NIETZSCHE Explained: DAYBREAK - Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Daybreak is probably the most underrated canonical work of the famous German philosopher. Overshadowed by Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Daybreak offers an overview of Nietzsche’s main ideas in a way you might not have heard about them before.
The first part covers the title of the book, Nietzsche’s overarching project, and his love for the empirical presocratic philosophers (Democritus, Heraclitus, Anaximenes, Thales of Miletus) and his distaste for the idealistic philosophy of Plato and his World of Forms.
In part two we dive deep into Nietzsche’s so-called assault on morality. Drawing heavily upon German materialism and “morality’s greatest prejudice”, Nietzsche will seek to destroy the moralities of old, moralities informed by false belief in a Hinterwelt. Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer, Christianity: all moral systems will have to meet their end. Nietzsche then challenges us to create a new morality. A morality not built on custom and tradition.

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[@WeltgeistYT]

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[@satnamo]

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[@WeltgeistYT]

If you found this video helpful, please like & subscribe. It helps out the channel a great deal. Thank you for watching! There's more Nietzsche coming.

[@satnamo]

Why does happiness always lie in das future man ?

[@BolivarArkestra]

Short list of other philosophers/writers that may fit the bill for future vids: Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus Love all things Nietzsche too! Keep up the great work!

[@GhGh-gq8oo]

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[@Wrenasmir]

I remember seeing a lovely hardcover edition of an English translation of Daybreak around twenty years ago in a secondhand bookshop. I had all of Nietzsche's other works at the time and did not know about Daybreak and, for reasons unknown, decided to leave it on the shelf. It's good to listen to your explication of the work here, thank you.

[@WeltgeistYT]

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[@erisstewart4236]

Can't wait for more videos.

[@satnamo]

I can wait. I can fast. I can think. I am all corrected.

[@satnamo]

Friedrich Wil. Nietzsche wakes up and then gets up before dawn to read and write until 11, uninterrupted. He then goes out for a walk along the lakes or through the forests. Returning to das hotel for lunch, He eats an enormous amount of fruits and a beef steak. He then goes for an even longer walk to de majestic glaciers. Returning to his room in the evening, He survives on biscuits and teas. He reads and writes until his eyes burn out at 1111. De secret to a good night sleep is to stay awake all day.

[@milascave2]

Sat: He had TERRIBLE insomnia, was in terrible health, and took sleeping pills and other drugs to remedy. his insomnia, physical pain, and depression. He was not the strong disciplined man he sometimes portrayed himself to be, and sometimes he admitted as much. One can respect a man and his writing without turning him into a mythical hero,

[@Nothing_to_see_here_27.]

Where did he write about his routine?

[@chinmaymhaskar9954]

Your content is absolutely amazing!! The explanations are really easy and coherent! Keep up the great work!

[@WeltgeistYT]

Thank you!

[@kyilwin7190]

Good work, waiting for Will to power

[@WeltgeistYT]

Working on it

[@sonnyjim5268]

Me to.

[@minimalism2o2o]

Beyond mankind. Good work sire! You have covered Nietzsche at length. I will watch the full video in peace. This is some dense content.

[@albertceva1526]

I needed to take a break halfway.

[@ryanbrusuelas4805]

Really enjoyed this video. Nice pacing and explanation.

[@adrianlewis7239]

A fascinating overview or introduction to a work that I had not known existed!!!

[@cmvamerica9011]

We are all fighting the same demons and seeking the same angels; but we bring different weapons to the fight and different instruments to the search.

[@danielkey929]

This is truly one of your best presentations. I am very much looking forward to Zarathusra. But take your time it needs to be good, don't hurry

[@kimburgess2897]

Thank you for your videos. It is very helpful, as I was struggling with Beyond Good and Evil, and thought I was missing the mark.

[@WeltgeistYT]

Thank you!

