Nietzsche and Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Becoming Gods

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In this video we introduce Nietzsche's masterpiece, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the book in which he puts forth his ideal of the Übermensch, or Superman.
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Become a supporting member, get access to exclusive videos, and help us grow! academyofideas.com/members/ Thus Spoke Zarathustra (everyone should have a copy of this book) - amzn.to/2wuDzfB You can find a list of all the paintings used in this video here: academyofideas.com/2017/09/nietzsche-thus-spoke-zarathustra-becoming-gods/

[@Braam89]

The selection of paintings just stunned me! Great work! Coincidentally, I finished my first reading of Thus Spoke Zarathustra just a couple of days ago, thank you so much for this upload! As always, great content, real intellectual nourishment.

[@despair3437]

worth noting that reading beyond good and evil prior to reading thus spake zarathustra is wise if you wish to grasp Nieztsche's his apthorisms

[@DavidConnerCodeaholic]

i made a religion about teleological engineering to avoid technonihilism as we approach the singularity. this extends the path provided by nietzsche's work. te.xel.io/posts/2017-02-07-oneirontology-semiotics-karma-and-moral-consequentialism.html

[@brandonjimenez902]

Have a question @academyofideas Throughout meaning readings of Nietzsche I've noticed that there's an element or a hint of his hopes of transcendence of men being the next Evolution stage of evolution and even hints of eugenics. And I understanding this right. And I also understand that all his books was published after he passed away and his secretary was the one who published them after his death can that have any influence on his writing?

[@tomrhodes1629]

No, everyone should have a copy of the book "The Holy Grail is Found." Because, with "Thus Spake Zarathustra" Nietzsche tries to substitute for absolute Truth with intellectual maneuverings that lead one full circle, back to the questions that are answered nowhere in his work, but ARE answered in "The Holy Grail is Found."

[@blackwaterorg]

You, my friend, are a bridge to the Superman.

[@ambianist1262]

Definitely

[@lordawesometony2764]

@Hana Ayo Alemayehu lmao wtf?

[@refiner2317]

A brick in the bridge

[@lordawesometony2764]

@Hana Ayo Alemayehu the left is trash though. They keep pushing out decadent values.

[@lordawesometony2764]

@Hana Ayo Alemayehu like glorifying the weak. Demonizing the strong. Respecting everyone. Making everyone equal.

[@emanonymous]

"We can accept God becoming man to save man, but we cannot accept man becoming God to save himself." -Vernon Linwood Howard

[@FitOutsideTheBox]

cruhg powerful quote!

[@kythrathesuntamer9715]

I don't particularly care what you cannot accept, I am on the left hand path now and am very much so declaired for What you Christians refer to as the Devil.

[@mikitz]

Left hand path, man. I am both God and the Devil to myself, but not to anyone else. People have hard time dealing with this, which isn't really my problem.

[@neslisultan]

Oh if you can realise this you have taken such a leap in your evolution. Thank you for this!

[@JohnSmith-op3qj]

@@kythrathesuntamer9715 that's pretty edgy

[@eclipse5393]

I'm glad these videos are properly interpreting Nietzsche's commonly misunderstood Superman/Overman.

[@SmartbyDesign]

Great timing, I just finished reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra! It's amazing how relevant his writing is today

[@harmonica7064]

Deepest book ever written.

[@harmonica7064]

It is hard to simply spew them out and expect people to understand. Unless you are used to operating in a framework in which they are beget - and that's something you have to be predisposed for - you won't be able to relate, not even in the least. Even Nietzsche himself had said it: "One has to be born for it."

[@Ozoal]

Havnt read the book, but all I can say is that mankind has never changed, and probably will never change. When you see how greek philosophers describe the world its really obvious it never changed.

[@harmonica7064]

Zarathustra isn't addressing mankind but rather individuals.

[@sudonfunkenflug6409]

Smart by Design It is quite fascinating. Nietzsche wrote perhaps a good 100 years before his time. The consequences of living in a world were god is well and truly dead and in which mankind is completely on it's own, is only now beginning to dawn upon us. His solution to the problems the death of god causes are more relevant than ever.

