Nietzsche is the most misunderstood and missinterpretated philosopher. He is the ultimate true boss of the most raw and real philosophy.
@wandersonmartins55977 ай бұрын
this
@jsamuel2517 ай бұрын
“Nietzsche is the most misunderstood philosopher” ~ Every other Redditer who hasn’t read Nietzsche / deflects when something they don’t like it said adjacent to Nietzsche
@darshanpatil77777 ай бұрын
@@jsamuel251 I am not a redditor and I have READ Nietzsche. Keep your personal biases out before making a flawed and senseless comment.
@axcel91286 ай бұрын
@@darshanpatil7777so how would he have been horrified by the things the Nazis did?
@Impaled_Onion-thatsmine6 ай бұрын
Well it's not a existential component of reality really annoying enough to get the neurotoxin effect on the personal in the past tense or attempt at a justified point directed at an attribute of action theories of continental signifiers that just don't care about the same time its really annoying enough he also kicked us out of the church which amplified the classification of sociological phenomenon within the structure of methodological nexus points
@NovaZero11 ай бұрын
When Nietzsche said "God is dead", he didn't mean it as a GOOD thing.
@meltingintoair758111 ай бұрын
That’s silly, of course he thought it was a good thing. It’s just man had to become so advanced now that it had an unbelievably daunting task in front of it. But this new path of apotheosis, becoming god rather than worshiping god, was inevitable. But no one wants to read Nietzsche in this way. Everyone worships an external god slavishly, waiting for someone to save them. Apotheosis is considered the most evil concept in our society. Never mind that we look up at its image in the Capitol rotunda.
@TheBuriedLedeR11 ай бұрын
@NovaZero I agree with that assessment of yours, but not necessarily for the reasons you espouse. Honest Question for you: "God is dead." Precisely. what was it Nietzsche communicated there?
@joshuawillingham636311 ай бұрын
@@meltingintoair7581Then you obviously haven't actually read the work. "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?" Paraphrasing some of the rest of the work, predicted that there would be a mountain of bodies as a result of God's death in the world because humans are incapable of coming up with our own transcendent value structure, and inevitably our flawed ideologies will result in oceans of blood. All one has to do is look at the philosophies and their resulting genocides of the 20th century to see he was right.
@seriousguy216011 ай бұрын
@@joshuawillingham6363Not all humans are incapable of creating their own values; the Übermenschen could.
@joshuawillingham636311 ай бұрын
@@seriousguy2160 The Ubermenschen is a theoretical construct. It doesn't exist in reality.
@michaelperazzetti661711 ай бұрын
We should also probably look into the fact that his sister did a lot to link Nietzsche's philosophy to the Nazis deliberately. She was also a Nazi. That cannot be coincidence and it probably would have annoyed him greatly.
@countbosnia8 ай бұрын
annoyed him is an understatement.. he would have hated it! I agree though, its crazy to think his own sister is responsible for the twisting of his words
@Domedwho7 ай бұрын
@@countbosniaAnd the propaganda that this video disseminates. Vids trying to link nazis to socialism and communism lol
@user-ug1qy3dq9w7 ай бұрын
This is what I was gonna say 👍
@morathi99564 ай бұрын
@@Domedwhowell while the were not communists they were socialist…
@gamingforever91212 ай бұрын
@@DomedwhoI mean they are the same, only difference is communism uses class and Nazism uses race. As the basses for hatred and envy .😂
@shutupavi27 күн бұрын
Nietzsche despised fascism. There’s reason to believe the Nazification of Nietzsche was a project undertaken by his sister who was quite fond of National Socialism. He believed Judaism was superior to Christianity and he canceled his friendship with Wagner over the latter’s growing anti-semitism so this short needs more context. Horrible presentation
@hansistein632511 ай бұрын
If you really want to understand anything of Nietzsche, read his Geneology of Morals.
@jamesrodgers313211 ай бұрын
"... thought themselves as disciples of not only Nietzsche but also significantly of Nietzsche." Eh?
@smb062111 ай бұрын
He means they didn’t think themselves disciples of many thinkers, Nietzsche included, but thought themselves as explicitly disciples of Nietzsche. That they credited Nietzsche as the chief influence undergirding their philosophy, not simply a tertiary contributor.
