How Nietzsche Took on the World

[@WeltgeistYT]

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[@petr6936]

Even though I prefer your older titles you taught me more about Nietzsche than anyone else. I understand that you have to do this for the algorithm so make that bag bro and thanks for all the content.

[@gregoryglavinovich9259]

what do you mean by thumbnail

[@moum23]

I love how Nietzsche crushes on life. He might have enjoyed the company of the Japanese Buddhist monk Nichiren according to who: "Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryō of gold."

[@samuelwilliams4155]

Then the monk goes to work 9-5

[@Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus]

@@samuelwilliams4155 if you are not saying this in a joking way, then idk what u mean

[@samuelwilliams4155]

@@Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus is a joke brudda

[@thatchinaboi1]

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[@thatchinaboi1]

In that case you fell for Nietzsche's trick. He simply wants to be heard and for people to agree with him while criticizing famous thinkers of the past and present. And to do that he clearly uses people's biases towards an unexamined optimistic way of life that pretends all the difficulties and pain that accompanies life can be eliminated by simply adhering to a "light-footedness". What a charlatan. Only gullible fools fall for it.

[@ishankashyap3350]

Reminds me of the three vinegar tasters from China. One when tasting the vinegar of life said it is bitter. The second tasted it and said it is sour. The third tasted it and smiled, be cause he found it sweet. The first is the Buddha, the second Confucius and the third Lao Tzu.

[@jmiller1918]

I'm always a bit surprised when someone says that Nietzsche is too deep for them...I just heard a living philosopher say he "could never penetrate Nietzsche" on a YT video a few days ago. Well, here's a neat little video with a crystal clear look at an essential aspect of Nietzsche, and it takes all of seven minutes to watch. No more excuses. I am hoping Weltgeist will eventually do a series on Heidegger, who I have not gotten round to yet.

[@troycambo]

He was a simpleton with beautiful prose. His ideas were basic bitch but he dressed them up in needless obfuscation.

[@unknowninfinium4353]

@@troycambo You mean Hied?

[@emill9540]

Ah, Zizek... Yeah. I think he also referred to the fact that he doesn't like them (the philosophers he aimed it at).

[@joejohnson6327]

@@emill9540 I could never penetrate Zizek. In any sense of the word. 😄

[@zarathustraxerxes6802]

us who have been going through psychological rebirth and have found videos such as this appreciate you passing along Nietzsche to the mainstream, able for us to find

[@Fried_Rice-]

I started reading Twilight of idols and you have done a great job helping me understand it.

[@alecmisra4964]

The premise is wrong. Many philosophers of the ancient world are life affirming because they offer solutions or alternative positions to deal with the problems that are intrinsic to life. Nietzsche himself offers amor fati, which is a form of stoicism.

[@peterpehlivan157]

The biggest use of Nietzsche for my thinking has been to be more skeptical and humble towards my status in life and intellectualism itself. I think he is wrong in saying the will to power stands behind truth, because I don't think a truthful decadent man can be described as being wrong by definition. But it has humbled my view of many things that are my own. I enjoy truth and philosophy, not because those things are good in themselves, but because they are good and enjoyable for me (and some others). He's also helped me in thinking about whether my view of the world is really correct, or if it is just an expression of resentment. The rest of Nietzsche isn't of as much use, in my view. I think he often fetishizes suffering too much.

[@lanehdh8864]

Wow someone who watched the video/others/read and actually digested some of that information. Hats off to you my friend,

[@peterpehlivan157]

@@lanehdh8864 Thanks :3

[@juliusevolvere6835]

@@peterpehlivan157 is he fetishizing suffering or what will be the result of overcoming said suffering? Suffering minus a reason/goal is just pointless suffering. It’s the difference between hitting your legs with a hammer vs climbing a steep mountain. Both provide sore legs.

[@joejohnson6327]

Some of the stuff he wrote is brilliant, much of it is woefully overrated.

[@peterpehlivan157]

@@juliusevolvere6835 I'd say that under the latter vision of Nietzsche you mention, he's still fetishizing suffering. With Nietzsche, I think all suffering is seen as providing some kind of improvement or good result, which in my view is not a helpful way of looking at suffering. I'd agree meaning and strong optimism are an important buffer to suffering, likely even all kinds of suffering in some cases, but I think Nietzsche isn't very successful at providing a framework for these things. I'd say he's talking too directly about suffering and a nebulous Übermensch vision for his framework to serve as a good buffer. I should point out this is only my opinion that I've formed over time.

[@lexerium7892]

A mustache you can sweep the floor with. You can always count on Nietzsche.

[@josephsanchez5697]

“ It’s more important to be healthy then to be right “

[@satnamo]

It is better to be strong and powerful Than to be right because even the wisest men cannot see all ends.