[@fauziajasia2548]

you explain very clearly and simply. Thanks. Jazakallahu khairan

[@jamilkhan715]

Really enjoyed it. In fact I started my day with this video.

[@bartekmlotkowski6464]

Great video. I'm glad that someone bothered to review this work. Maybe Nietzsche isn't often associated with Daybreak, but it was a very important book for his philosophy, because it paved the way for Joyful Science. Also the book is very profound itself. It's full of insights about sympathy, customs, the influence of habits on judgements. Moreover in this book Nietzsche encourages readers to notice processes in themselves that they offen suppress their awareness of. One of my favourite passages (it's a simple one, but best conveys the meaning of this book): 124. What Is Volition?-We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

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[@WeltgeistYT]

Thank you

[@satnamo]

Love is not consolation because love is das light

[@Lens.Grinder]

Great content!

[@michaele.2583]

Intrestingly Nietzsches wordcreation "Hinterweltler" in german has a connotation to the much more common word "Hinterwäldler", meaning something like hillbilly. I always think about that, when I hear Heideggers queston: "Warum bleiben wir in der Provinz?"

[@ShiwankGupta]

Waiting for more translations of Nietzsche's work.

[@WeltgeistYT]

More coming.

[@abogadocarlosmorthera]

Many thanks. Excellent! Respectfully from Cancún, México 🇲🇽

[@jeffjalili5660]

Thanks very much for the video! Perhaps this is answered in other videos that I haven't watched yet but a question arises here: He does away with tradition, claiming it's arbiterary and hence not rooted in anything. What if one argues that the reason that a certain outlook on morality has come to become the tradition, proves its validity and its life-serving value. I.e. I'm having difficulty digesting his dispensing with the value of tradition

[@WeltgeistYT]

Tradition arises out of a struggle for power. But this is not really crystallized in Daybreak yet, the Will to Power comes later in Nietzsche's thought. Daybreak isn't Nietzsche's final form, so to speak..

[@constancewalsh3646]

'morality' is a modern, mental concept. the first 'morality' was instinct. survival. just as was the first 'love' - nurture. there are endlessly evolving levels of these traits innate in the whole person.

[@ezravanessen7288]

really good work and indeed I'll be waiting for the will to power!

[@WeltgeistYT]

Thank you!

[@Ayatollah123]

More please!

[@coastercritic287]

the synchronicity while watching this one was insane.

[@scottkraft1062]

I need a little help with the 4th part of Zarathustra I just recently found your channel and really enjoy your content thanks.

[@WeltgeistYT]

Thank you. What's the problem?

[@scottkraft1062]

@@WeltgeistYT the higher man is beyond God or become his own God. i stopped reading at the ugliest man. Does each person he meet represent a religion

[@piesdescalzos27]

Hey could you upload the transcription somewhere? thanks for your videos they are excellent!

[@888mabraham]

Waiting for more.

[@FringeWizard2]

William Walker Atkinson has the idea about dominant desire in The Arcane Teachings.

[@abogadocarlosmorthera]

In spite of our epistemic endeavours, aiming the perfection of our penal justice axioms, crime rates just fail to diminish; thus confirming Master Nietzsche's assessments, on the mere pre-acknowledgement of established codes, for moral behaviours!

[@anilthapa5631]

Good job 👍.

[@LongLiveEnduro]

awesome...I finally wake up....more from Nietzsche please!

[@satnamo]

Before de dawn You come to me- Das loneliest of all. All I want to do is to fly- To fly up unto you. But to fly 1 must be strong and healthy.

[@CarlosESanchez10]

good, thanks..

[@mangakasaide2166]

It is good because it has come before us and survived, ~Nietzsche (on morals and customs) A small summary on how Nietzsche saw how morals came to be, the origin of morals.

