start this so creepily

[@arterial]

Paris Hilton trust-fund baby, I would not equate in any universe with arete, Eric!

[@EricDodsonLectures]

Well, that's kind of the point... It's always incredibly tempting to put down people who are basically just doing whatever they want, and who don't feel particular bad about it, either. From the perspective of a slave morality, they naturally seem stupid, shallow, sinful, unvirtuous, etc. But from the perspective of a master morality, they're simply fulfilling their desires directly and forthrightly... probably just like we'd like to, if we could let ourselves be honest about it (which is not necessarily an easy thing).

[@PWizz91]

Well admittedly, I'd swap my life to be a trust fund baby right now with zero regret

[@JHimminy]

None of the videos in the Nietzsche series is titled “Nihilism…” Which seems to me to be his ultimate purpose, and a central theme in virtually everything he does.

[@yourgardengem]

Although I agree, many editors and scholars have discouraged labeling Nietzsche as a specific philosopher. Nietzsche even refers himself to be more of a psychologist and his inquiries always explain both sides of good and bad, even the in between, of a specific theory or ideal. In modern terms he’s considered a nihilist, but a lot of the times people who claim he’s a nihilist haven’t fully read his works.

[@babyborn87]

to abes hahaha...