@zoomunzoom58939 ай бұрын
@@smb0621correct. They fused Darwinism and Nietzsche to come to their conclusion. Were they wrong? Certainly their methods. But it’s still up for debate, it’s why Nazi’s still get so much attention
@axcel91286 ай бұрын
@@zoomunzoom5893were they wrong? Or just in Christian humanist moral sense? Which Nietzsche hated btw.
@cyberista2 ай бұрын
Hicks not only gets Nietzsche wrong but significantly wrong. And the editing of this clip is significantly absurd.
@user-zt6kp6md5r2 күн бұрын
True. Btw there are also the "Wahnsinnszettel" in which good old Friedrich talked about getting rid of antisemites in a quiet brutal way...
@hardwoodthought1213Ай бұрын
There was a prominent Nazi party member who once said; “Nietzsche would have been a great Nazi, if not for the fact that he wasn’t a nationalist, wasn’t a socialist, and wasn’t an anti-Semite”.
@doodkfkrpekfmfmrke4998Ай бұрын
"In the fall of 1872 when touring in Switzerland he writes to his mother that he left early with fellow travelers in the morning on the mail run for the next stage of his trip and adds: 'unfortunately there was a Jew among them'
@VingulАй бұрын
I very much doubt that a prominent NSDAP member would use «Nazi» like that.
@shutupavi27 күн бұрын
@@doodkfkrpekfmfmrke4998bruh he canceled his friendship with Wagner because he was against antisemitism. Context
@doodkfkrpekfmfmrke499827 күн бұрын
@@shutupavi untrue lol, have you even read a book by nietzsche? the wagners literally told him to calm down with his antisemitism early on. Cosima wrote to him: "Do not name the Jews, especially not en passant. Later, if you want to engage in this terrible struggle, in God’s name, but not at the start, so that not everything on your path turns into confusion and entanglement. I hope you do not misunderstand me. You will know how much I agree, from the depths of my soul, with your statements, but not now, and not in that way." source: Briefwechsel. Kritische Gesamtausgabe. Edited Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. Quoted in Losurdo (2002) p. 113.
@quantillaprudentia134524 күн бұрын
@@doodkfkrpekfmfmrke4998 but you read a book by Nietzsche?! I don’t think so 😄 beside that, the letter tell nothing about Nietzsches view about Jews…
@danisraelmalta11 ай бұрын
If only they read his work and understood how much adimration he had to that "land less people who live among us and respect their elders"...
@smallbluemachine11 ай бұрын
The last 3 years have demonstrated today's PHDs and many academics vulnerability to such.. thinking.
@waynefay821011 ай бұрын
the last 3 years??
@TechnologyImpossible10 ай бұрын
More like the last few hundred.
@Diogenes_4310 ай бұрын
PHDs just align with whoever is in power so they gain patronage and don’t lose their credentials. They’re cowards.
@frodej66409 ай бұрын
No they are not vulnerable. They are convinced and been so for a long time. The number of fields that is most likely fake, is beginning to become staggering.
@beinghimself9 ай бұрын
Personal experience isn’t something to rely on. But i suppose there’s a century between the two so there’s ofc a difference
@DavidWilsonJr10 ай бұрын
I highly recommend Sue Prideaux’s biography of Nietzsche, I Am Dynamite. She sets the record straight about how Nietzsche’s sister, Elizabeth forced her brother’s philosophy to fit with her anti-Semitism and German nationalism. Nietzsche himself was anti-war, anti-nationalistic, and in his last written correspondence, wished that all anti-Semites be shot (I believe the letter was to Overbeck).
@user-qc3dn2el6j10 ай бұрын
“What is good?... Not at all peace, but war.” “One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.” “The free man is a warrior.” He definitely was not anti war.
@DavidWilsonJr10 ай бұрын
@@user-qc3dn2el6j How that article of Robert Dole's (that rejects the idea of Nietzsche's use of "war" as metaphor) ever got published in a journal amazes me... it reads more like an opinion piece from a university freshman.
@teageallen262410 ай бұрын
Where does he express being anti-war?
@zoomunzoom58939 ай бұрын
This is just hearsay XD. It’s like saying Einstein’s wife created all of his works. Pure propaganda of Marxists
@churly97179 ай бұрын
Nietzsche's works had already been published before his sister gained his works. There's only one version of his publications.