[@josephsanchez5697]

@@satnamo I love the emphasis he puts on the body, you have to be in tuned with your body with what you eat how you feel and how you treat yourself, ever since I started calisthenics I’ve changed forever! “A healthy mind can only dwell in a healthy body”

[@rafaellontra2189]

@@satnamo Better for who? a strong person can use their strength for their own and maybe his family's benefit, but a wise man can benefit generations of people.

[@wordcel]

@@rafaellontra2189 Strength and wisdom are not mutually exclusive.

[@troycambo]

Nietzsche was obsessed with health because he was a weak flaccid virgin. He died as a raving lunatic and was always plagued with health issues. That doesn’t discount his philosophy but it gives insight into why he dreamed of powerful men as the ultimate of humanity.

[@relaxbro5605]

Does Nietzsche not elaborate on Morality? Because if he doesn't that explains a lot. You could argue that the stance of seeing life as suffering stems from the emergence of morality. Without morality, there is no necessity to come to the conclusion of life being suffering or man bad.

[@Nothing_to_see_here_27.]

He destroyed Morality in "Human, too human".

[@rafaellontra2189]

Do people realy think some philosophers knew more than spiritual sages of old (e.g. Bhudda)? Nietzsche was simply an "intelectual celebrity" and his trendy ideas will be forgotten soon enough, however Truth is eternal. Morality is nothing more than seeing the consequences of one's actions and if they are harmful you refrain from it. "there is fruit and ripening of deeds well done or ill done: what one does matters and has an effect on one’s future" Life is suffering, not because of morality but because every living being is constantly suffering.

[@troycambo]

Nietzsche was a weak virgin who died locked in a mental hospital. His philosophy was wish fulfillment writ large. He appeals to other weak people because reading about aspirational role models is a familiar high school boy pastime and rebelling against the status quo is what every powerless being in society wishes they could do.

[@MrCrosby.s_lunch]

​@@rafaellontra2189 that is a strong assumption, but I don't think it is correct. Life is not strictly suffering unless one chooses to see it that way. Morality is not even absolute since it changed remarkably between ages and civilizations

[@OuterHeaven210]

Heck yeah! Keep the videos coming!

[@tenaciousrodent6251]

Nietzsche's opinion on the Apollo program is something i would have liked to hear. I think he would have loved it.

[@frankchilds9848]

Thanks again for an inspiring video! I can't avoid feeling decadent in a Buddhist sense...Nietsche called it beautiful decadence, at least. So in my own unnoticed way, I aspire to sometimes be an ecstatic decadent via meditation.

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

What you have written presupposes freedom of volition. ☝🏼 However, it is a demonstrable scientific fact that EVERY thought, action, and motion which has occurred in the phenomenal universe was entirely determined by every preceding action, all the way back to the “Big Bang” singularity event. 🤓

[@true5911]

@@ReverendDr.Thomas Cause and effect exists, therefore cause and effect doesn't exist. Very big brain, bro lol

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

@@true5911 Kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️

[@intellectual421]

@@ReverendDr.Thomas are you a troll but i don not care. What i care for this world consumed by suffering is the onlt world we have so that is . Determinism is a lie. Chaos is the answer

[@unfit7841]

@@ReverendDr.Thomas “demonstrable scientific fact”? umm not quite

[@jonathanwoodvincent]

Nietzsche also disagreed with Nietzsche

[@christopherhamilton3621]

This one was fun, even the cynical, self-indulgent, Nietzschean jab at the end. Bravo! Encapsulates/explicates my ideas on FN pretty well. Thanks.

[@MrClaycorn]

Weltgeist do you lean more towards nietschze or Schopenhauer’s philosophy

[@gp365y]

Insightful video. A Herculean task by Nietzsche. Anyone know the painting at 0.17?

[@konstantinoskoutsandreas4135]

File:William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - The Youth of Bacchus (1884)

[@gp365y]

​@@konstantinoskoutsandreas4135 Thank you so much

[@haisolungdisuang2069]

This channel deserves 100000000000999 subscribers

[@satnamo]

A strong person is good, noble and impressive; He must require strength because otherwise he will never attain power. Power to him who power exerts. He who loves what he does wears himself out doing congfu

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

Good and bad are RELATIVE. 😉

[@lanehdh8864]

@@ReverendDr.Thomas right, bit power isn't, for the most part I mean, generally speaking "good" qualities will bring up favorable people, and thus more powerful people. If that had to do with having money, influence, understanding of ideas or whatever the point stands that it is a point to power,, imo at least

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

@@lanehdh8864, you mean that power is ABSOLUTE?

[@mosmaiorvm8502]

Do you plan on doing a series on The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra anytime soon?

[@TheAyatollahofNofappollah]

Awesome!

[@kabuti2839]

True, you can only go so far by thought/philosophy. What he is suggesting equals what the Zen practitioners found. Real 'experience' of life has zero to do with "logic". Only the Very Few understand this.