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

I like the idea of the hinterwelt being the "backworld" as it depicts Christianity as retrograde in contrast to the future of potentiality Nietzsche is attempting to engender in a new day. I beileve it is backwards: the world is divided into the narrative and the objective. The narrative world is the one that can be said to be the most vital, if not the most real, and is the one humanity grew out of. Where things get confusing is that there is an intermediate period where the narrative and objective worlds were contaminated as human consciousness developed. Thus the narrative and the objective are not readily distinguished until the collapse into secularism. The "Kingdom of God" is where we started, but Christianity took us to the illusionary material world ruled by Lucifer, whose light is identical with the brilliance of scientific rationalism. The theologians spoke of a hinterwelt as the domain of God, but this was actually the superego. The real domain of God was the unconscious. There is a force straddling these two domains known as the Self who's purpose is to unite them. This is Christ. Unfortunately, the Self must necessarily have a dual aspect. And so on the one hand Jesus successfully inrojected his unity with God into the populace and thereby redeemed the world by creating the possibility for individual redemption, it was the antichrist who rose three days later and perverted the image of Jesus into a supernatural freak. Thus Christianity is a paradox with two mutually contradictory aspects: the imitation of Christ pertaining to Jesus, and the blashpmey of identification with God pertaining to the antichrist. As such, anyone who preached the good news was killed and the antichrist has been in increasing ascendancy to the present moment. In short, the hinterwelt is the objective world, whereas the romantics, such as Nietzsche, took the side of man's subjective nature, which is the narrative world and the divine.

[@ashokmacho1932]

Pls make video on Aristotle pls

[@igorszopinski1822]

I have a question 🙋‍♂️. Love ❤️ or hate can often be a drive. Does that mean they form part of the ‘will to power’?

[@stefdiazdiaz7067]

If we were sure what is really convenient we would try to act in accordance

[@abogadocarlosmorthera]

A quick reckoning about the expansion in Master Nietzsche's materialistic theory, through the assimilation of our status-quo, in quantum mechanics?!

[@bubu.__]

Indeed the narrator is great,but still I am finding difficulty in understanding their books and ideas. What should I do? I am 17 and eng isn't my first language

[@lalsenarath]

Human morality is the result of us being community creatures. This type of activity is shown in other creatures. Evolution of community creatures have given them the quality of morality. Then causality, space and time are useful qualities of the empirical world. It is formed by two entities intertwined together. The human brain and the world outside. You see, these qualities need rigid bodies. Without regid bodies we can't think of space. So space in itself cannot be an independent quality of the world.

[@lambd01d]

Morality exists because of a fear of violence. A group is capable of more violence than an individual. If you're stronger than an individual, you can behave immorally towards them without much in the way of negative consequences. If you're the leader of a group and can control them, you're not obliged to act in the same ways of conventional morality as someone who is at the bottom of the social hierarchy, as Machiavelli points out in the Prince, although you should still be seen to act morally, in order to prevent the group from turning against you.

[@bonobo3833]

What would be the best order too read Nietzsche’s books? Im just learning about him

[@WeltgeistYT]

We have a video dedicated to answering this question. Genealogy of Morals is the best start

[@bonobo3833]

@@WeltgeistYT thank u very interesting

[@williampetrovic5427]

Is there a particular translation that you'd recommend of this one?

[@WeltgeistYT]

RJ Hollingdale if you can find it: amzn.to/3BsOUJT

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[@whoaitstiger]

"Just a second here! I don't have your fundamental substrate of reality here! No! It's, it's in Bill's world and, and Fred's world!"

[@abogadocarlosmorthera]

Circa 150 years away from Master Nietzsche's prediction & tradition still determines morality, along with grupal interests; but regretfully not, our scientific advancements!

[@stefdiazdiaz7067]

Or Archetype

[@letshavefun5210]

His philosophy is good but it won't work in this world as it is now but it is right his philosophy is the best one of all

[@sarahsarah2534]

The expression "to know what is good" is meaningless, because the term "good" implies judgement. One can only know a fact, not a judgement! Thus no person could ever know what is good; only judge what is good.