@willek133511 ай бұрын
You have PhD level people who pick and choose from whatever intellectual works of ages past. There's nothing new about that. There's nothing new about how post modernism (a largely leftist endeavour), builds on Nietzsches Perspectivism. Nietzsche picked up a dictionary in one hand and a thesaurus in the other, and basically blasted everyone from Wagner to Christians, to classical liberals. Nietzsche can't control antisemites admiration for him, anymore than the antisemites can control Nietzsche admiration for semitic cultures (old testament god, Zarathustra, etc.). I understand it's a short, so perhaps there's more nuance in the interview, but this short is pretty dumb.
@kauffrau676411 ай бұрын
`I'll say it, personally, when I am depressed or down or off track, I read Nietzsche. He always makes me feel more positive and clears up my thinking and my emotions. But that's just me.
@ageanleb16 күн бұрын
Thus, we see that Nietzsche's übermensch is very relative. You can be a nazi, communist, nationalist, liberal or other thing while you are übermensch. Because Nietzsche doesn't determine a way, he says determine your own way.
@user-qk6uv8fq5j4 күн бұрын
He really doesn't. I literally have a passage from Beyond Good and Evil in front of me where Nietzsche outwardly deplores the mixing of lower races and judges women as an inferior species in desperate need of being enslaved by men.
@richardrumana502511 ай бұрын
People have been reading and misreading Nietzsche since he started writing. So, it is unfair to blame him for what the Nazis misread. Or maybe he can be blamed a little; some of his rhetoric was militaristic or warrior based. But otherwise, the Nazis were into blood and soil stuff.
@hansistein632511 ай бұрын
Nietzsche was not a racist nor a Nazi. He died in 1900, years before anyone had heard of National Socialism. Hicks is facile on Nietzsche.
@MultiStu0811 ай бұрын
I think although he definitely wouldn't have been a proponent of Nazism, the point of his philosophy is that it's up to you to realise your own potential and the Nazi movement at it's inception under the likes of Dietrich Eckart attempted to forge something altogether different. Paradigm cases don't denote an endorsement of the policy
@MultiStu0811 ай бұрын
He's certainly facile to the extent of contrivance when it comes to postmodernism. I'd be surprised if he could pass G.C.S.E philosophy
@floatahhh10 ай бұрын
There was a strong Germanic pride that was the predecessor of national socialism.
@alephnull64574 ай бұрын
He's equally facile on postmodernism. Don't let that brain-damaged Canuck psychologist fool you.
@andysoul2953 ай бұрын
The american intellect never fails to misinterpret almost anything past the obvious.
@kys65579 ай бұрын
Nietz dispite his apocryphal connection to Nazism should still be studied for his incredible intellect and understanding of the human condition
@quentinsummers25319 ай бұрын
I agree, but so should NatSoc
@andredubois46017 ай бұрын
German soldiers carried Zarathustra in their bags on the battlefield
@modernoverman5 ай бұрын
Yeah that's a myth
@VingulАй бұрын
Officially distributed to soldiers, or just random soldiers who brought it with them? The latter seems more likely… Knut Hamsun’s «Growth of the Soil» was specially printed in an edition given to soldiers on the Eastern Front, however. I think it was an edition of 100,000 copies.
@Sam-_-10 ай бұрын
Anyone who says Nietzsche as Nietzschy is immediately discredited in my eyes. There has also been extensive literature and podcasts made over how the link to nazism is superficial at best.
@gabetorresx10 ай бұрын
OR you could actually read the work yourself and see how the lines are easily drawn
@tobiasbogner41479 ай бұрын
@@gabetorresxhow so?
@quentinsummers25319 ай бұрын
Or when they call him Frederic Nietzschy
@iamyearning8 ай бұрын
There are certainly links to Nazism(no point denying that), it's just irrelevant. It's a genetic fallacy.
@mahatmaniggandhi28985 ай бұрын
@@gabetorresx he hated anti-semitism
@raymemichaels20 күн бұрын
Nietzsche ranted and raved against German nationalism and anti-Semitism. In fact, he praised Jews abundantly throughout his works. In Part 8 of “Beyond Good and Evil,” he recommended that all anti-Semitic screamers be kicked out of Germany!
@seeingthedots8 ай бұрын
Nietzsche warned us not to dogmatise his teachings. Also his ideas are so open to interpretation that what is deduced says more about the reader than himself.
@themk498211 ай бұрын
He was an absolute genius but his philosophy was cold. He was a Godless man and he suffered terribly for it.