[@ayushpant8290]

I enjoy your videos quite a lot. Love from India!

[@Lazabaza7752]

Thank you

[@gregoryglavinovich9259]

what do you mean by thumbnail

[@stephenpowstinger733]

Just when you think you understand N he says something that upsets you. What did N think of Marx?

[@paulheinrichdietrich9518]

He never read Marx as far as we know.

[@Yonkipog]

He would not like marx at all for putting no effort on human pyschology in in his manisfesto

[@gilbertozambrano6182]

I love it. What a gigachad

[@simplekillzz390]

Does that mean that Nietzsche thinks truth (should) serve(s) life?

[@kendrickjahn1261]

Nietzsche in a nutshell--life is good, man...even suffering. Just don't think so hard about it and overcome it.

[@teoteo3522]

Thinking is gay

[@kendrickjahn1261]

@@teoteo3522 Haha. You must be an AxCx fan! RIP Seth Putnam!

[@jackmabel6067]

"Nietzsche in a nutshell--life is good, man...even suffering." Do yourself a favor and do NOT read any of his letters to his friends. He hated his own suffering immensely, and was always quick to whine about it.

[@kendrickjahn1261]

@@jackmabel6067 I was being facetious. I know it can be hard to tell that in words someone has written, since tone doesn't show. Schopenhauer is more my style and was more correct in his assessment of life than Nietzsche, in my opinion. The irony also about Nietzsche whining to his friends about his own suffering is that he wished suffering upon his friends, as he had this strange idea that more suffering would help them.

[@wetalksports1128]

4:30 For us human beings most of the times it better to feel healthy then right. But Nietzsche got life unlike he said 5:40 It's the health more important then truth? So why even bother trying to share you so called "radical view of life" if that can harm him. You see that's why I believe nitzsche is the problem in our modern society we so focused on health that we miss the big picture the truth

[@falsereality5990]

A slight jump but I've wondered a lot about the Christian attitude on not deserving the greatness God gives them. Not sure if that's from the bible or just some churches but if they accept that they sin because it's impossible not to then why do they put themselves down for it in such a way?

[@samuelwilliams4155]

Self flagilating weirdos bro, that's the honest answer.

[@falsereality5990]

@@samuelwilliams4155 lol fairs

[@benjaminburns6336]

I think it is a mistake to say that the world agrees with the so-called "census sapientum." Many barely pay lip service to the idea of a "Hinterwelt," let alone actually let it direct their day to day lives. I would assert that most average people, and even quite a slice of the "intelligentsia", favor happiness over being correct. How often do we see people willing to "go along to get along"? Or even when fighting for the notion that they are correct, when are they doing so out of a sincere desire for truth, as opposed to a mere attempt to maintain their ego? Most individuals from the lowest to the highest seem to me to be regularly in the business of ensuring their own egos remain flattered, and of flattering the egos of others both to receive flattering in return or else enjoy a smooth, pleasant life, free of the "sharp edges" of confrontation and disagreement.

[@samuelwilliams4155]

Yeah man tell me about those OTHER PEOPLE, I'm not like them either, AT ALL. Not ego stroking here, no sir.

[@Ieueseuei]

There are others “82. If thou perfectly remember these Heads, thou canst not forget those things which in more words I have largely expounded unto thee; for these are the contents or Abridgment of them. 83. Avoid all conversation with the multitude or common people; for I would not have thee subject to Envy, much less to be ridiculous unto the many. 84. For the like always takes to itself that which is like, but the unlike never agrees with the unlike. Such discourses as these have very few Auditors, and peradventure very few will have, but they have something peculiar unto themselves. 85. They do rather sharpen and whet evil men to their maliciousness; therefore, it behoveth to avoid the multitude, and take heed of them as not understanding the virtue and power of the things that are said. 86. How does thou mean, O Father? 87. This O Son: the whole nature and Composition of those living things called Men, is very prone to Maliciousness, and is very familiar, and as it were nourished with it, and therefore is delighted with it; now this wight, if it shall come to learn or know that the world was once made, and all things are done according to Providence or Necessity, Destiny or Fate, bearing rule over all, will he not be much worse than himself, despising the whole, because it was made? And if he may lay the cause of Evil upon Fate or Destiny, he will never abstain from any evil work. 88. Wherefore we must look warily to such kind of people, that being in ignorance they may be less evil for fear of that which is hidden and kept secret.”

[@franciskm4144]

Why Nietzsche didn't marry? His fear! Or He could not enjoy sex and life. And accusing that philosophers are the reason. Socrates enjoyed sex , Plato enjoyed sex, Aristotle enjoyed sex, we all Christians are enjoying sex and having Life and having sex and children and grandchildren 🙄🙄🙄

[@jackmabel6067]

He asked two women to marry him. Both turned him down flat.

