Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra | The Three Metamorphoses | Core Concepts

[@wanabevic]

So, on my interpretation. It seems like we first must have the ambition, persistence, and discipline to try. We must then have the mental sovereignty to defy blank obedience. And last we must have the wisdom to choose our own philosophies, one not based on order nor defiance but on choice, freedom, and insight.

[@GregoryBSadler]

That fits the schema

[@niculescuandrei-valentin7367]

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[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you find them useful

[@A_Salted_Fishe]

Sir, you are making a significant difference in my education. Thank you.

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome!

[@SanderIOSgaming]

Thank you so much for your work professor Sadler! Please do more Nietzsche videoes when you got the time for it.

[@GregoryBSadler]

I'll be rolling out a number of these on Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[@davidpiracini3118]

@@GregoryBSadler Thank you for that! I am currently reading it for the first time, and I am struggling to fully grasp a lot of it. I couldn't imagine a more useful tool than these videos.

[@GregoryBSadler]

@@davidpiracini3118 Glad it was useful for you!

[@SanderIOSgaming]

@@GregoryBSadler Looking forward to that!

[@jonathansebo5800]

This is TREMENDOUSLY helpful insight and I'm anxious to hear more. I drew the same kind of conclusions from my reading but I'm not a professor of philosophy... Listened to this twice today and it really helped me draw a roadmap in my mind of Nietzsche's masterpiece. Well-done, I can't overemphasize my appreciation.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad the video was useful for you!

[@missstcn]

I swear, after I finished reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra, I went straight to SparkNotes and also browsed videos to review it again, just to check if I missed some things I couldn't comprehend yet from the book. Found some new things! The level of comprehension for each reader for this philosophical work must be so different! Thank you for your explanations too Dr. Gregory!! I'm recently so hooked with philosophical books, I've never thought there were such bold texts written since long ago!! So bold, so rebellious, so truthful!! Are there other philosophical books you can recommend?

[@GregoryBSadler]

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[@ola_eboda]

It is most def a hard book to understand his prose is hard to understand

[@ThePsysard]

Thank you so much for this! 💐🎈 I recently finished the book and your video helped me to put pieces together.

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're very welcome!

[@lorenzoosterheim3983]

just finished my first reading of Thus Spoke Zarathustra today and was looking to see if you had any videos on the work, what luck

[@GregoryBSadler]

I'll have more coming out this week, and the next

[@boemanuel1273]

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[@kevinlynch8059]

Dr. Sadler you are saviing my life. My professor is awful but you make everything so understandable

[@GregoryBSadler]

Sorry to read about your professor, but glad the videos are helpful

[@MrMarktrumble]

Thank you. Good lecture. Adds a new twist to the "desert Fathers".

[@GregoryBSadler]

Indeed it does!

[@blankname5177]

Thank you Dr. Sadler!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome!

[@magikarpslapper759]

Holy SHIT! Thank you! I've been stuck in the Lion state for the past few years now, hostile towards all forms of authority, and wondering why it didnt feel like an end. I never really understood the Child part until now, but it's probably the most important. The Lion only knows how to destroy, and when it's done destroying toxic conditioning it starts eating away at the values we really care about. Thank you very much!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're very welcome - though the thanks should go to Nietzsche himself. I just explain his ideas

[@ikzo7927]

I enjoyed your video very much! In my opinion, Nietzsche's Zarathustra is definitely a book worthy of a section-by-section analysis in this way. Jung began a wonderful symbolic analysis on the work in his seminar, but sadly, due to the war he never got to book 4. Looking forward to more videos!

[@sleekostrich4367]

In which book does he do this/where can I find itv

[@naveengamini3445]

Wow.. such a difficult text simplified it so well. Thanks a lot ❤ . I just signed up to your channel immediately

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you found it useful

[@hayyydeen]

Was wondering when you would get to Zarathustra. Thank you, can't wait for more

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad to read it!

[@idoido9590]

Beautiful, thank you!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome!

[@Clicker3]

Very, very cool. Thanks for that

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome

[@9441658278]

very underated channel.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you enjoy it

[@LeeFerikson]

i read this passage just the other day

[@GregoryBSadler]

Cool!

[@jmiogo]

Excellent lecture. Thank you!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome!

[@Greg400]

Thanks Dr. Sadler, I wasn't able to get to the thrust of this concept on my own, you're video was very useful!

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad to read it!