@luck3yp0rk9311 ай бұрын
Wasn’t his main critique of atheism I’d that it didn’t fill the void left by the absence of Christianity?
@johannagel452011 ай бұрын
@@luck3yp0rk93No, he criticised secular atheists for inheriting the morality of Christianity while claiming to have progressed beyond it.
@waynefay821011 ай бұрын
@@johannagel4520 I hardly see the problem with that
@christopherbolhuis874811 ай бұрын
@@waynefay8210It’s a disgusting pit of nihilism
@j.p.vanbolhuis867811 ай бұрын
@@waynefay8210 Nietzsche realised that a morality based on Nothing (or based on a rejected worldview) was a dead end that would end up in nothing. Of course that was a message that was unwelcome. Therefore quickly ignored.
@KoMerdanАй бұрын
Is this guy really claiming that Nazis understood what Nietzsche was writing?
@tmlavenz7 күн бұрын
I sure hope not
@solltemanwissen69542 ай бұрын
You throw that stone that high, but every stone has to fall- He never meant his philosophy in a political way as the nationalism understood. His point was the individual of freedom and to exist and understand you wouldn’t be in far away of any religion or some “-ism”. You didn’t done your homework ! You got a PhD? What kind of indicator for understanding of philosophy is a PhD? You do not understand Nietzsche, that a fact, in my opinion.
@hexadecimal776728 күн бұрын
People who take inspiration from the works and ideas of others. Will ALWAYS interpret it through their own personal perspectives and beliefs. -How many people have been slaughtered in the name of Jesus?
@uneasyrider19803 күн бұрын
Exactly. Shall we hold Darwin responsible for the Nazi's atrocities?
@JC-zw9vs11 ай бұрын
Ok. But why not educate me on what his theories were?
@Thisisnotmynamereally11 ай бұрын
Naturally there is only so much that can be shown in a 15 sec video short. Hicks has written extensively on Nietzche and there are several of his long-form lectures here on KZbin. I'd highly recommend him as one of the leading experts on both Nietzche and also the thought-process of Nazism.
@TheBuriedLedeR11 ай бұрын
I majored in Philosophy (Nietzsche) at University (Cal/Berkeley). His works are dense, nuanced, and complex. One thing is for certain. Nietsche valued the power of the individual. NOT the state. NOT the collective. Naziism = National SOCIALISM Everything about that murderous ideology Nietzsche would have found repugnant and repulsive. In that regard, Hicks knows not of what he speaks. Ditto for Jordan Peterson regarding the same subject matter.
@vidyaruchi481011 ай бұрын
@@TheBuriedLedeRbut Peterson is a big admirer of Nietzsche.
@EOTA56411 ай бұрын
@@TheBuriedLedeRNietzsche was a libertarian? This is new to me. You can’t deny the influence of Nietzsche’s ‘overman’ or ‘supermen’ on the Nazi’s ideology. Of course we could dismiss Nazi eugenics as a crude facsimile but they also weren’t in power for very long. Implementation is always messier than the ideal. How many times have we heard that Russia and the Soviet Union “wasn’t real communism”. Its architects certainly wanted it to be.
@TheBuriedLedeR11 ай бұрын
@@vidyaruchi4810 Nope. Quite the opposite. IMOPeterson's take on Nietzsche is, like so many others, way off the mark. Peterson is a (religious). true believer who observes life's phenomena through that narrow prism. Easy to misread Nietzsche.
@SanFran410 ай бұрын
Nietzsche was apolitical 😮
@alephnull64574 ай бұрын
This isn't accurate, or at least, is a shallow read of him. He very clearly commented on politics and expressed political beliefs. His politics have been summarized as 'Aristocratic Radicalism'. He just refused to think on the same terms as had been set by the past 500 years of western civilization. He was pro-hierarchy, pro-aristocracy, anti-nationalist, anti-racialist, anti-Christian, anti-anti-semitic, anti-egalitarian, anti-democracy, anti-liberal, AND anti-conservative. He was simply just not easy to classify (but there is an actual coherence to it, despite how superficially baffling it might seem at first), but he was not merely 'apolitical'. That's said, most of his insights could be better understood as meta-political rather than properly political.
@sacrificezone2 ай бұрын
“Disciples of, not only Nietzsche, but significantly Nietzsche” huh?