[@kjell1628]

Are you Flemish? Of heb ik 't mis? :)

[@animant8811]

He's Nietzschean

[@satnamo]

@@animant8811 he is a god in ruins

[@LSDMTHC]

93

[@giftenjoyer3664]

Christians ought to love the glorious gifts of God and the joy of life. Jesus Christ is the king of the universe.

[@joejohnson6327]

Megalomaniac. 🥳

[@chiefstepinshit4243]

Yolo

[@lucioh1575]

Sounds like Nietzsche just assumed life was good. "It's more important to be healthy than to be correct." That on its own should discredit him as a philosopher.

[@MrSolus-ls6us]

Life, IS good, that is an objective fact. It’s our society that is horrible. Life=\=Society

[@wordcel]

POV: you are infected

[@teoteo3522]

@@wordcel So true! All these nerds squirm when they hear the wise words of Nietzsche!

[@troycambo]

He’s the poster child for weak nerds cos he rebelled against the status quo and called out Christianity. But he died a lunatic virgin so maybe there is a g..0..d

[@rafaellontra2189]

If you think Nietzsche is wise, well "you shall know them by their fruits". He influenced some of the worst people in the world (i.e. social darwinists, moral relativists, literal psychopaths plus Nazism would not have existed without his philosophy which is pure cancer in the minds of men). Recognize the world for what it is, a prison planet. Being healthy makes no difference for seeing the world for what it is with objective eyes. If you're healthy and strong in this life enjoy it while it lasts, but your cancerous deeds fueled by Will to Power may outlive your current life and come back to haunt you in the next.

[@MrSolus-ls6us]

National Socialism, isn’t a cancer, Communism is. National Socialism is the only one that stood against Communism, since Capitalism funded the Bolshevik Revolution.

[@rafaellontra2189]

@@MrSolus-ls6us I said Nietzsche's philosophy is a cancer. National Socialism was heavily influenced by it. The main problem I see in National Socialism is the hope in political solutions. You can not solve the current situation by giving power to politicians, only by removing power from them and removing central banking.

[@samg.5165]

You're completely wrong. And besides, Nietzsche's philosophy didn't influence Nazism, it was appropriated by it. It was Nietzsche's sister who tortured his writings after his death so that they would reflect Nazi ideology, even though the original texts were in clear opposition to many of its core tenets (chief of which was antisemitism).

[@rafaellontra2189]

@@samg.5165 There's definitely a lot of truth in his writings but there are also "seeds of corruption" - those ideas that leads to terrible consequences when acted upon in the real world, because they are rooted in falsehood. Whatever is True in his writings will remain, but let the falsehood go away.

[@teoteo3522]

@@MrSolus-ls6us Don't argue with peasants!

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

there is a fine Englishman named Andrew Tate I believe he is the true manifestation of nietzsche’s philosophy practiced in real life he may have not read him but he talks about the same thing and lives it dare I say it he has become the ubermensch he is not weak he is strong

[@MrSolus-ls6us]

Nietzsche was extremely based. Maybe that’s why National Socialism is partly based off his philosophy

[@ky-fe5qc]

Woah! It's almost like the national socialist belief system actually has alot of merit to it!

[@MrSolus-ls6us]

Nooooo that can’t be! It’s anti Semitic so it must be evil! You can’t say anything bad about the chosen people of God, even though they control and created Capitalism and Communism!

[@annibhardwaj6914]

NO man, It is actually ANTITHESIS of his philosophy

[@csabas.6342]

Right-wing extremists have certain things in common with Nietzsche. Mostly the adoration of the will, the idea that the strong shall rule over the weak and build a great civilization, the dislike of judaism (as a religion), the warlike spirit etc. etc. However there were many unsolveable opposition between Nietzsche and these groups, especially with the Nazis. You see Nietzsche did not really like nationalism and its herd-like ethnical/national solidarity. He would have definitely hated this weird race-cult religion of the National Socialists. Nietzsche was also a radical aristocrat (by aristocracy I mean the higher types of humans rather than the historical nobility) - he would absolutely despise how the Nazist wanted to please the lower middle class, the small citizens. Also he liked jewish people, despite hating the religion, (contrary to germans, whom he considered boring and dull) he would easily identify the antisemitism of the national socialists as ressentiment. I could go on and on about this. So basicly its not necessarily wrong to understand Nietzsche as a right-wing revolutionary (in very VERY vague sense). Right-wing due to his insistence on rank and hierarchy and antiegalitarianism, revolutionary because he wanted to tore down the old world order. But in the end he didnt have too much concrete political ideas; those he had are more fitting to the more intellectual part of the new right (like Alain de Benoist), and much less fitting or even hostile (however no completly) to the Nazis and even italian fascists.

[@MrSolus-ls6us]

@@annibhardwaj6914 It is not