[@Greg400]

@@GregoryBSadler Dr. Salder, I'm reading Walter Kaufmann's translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In Part II: On Self-Overcoming in which Nietzsche speaks a lot of his Will to Power concept, Kaufmann says this it is the high point or climax of Part II but it raises a lot of difficulties philosophically. Do you have any idea what Kaufmann thought the philosophical difficulties may have been? If you have the time I'd love to hear your insight, thank you kindly!

[@GregoryBSadler]

@@Greg400 No idea. It's been years since I've read Kaufmann. I spend very little time on secondary lit these days

[@Greg400]

@@GregoryBSadler I understand, thank you for getting back to me!

[@SARVESH0041996]

Explained very well! Love from india 😃

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you found it useful

[@tituslivius2084]

Enjoyed that

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad to read it

[@umairghouri7122]

This is really good Sir. The way you explained the concept is great. I have an exam and the whole book I was to read now only your lectures I will be watching. Also the 200th like person

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad it was useful for you!

[@ericivy9979]

I've been waiting for this for a long, long time. Thanks. Any chance you would ever do the same thing for Being and Time?

[@GregoryBSadler]

I have shot core concept videos on Being and Time

[@stino9635]

Love your work

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks!

[@tombraddy3770]

These are extremely useful love from India :)

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad the videos are useful for you

[@agorawindowcleaningllc451]

Thanks for all your videos on Nietzsche. Just decided to read him a few weeks ago and your videos have been a light to understand some of his dark, sometimes cryptic writing style. As a philosopher, do you have any particular philosopher that you are partial to? Currently, I tend to follow the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas But I am just now wanting to learn other ideas.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Well, following the philosophy of Aquinas in a way faithful to his own thought means engaging with and integrating Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Augustine, Cassian, Boethius, and a slew of others.

[@ulicesvilla6995]

I'd pay money to hear a profound discussion between you and Jordan Peterson on Nietzsche and other well known thinkers.

[@GregoryBSadler]

not a fan of Peterson myself, unfortunately

[@GregoryBSadler]

@@frankie6655 Both and more

[@unknowninfinium4353]

@@GregoryBSadler By Both Dr, You mean Peterson and Nietzche? Thank you tremendously for your videos.

[@GregoryBSadler]

@@unknowninfinium4353 Read the comment closely. It's clearly addressed to someone who deleted theirs

[@StevenSmith-mj2sc]

Great video, currently reading the book and need some help translating some of the meaning. Thank you. Badda Bing

[@GregoryBSadler]

Badda boom

[@unknowninfinium4353]

Dr. Sadler, I know you get asked this a lot but which Philosopher you follow?

[@GregoryBSadler]

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[@forgetaboutme6265]

Personally, I don't think the child is the end of the metamorphoses mainly because of what Zarathustra said in The Ass Festival. To be sure: except you become as little children you shall not enter into that kingdom of heaven." (And Zarathustra pointed aloft with his hands.) "But we do not at all want to enter into the kingdom of heaven: we have become men, - so we want the kingdom of earth." Can you elaborate on what it means transforming from child to men.

[@GregoryBSadler]

It's the end of the metamorphoses in that chapter

[@budsyremo]

There is a Cambridge version of this spoke Zarathustra. Should we read that to understand that ?

[@GregoryBSadler]

You can read whatever version you want

[@tituslivius2084]

What translation are you using?

[@GregoryBSadler]

What does the video description tell you?

[@franceslawless4903]

Am I getting this, I visualised the camel as wanting or having to please and carry all. The lion refuses to carry any or please anyone or thing. And the dragon is the vector of all things possible. The child is free will. I wanted to explore metamorphoses as every interaction in my life leaves behind a residue and after a while the residue I carry, like the camel stops me from recognising my own self image. My lion is very tired and my child not yet found so am looking on how to find yes.

[@GregoryBSadler]

The dragon is not all things possible, but rather imperatives, norms. The camel not only wants to take on burdens, but also chooses to do so. The lion revolts against the imperatives and burdens

[@raymonddonahue7282]

nice way to put this. can be confusing,

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad it was useful for you

[@aishwaryan912]

Why was he called the "pied cow"?

[@GregoryBSadler]

He wasn't. Read more attentively

[@MichaelJimenez416]

Gorgeous

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks!

[@duanezbranek4014]

I dig your videos. Great endeavor here. Your intro throws it off though. Get your dues but maybe shorter or after.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Duane Zbranek Nah. I’m good. And so are you if you exercise a bit of patience