@sacrificezone2 ай бұрын
If y’all need a new editor Im available 😅
@localman70172 ай бұрын
Stephen Hicks is such a troll
@debrajarnagin71019 ай бұрын
His sister twisted alot of his theories to suit her own beliefs
@Ryan-mx4cy5 күн бұрын
Nietzche would have been completely against Nazi Germany he preached individualism. His sister edited his works and altered his philosophy to for her views.
@MultiStu0811 ай бұрын
This is a poor professor
@Diogenes_4310 ай бұрын
Nietzsche is the future.
@natedaug17 ай бұрын
But Nietzsche was critical of anti semitism and German nationalism. Yes the Nazi's used him but they misunderstood him
@DarkdayzzАй бұрын
Nietzsche's sister curated his work and edited it so it had more hypernationalist views
@tmlavenz7 күн бұрын
Goebbels also carried around the Bhagavad Gita in his pocket. What's your point.
@farleygranger11 ай бұрын
you should know this about nietzsche: nietzsche is dead.
@lpmuzza32749 ай бұрын
Not nietzsches fault 😅
@johnrobie969411 ай бұрын
I think it's fair to say that Nietzsche is responsible for the "National" part of Nazism, and Marx is responsible for the "Socialist" part of Nazism.
@TheBuriedLedeR11 ай бұрын
No, not fair at all. Nietzsche was quite candid in his anti German Nationalist views and sentiments. In fact, overt German chauvinism at the time is one of the reasons he terminated his personal friendship with the composer Richard Wagner.
@martinsugg948811 ай бұрын
Totally wrong, Nietzsche was scathing in his criticisms of Germany. His separation from Wagner was because of the direction that was heading in
@TheBuriedLedeR11 ай бұрын
@@martinsugg9488 Yes, that is exactly mirrors my argument, too.
@bx355611 ай бұрын
Bad people link themselves to good philosophers (or morally good religions), and they pretend like those philosophers or religions drove them to this evil, when it was their own greed or evil.
@thegreathadoken680810 ай бұрын
You understand that they don't think they are bad people, on the contrary, they think they're good people, the best people, with received wisdom that no one else has nor wants, and so 'the work' (listen for that phrase "do the work") of forcing this received wisdom on an unwilling, imprisoned world must begin. Its not just Nazis but communists, 'the woke', and whoever else
@svetlinsofiev19106 ай бұрын
There is no doubt he would've disagreed with the Nazis on many things. Question is would he consider them the lesser evil to Communism and even Liberalism
@mnoorist82237 ай бұрын
This man is very misinformed.
@TheAustinDockery3 ай бұрын
Intellectual historian Robert Whatmore spends a snippet of time in his book, “What is intellectual history” discussing why tracing Rousseau’s ideas to the French Revolution is inaccurate. Most neglect to consider the fact that the context of Rosseau’s “Social Contract” was the governance of small states like Switzerland, not France. Based on that, I am highly skeptical of his ideas that Nietzsche is the precursor to national socialism. Part of the reason why Nazis needed a PhD was to be well-educated enough to know how to appropriate Nietzsche’s work for the Nazi cause.
@edanderson808711 ай бұрын
I'll stick with the Messiah
@victorokeke339511 ай бұрын
Amen
@twcnz357011 ай бұрын
Well, Neitzche apparently actually existed.
@victorokeke339511 ай бұрын
@@twcnz3570 same with Jesus
@itscarl0zyall110 ай бұрын
Except His followers never exemplify His teachings
@zoomunzoom58939 ай бұрын
@@victorokeke3395Nietzsche never discredited Jesus. He said that it was an excuse not to be of superior morality. IE. People go to church every weekend in order to live the life of Jesus’ teachings. Yet, even with the power to, few do
@unregisturd11 ай бұрын
Rudolf Jung and Oswald Spengler much more so.
@criticalthinker-ys7vt9 күн бұрын
PhD´s are useless Paper - Elon Musk
@user-nf7pr8ls4i8 ай бұрын
Nazi stoled power from Nietzsche that is why they were powerful but they misinterpreted Nietzsche for their own sake that is why they perish eventually
@iwant2meetaliens4 ай бұрын
All you need to know about Nietzsche is that his mustache could eat your beard
@helenaviking3 ай бұрын
Misleading information.
