Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Values and Valuation | Core Concepts

[@jonathansebo5800]

I'm a member of the Institute of General Semantics and your videos are a testament to the potency of instructive language use. I find them very useful and have remarked so on other videos of yours. You say it yourself in your introduction... Then you deliver on what you say in your videos. It's my hope to see your videos popularized because this is an essential skill for us to develop... The ability to state things in such a way any English speaker can deeply understand. Thanks for making the fruits of philosophy within reach of anybody who happens by, I learn a great deal from your videos and share them.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad that you enjoy them. I was into some of the general semantics stuff back in grad school, particularly Hayakawa's works. First time actually interacting with someone from the institute (which first got on my radar as a kid, reading Van Vogt!)

[@Mx25a]

Reading Nietzsche's Zarathustra with you, Prof. Sadler. Thank you so much for this opportunity!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome!

[@thesoundpurist]

Good sense of humor and great info. Very appreciated

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@spacecat3034]

Thank you for producing these videos Dr. Sadler. I stumbled upon your channel some time ago and am thoroughly hooked. Keep up the amazing work. Big fan!

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad they're helpful for you

[@BakersDelightSam]

At around the 5:35 mark, I always took that to mean that Peoples at first (family tribe) only later Individuals (Jesus, Socrates, Mohammad, George Washington etc.) now the individual himself (Me) are the creators of values. We did take the values from our ancestors and now we have and take the ability to make our own. These are great video explanations Dr. Saddler, so easy to follow, thanks.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad it was useful for you!

[@hayyydeen]

Ah, if only you had the time to walk through the whole book like this

[@GregoryBSadler]

Perhaps someday

[@3881delta1]

Great job! Thank you a lot for these. I hope you will get around to Manly Prudence at some point. That's a confusing one.

[@Retrogamer71]

2:02 Do you have or plan to cover Nietzsche's conception of valuation in "Genealogy of Morals", Dr. Sadler?

[@GregoryBSadler]

When I find the time, I';ll do core concepts on it. For now, there's the class lecture videos on it

[@Retrogamer71]

Oh fantastic, you've already produced a lecture on 'valuation' in a piece on Genealogy of Morals.

[@unionboilercompany3738]

Hello Wonder if you can clear something up for me In thus spoke zarathustra The tightrope walker Did he fall or did he jump. I ask this because in the story he throws his pole and fell faster then it. If he throws the pole first the pole should hit the ground before him. That's been bugging me Thx for the great vids

[@GregoryBSadler]

Unless he throws the pole up or sideways. Kee you eyes on the prize

[@unionboilercompany3738]

Omg Never entered my mind Up or side ways thanks

[@markgordon2660]

What the guy said your work awesome 5✨

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks!

[@jdsword5943]

Are there meaningful differences in values between cultures? It didn't seem like Nietzsche made a strong argument in favor of that, he doesn't really care to persuade the reader that this is the case, but especially in our Late Modern era of humanism and Liberalism even scientists argue that it is a misconception that different people value things differently. We're all one race, the human race, and that peacenik narrative fits nicely with the agenda of treating the whole world like one big market- everybody loves the same things, consumes the same things, votes the same way. Of course people want democracy, of course people want women's rights. But do they though?

[@GregoryBSadler]

I wouldn't call what's going on in the discourses in TSZ primarily "providing argument"

[@jdsword5943]

Gregory B. Sadler No, Nietzsche tends to be rather polemical. But do you believe he is justified in speaking of each people as having their own unique table of values?

[@GregoryBSadler]

@@jdsword5943 If you mean "distinctive" by "unique", sure