[@wouldntyouliketoknow8904]

This actually made me cry.

[@klesox7964]

Allegedly Immortal why the fuck would it make you cry

[@GearZNet]

I *feel* you.

[@DeusExHomeboy]

I didn't cry.. I voluntarily released uber-tears

[@Bazrak1]

understandable - To be a bridge you somewhat isolate yourself from the herd ( mentality ) , refuse easy rewards as much as possible and strive overcome your own flaws as good as you can. That is hard work and only a few have the ears to listen to you and your ideas. This causes pain and needs strength - hearing these words and ideas spoken out loud and feeling yourself being spoken to or recognized as said bridge , touches in a most profound way. It gives a glimps of meaning and reassurance to the ones seeking more and facing questions that seem unanswerable. - I for one , feel that way. Not in an arrogant and selfserving way ( at least i try not to ) , but as a self aware individual longing for likeminded people to share thoughts and conversations about ideas that frighten , bother or inspire me the most. ... or something like that

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Bazrak1 speaking to my soul

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[@thebeautifulones5436]

I am growing a Nietzschen mustache. When it covers my whole mouth I might try reading one of his books.

[@Smalliced]

seems its about time to pick up a book

[@Android-jass]

did you?

[@shipaskof8371]

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[@TheLandOfTears]

I think I understand now why Nietzsche went mad, his mind tried to penetrate the infinite, each time he lifted a veil there was another veil in front of him and so on and so forth ad infinitum, thus leading to his madness. To all those who are going to adopt Nietzsche's worldview and philosophy, here is a warning from the man himself, "And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." -Nietzsche

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TheLandOfTears s He is a genius after all, and all geniuses are mad

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[@jamesbank833]

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[@engineerSalih]

@@jamesbank833 Most likely it is genetic, cuz he father had the same madness and he wasn't a philosopher.

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[@ramesnashat1]

Nietzsche ideas are deeply dark, it's the rephrasing of exactly what the serpent told Adam and Eve in the old testament.

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7:50 for too long...

[@kookverslaving]

If people are interested in Nietzsche, Gregory B. Sadler is doing currently a series on Nietzsche's core concepts in one of his works. Big recommendation.

[@christopherrivera1673]

Schopenhauer: "Quite ordinary and shallow men are able to produce books of very great importance because of their matter, which was accessible to them alone. Take, for instance, books which give descriptions of foreign countries, rare natural phenomena, experiments that have been made, historical events of which they were witnesses, or have spent both time and trouble in inquiring into and specially studying the authorities for them. On the other hand, it is on form that we are dependent, where the matter is accessible to every one or very well known; and it is what has been thought about the matter that will give any value to the achievement; it will only be an eminent man who will be able to write anything that is worth reading. For the others will only think what is possible for every other man to think. They give the impress of their own mind; but every one already possesses the original of this impression. However, the public is very much more interested in matter than in form, and it is for this very reason that it is behindhand in any high degree of culture. It is most laughable the way the public reveals its liking for matter in poetic works; it carefully investigates the real events or personal circumstances of the poet’s life which served to give the motif of his works; nay, finally, it finds these more interesting than the works themselves; it reads more about Goethe than what has been written by Goethe, and industriously studies the legend of Faust in preference to Goethe’s Faust itself. And when Bürger said that “people would make learned expositions as to who Leonora really was,” we see this literally fulfilled in Goethe’s case, for we now have many learned expositions on Faust and the Faust legend. They are and will remain of a purely material character. This preference for matter to form is the same as a man ignoring the shape and painting of a fine Etruscan vase in order to make a chemical examination of the clay and colours of which it is made. The attempt to be effective by means of the matter used, thereby ministering to this evil propensity of the public, is absolutely to be censured in branches of writing where the merit must lie expressly in the form; as, for instance, in poetical writing. However, there are numerous bad dramatic authors striving to fill the theatre by means of the matter they are treating. For instance, they place on the stage any kind of celebrated man, however stripped of dramatic incidents his life may have been, nay, sometimes without waiting until the persons who appear with him are dead."

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[@arrow_of_longing]

If you're interested in Nietzsche, read Nietzsche.