@ezkibela2 ай бұрын
O please did you really read Nietzsche? The Nazis misinterpreted the Ubermensch idea from him , Nietzsche himself cuted friendship from Wagner couse Wagner was against the jews and Nietzsche thougth that was so dumb to think of. So he was against antisemitism. Her sister was the one who was guilty of the Nazis thinking and misinterpretation about her brother ideas.
@ChrisSamuel17293 ай бұрын
Goebbels likely read Karl Marx just to be extra sure not to follow anything Marx said We know this from the economic policies that the Nazis followed. They were the exact opposite of Marx Historically, did the Nazis practice more nationalizing (left-wing economics), or more privatizing (right wing economics)? When you know the answer to this, you will know whether the Nazis were left-wing or right-wing. The historical record indicates that the Nazi regime in Germany did not practice significant nationalization of formerly private firms. The only notable exception is the creation of the “Reichswerke Hermann Göring” for iron ore exploitation; the overall trend was reprivatization of enterprises wherever possible. Notably, the big German banks were reprivatized, and the state withdrew from their boards. The Nazis also developed a partnership with leading German business interests, favoring cartels and monopolies over small businesses. As for the question of whether the Nazis were right-wing or left-wing, it’s a complex issue. While the term “National Socialist” suggests socialism, the Nazi party’s actions did not align with traditional socialist policies. Their economic policies included privatization, limited trade, and an emphasis on military rearmament. Overall, the Nazis’ ideology and actions place them closer to the right-wing end of the political spectrum. // The Nazis: Right-Wing Economic Policies in Practice 1. Hitler's rise to power involved suppressing leftist movements, including the Communist Party and labor unions. 2. Rather than nationalizing industries, the Nazis favored collaboration with big businesses. They sought to strengthen the private sector. 4. The Nazis privatized formerly state-owned enterprises. The Nazis temporarily nationalized/“seized” some private enterprises, only to sell them to private parties. They aimed for a competitive, market-driven economy. 3. Major German corporations supported the Nazi regime, benefiting from government contracts and favorable policies. 5. Deregulation by the Nazis allowed businesses more freedom, aligning with right-wing economic ideals. 6. The Nazis suppressed labor movements, dismantled unions, and curtailed workers' rights. 7. The Nazis prioritized the interests of employers and industrialists over workers. The Nazis selectively curtailed personal liberties, against working class, and favoring wealthy elites.
@Tyler-je4ok9 ай бұрын
It really drives me insane hearing someone pronounce his name knee-chee. It's knee-chuh.
@dongaetano368711 ай бұрын
Thx John, I've watched a number of Prof Hicks' videos. A very good teacher. I also read "The AntiChrist" by Nietzsche. I'll definitely try and catch this interview.
@jsamuel2517 ай бұрын
Based
@Haharino11 ай бұрын
The most flamboyant of all philosophers - just wondering how many of his insights were influenced by his rampaging, madness-inducing syphilis
@rogertobison550811 ай бұрын
His last work was "Why I am so clever"😊
@Kyarareads7 ай бұрын
You do know he was misdiagnosed right ?
@kingdm831510 ай бұрын
Real
@dellh863 ай бұрын
This guy missreads everyone, if he reads at all. For more evidence of his stupidity, look into his conspiratory take on postmodernism
@JagdgeschwaderX11 ай бұрын
The Western world is collapsing, I couldn't care less about some philosopher
@luck3yp0rk9311 ай бұрын
Where is it collapsing lol
@DuckDonald4411 ай бұрын
The philosopher who is partly responsible for the world collapsing
@deanpd340211 ай бұрын
@@luck3yp0rk93 When you sleep at the wheel, you will come a cropper.
@stigcc11 ай бұрын
@@luck3yp0rk93We are in the middle of a cultural, racial, economical, social and religious collapse and you don't notice? Have you seen the "this is fine" meme?
@luck3yp0rk9311 ай бұрын
@@stigcc racial collapse? What are you some kind of Nazi dude? Things are fine.
@lucaguardamagna79193 ай бұрын
Studia
@MichaelVandekolk-pe3vc11 ай бұрын
ravi zachariah understood social Darwinian well God killer it's more than consequences of ideas and where they lead. without the holyspirt for real and true inner life change and influence in culture. jesus is life creator giver sustainer in ways beyond what is written by philosophers good to know
@russjcameo11 ай бұрын
He's an evolutionary dead end to Philosophy. It's important to understand garbage thought to understand the fools it steers, but it's not meant to be valued beyond that.
@mr.horrorchild409411 ай бұрын
You are wrong
@Jcremo11 ай бұрын
@russjcameo how so?
@luck3yp0rk9311 ай бұрын
What.
@FreedomSpirit1088 ай бұрын
I think Martin heidinger is probably more responsible than Nietzsche
@jameswoodard430411 ай бұрын
Sorry Freddie, but Ideas have consequences. Yes, he was very intelligent and brilliant, but his philosophy was poorly formed, emotion-based, and lacking in basic humane ethical concern. When your entire career is a panegyric for the theoretical Man of Power who will come and rule by the power of his will and his will to power, and you end up with a totalitarian dictatorship, who do you really have to blame? We only tend to think of the Nazi's in regards to their racial beliefs and then say, "Well, Nietzche wasn't really an anti-semite," so he's cleared. Racialism was an insidious symptom of Nazi ideology, but not it's defining factor. Nazism believed in the corporatist unification of the state behind a Fuhrer who was strong enough to take it and hold it. Gee, I wonder which modern philosopher, read by all educated Germans, is not only the only one which would even allow for such an ideaology, but practically demands it? Nietzche's ghost looking back in horror and clutching his proverbial pearls over Nazism saying, "Oh how terrible," is a sick joke. He was brilliant, but he was also a sick man who inflicted the world with a sick philosophy, and as I said, ideas have consequences.
@iankclark11 ай бұрын
Okay. I think Rousseau was way more corrosive to human values. Re Nietzsche -- think of it as Promethean fire.
@jameswoodard430411 ай бұрын
@@iankclark , It's not a competition. More than one philosopher can be bad.
@martinsugg948811 ай бұрын
Those who go straight to the Ubermensch aspect of Nietzsche is always quite telling. You’ve missed out on the most profound work and highlight what today would be considered despicable. Even then it’s misunderstood . Nietzsche suffered terribly throughout his life and still managed to write the most enthralling, optimistic and powerful philosophy we have. If you’re surprised at the use of optimistic when describing Nietzsche work, you’ve been reading him wrong.
@jameswoodard430411 ай бұрын
@@martinsugg9488 , Was anything I said incorrect? I never said that was the entirety of his philosophy or that he was necessarily pessimistic. Yet, my point still stands.
@kauffrau676411 ай бұрын
@@martinsugg9488 100%
@Jimothy-72310 ай бұрын
nietchze is a hack
@raphaelargus298411 ай бұрын
Nietzsche is overrated.
@kauffrau676411 ай бұрын
Nietzsche has influenced every philosopher who has come after him.
@jbourqueofpАй бұрын
This is literally the dumbest thing I’ve read today on the internet. I’m guess he’s never read nietzche
@leonmcclure56112 ай бұрын
😂 no such thing as the nazi party
@Missgevious11 ай бұрын
I was a philosophy major and I never liked Nietzsche. People don’t seem to grasp how negatively influential he has been on our world.
@martinsugg948811 ай бұрын
Reading him wrong. Not negative, but he understood that to truly live life, grasp it, you would need to wade through the mire that is mass misunderstanding of his work. He has been a shining star for those who understand his work.
@Missgevious11 ай бұрын
@@martinsugg9488 I’m a philosophy major. I’m not “reading him wrong”. I wrote many essays on his influence, and from my perspective, it was extremely negative to society as a whole.
@martinsugg948811 ай бұрын
@@Missgevious A Philosophy major who wrote essays. You must be right then. An attempted argument from authority isn’t a good argument. I find it staggering that people who read him (especially if they have studied him) find him negative. He observed what was happening in the world, and was right, but that doesn’t make him negative. His work is about authenticity, agency, responsibility, not following him but finding your own path, he was influential in celebrating the individual but recognised that we also needed a super structure. . Unless your religious and can’t get past “the god is dead” quote, which he didn’t write as a positive event. I maintain when really going into his work, it is positive. This work from someone who suffered terribly from crippling illness when alive but found the strength to write so wonderfully. As it seems to matter to you I’m an existential psychotherapist, and have read Nietzsche for the last 35 years. You don’t get him after one reading. His work also needs to be read as a whole. Your opinion is yours to have, I just think it’s missing the essence of what his work was about. Best wishes