[@TheVMbros]

The words or Carl Jung and Nietzsche speak directly to my soul. I am grateful for their passionate message to humankind, and for this KZbin channel… which has managed to introduce me to them. I am beginning to feel great hopes for the future; my path has never been so clear. I wish upon you all great strength and self-knowledge… for it is us, seekers of truth that will shine a light during these times of darkness. It is highly probable that we will fail, but it is our duty to try.

[@dirtymeatball6315]

This is quite disconcerting. I've pondered this for some time, scary to realize I'm not alone in this observation.

[@moshyura]

You're definitely not alone. And just think, this guy had these thoughts 150 years ago.

[@brunocremonezzi3715]

​@@moshyura Yeah, he simply preticted the nihilism that would take over western society.

[@wadeguidry6675]

The "last man" is alive and well in this "Idiocracy" of ours, old Nietzsche was pretty smart in his predictions.

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Thanks for this video! Fascinating content and excellent choice of art to accompany. 👏🏼

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Possibly one of your greatest videos I've seen to date. Thank you for this.

[@guitarmann3001]

Yay! I'm glad you're starting a series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra!!!!

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[@plainnsimplme]

great work!as brief as it is the context is clear and inlightening.

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[@willdittig8369]

Amazing vid as always. Really inspiring stuff I am about to get a copy of thus spoke Zarathustra.

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[@MyMinecrafter97]

Really looking forward to the upcoming zarathustra videos :)

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Man youre doing a whole lot of us a great great service breaking down neitzsche. I cannot thank you enough

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[@shervins9139]

Thank you for making another one of these videos for Nietzsche

[@akrulla]

That was beautiful. Thank you.

[@infernotrout7801]

Thank you Sir.. timing couldn't be better, as i am reading Thus spake Zarathustra right now!!

[@sunam5599]

Powerful lesson, thanks bro

[@c.galindo9639]

Amazing. Absolutely fascinating and shows what more a person can do upon themselves to achieve the greatness they need to achieve towards pursuing who they are as their best self

[@michaelnech3356]

Solid vid. Look fwd to Zarathustra videos that are to follow

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[@mattgilbert7347]

Thoroughly engaging. "Days of Nietzsche in Turin" is well worth a look, if you haven't seen this excellent film. No dialogue, instead we have narration from his books and letters and various silent or narrated tableaus from his time in Turin, and certain key events in his life. The notion of the "select few" has had some unfortunate consequences, not the least of which Ayn Rand's ludicrous, autistic philosophy of vulgar capitalism (i.e Galt's Gulch in "Atlas Shrugged") It is never a good idea to go full Nietzsche, and you are quite right to avoid treating him as some sort of infallible prophet. I don't think it is a good idea to take the notion of the overman too literally. It is a new Highest Value, a new star by which one can orient oneself, it something one can never *be* (as you point out) but, more importantly, something that *can* never be.

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[@uglyn3wb28]

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[@mohammadabushindi6739]

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[@BN-fi9wi]

"Do not reject the hero in your soul"

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[@woahxzoo9450]

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[@woahxzoo9450]

Liberty Infinite being intelligent at all is a curse in my opinion, can you imaging how great it would be to be so unaware that you can just happily stumble through life without knowingly rejecting your potential?

[@liaml.e.5964]

"They will die a death that will last millennia, until all that remains is their code, their history, and in the end, the shell of their armor upon the shell of a man, too easily slain [...]" -Kreia-

[@F0XxX98]

The art used in these videos are so good

[@RayMainBagpiper]

Insightful !

[@MacSmithVideo]

When he says none of you are Overmen (a translation I prefer to Superman), he's talking to characters that represent his own weaknesses, as well as his flawed teachers. He isn't really saying that modern man can't be Overmen, but that he must himself move beyond these flawed caricatures to become the Overman (essentially, the Overcoming Man; He who overcomes himself over and over). It's purely psychological. Zarathustra himself does become the Overman in the end.

[@cloud3destavillo424]

very informative

[@easye4329]

I personally see the "Death of God" as the necessary or destiny of humanity. Just as Neitzche says we must become gods ourselves to find new meaning in the absence of the all mighty creator. The History of mankind is one of apotheosis. The Greeks said Zeus lived in fear of his children supplanting him and taking the thrown and power of their father, just as he did to his father and his father did before him. This fear is exemplified in their myths and their view of hubris as sin. As the downfall of hubris is always caused by the gods punishing those they deem "to step beyond their place". As the the titans overthrew their parents and created the gods. Only to be over thrown by their creations, so too the gods feared their creations, man. Today we see they were correct in their fear as we now stand at the precipice of our destiny. Having surpassed and killed God. Do we fall to our own creations or do we surpass ourselves and become something greater yet. If man is greater than God what could be greater than man? The Superman.

[@pwwka999]

He said before he went mad the tragedy is not that God was dead but rather that ppl go on worshipping a dead God. To bee appreciated one cannot interpret 'God' as literal deity but projections of the human psyche.

[@thevitruvianman9781]

James Bradley You have no clue what he means by God is dead, it's a shame people take these things literal.

[@pwwka999]

That's literally what I said. To not take it literal. And dont tell me what I dont know .

[@ruthruthie2931]

The Vitruvian Man or maybe it’s both?

[@ubuynow]

No no no, God is dead because people stopped worshiping the sacred.

[@floridaman_85_58]

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[@jamesjones3486]

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[@The-Yellow-Man]

This was strangely moving. I've never known anything about Nietzsche or his ponderings until now. But I am interested to know more now.

[@TheSilenceOfEden]

I literally just started reading this book 3 days ago! And this comes up I my feed. Strange

[@sadokaguel1854]

I have read this book at least 9 times and I still find something new and impressive every single time I read it

[@connectingconnecticut8621]

As I am watching the screen but unloading the dishwasher, my eyes fixed on the words on my cell phone. "bridges to the Superman"....I feel the cool, slightly-still-wet ceramic in my hand that I've just reached down to be the next item I take out of the top shelf of the dishwasher..... and it is a Superman mug. The only one like it, all the rest are of a blue ceramic plain matching set. Of all the moments.

[@antkcuck]

Connecting Connecticut synchronicity

[@nightskyludens5894]

Holy shit

[@keyboardcorrector2340]

How fatalistic.

[@OmniValor]

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[@Varkolak88]

greetings from 2020. this content is hitting hard in my time. I blame myself, for needing to witness examples of the Last Man to understand its depravity.

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Magnifficent!!!

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I obtained 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' about 7 years ago. It changed me completely.

[@jasjay873]

Is there a list of all the art work shown in this video? So cool!

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[@sh0gun98]

Nietzsche underestimated how stubborn people were to give up their beliefs.

[@eclipse5393]

No he didnt'. He has aphorisms stating just that.

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[@harmonica7064]

Reading the comments here...it is painfully obvious who has experienced the growth towards Overman and who is merely flirting with the idea on an intellectual level. The former have no doubt that they are a bridge - a prelude to better players - the latter still turn to mankind's old prejudices and are therefore trapped in a labyrinth.

[@ruslanuchan8880]

Is it that obvious?

[@OmniValor]

@@ruslanuchan8880 yes

[@sulphate3348]

Sounds like the same story the serpent gave Eve in the Garden of Eden: "Ye shall become as God."

[@dnaya7750]

Have you ever thought about why one third of the angels (according to your holy book) turned away from your..god? There must be a reason huh? Have you even read the bible? I have many times, from genesis to revelation. It's a very twisted book, a godspell.

[@sulphate3348]

@@dnaya7750 ​ Certainly, the fallen angels, just as fallen humans wanted to engage in wicked behavior and the Holy One demands righteousness. We all are given freewill. Our choice. I am just as weak, if not weaker, than any angel, but I have sought salvation through faith in the One who had given up His earthly crown that I may be redeemed.

[@1995yuda]

No, he believed in the God of Israel, the God of the original and only real word of God.

[@davidcraig7771]

@@sulphate3348 it’s not free will if one option involves burning in hell

[@sulphate3348]

@@davidcraig7771 Two paths. Choose wisely. I have faith you will take the righteous path.

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Ty

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Yes!!

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10:57 ... to alexander . in deep respect .

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