[@walgekaaren1783]

Morgenröte -- Akatsuki -- Dawn -- Koit; subarashii Saviours erwachte vaimutoit! Genii wissen Kitsune-Hime loits -- Seppuku der Hinterwelt gallivanting Kõik!!

[@walgekaaren1783]

Ideals betray, Ideals set sail; they sway and lay down to rest; putting all Supermen to the test -- as the peasants to the nude emperor say Hail!

[@shirleyniedzwiecki1104]

"... footnotes to Plato," hilarious! Cause and effect, eh? Have you explored Oriental philosophy, specifically Nichiren Buddhism? The simultaniety of cause and effect is the bases of the entire philosophy. It would be interesting

[@WeltgeistYT]

I’ll look into it. Sounds interesting

[@shirleyniedzwiecki1104]

@@WeltgeistYT It's possible that you will find of interest (in Nichiren Buddhism) the concept of the Buddha Nature (inherent in all living beings) and Nietzsche's Ubermensch. (forgive my spelling if. off). A big difference exists as well in the explanation of the motivations, traits and characters of these exceptional humans and the conditions required to manifest them. Western thought was born of separation and reduction and continues in that rut. But for Nietzsche....

[@satnamo]

@@shirleyniedzwiecki1104 Man is das Buddha in ruin.

[@shirleyniedzwiecki1104]

@@satnamo If I understand you correctly, man (both man and woman) are the only living beings capable of seeking the Way. Unless we seek the Buddha Nature, inherent in all beings, we will not win. And, essentially, Buddhism concerns itself with winning and losing. It’s quite clear that apart from Nichiren Buddhism, all other forms are based on Shakyamuni’s Buddhism, which the Buddha himself predicted would lose its ability to save living beings in the third 500 year period and beyond, for ten thousand years or more, called the Evil Age of the Later Day of the Law.

[@satnamo]

Dao=arche\ because de Dao gives rise to 1. One gives rise to 2. Two gives rise to 3. Three gives rise to 10000 things in das universe.

[@EwingAmaterasu]

13:23

[@sarahsarah2534]

Massive contradiction in Nietzsche's thought: if all morals arise from the material world and they cannot do otherwise, if Christianity as all religions and ideologies is only a cover for human natural impulses, how would it be possible to "create" new morals? It's amazing that Nietzsche couldn't see the glaring inconsistency of his proposition.

[@EthanNoble]

Are you serious? Is this a real question?!! LOL it’s because the basis of Christianity is the idea of another world (heaven/hell) which doesn’t exist in the material sense. Their “True world” theory which Nietzsche has talked about.

[@user-uo1xn7kv4r]

@@EthanNoble The problem you so well illustrate is the inability to read even simple sentences.

[@marcpadilla1094]

Only in the now Postmodern year of the death of our lord can we claim dissatisfaction while bestowing power onto the systems we claim are the source of dissatisfaction. While being absolutely clueless. In fact the only solution is more authoritarianism.

[@BvG-ck2ry]

Would it not be better to translate ‘the will to power’ as ‘the drive to power’? A ‘will’ is useally associeted wth a mind. And since Nietzsche applies this not only to humans, but also to annimals, plants and even rocks it would be better to speak of a ‘drive’.

[@WeltgeistYT]

Perhaps yes. It all goes back to Schopenhauer who used ‘will’ because it the drive/phenomenon in humans is most readily knowable/accessible to us. Mind if I use this comment in a future video?

[@BvG-ck2ry]

@@WeltgeistYT of course I don’t mind if you use it in a future video :-)

[@paulskillman7595]

How do you prove heaven and the kingdom of God?

[@cajka7803]

Oh yeah, the word μέθεξης is the magic. He was asleep, that Nietzsche.

[@SuperSSystem]

Wtf, every 5m ads

[@Erandieux]

Hinterwelt ist die Realität!

[@marcpadilla1094]

The spectrum or scale explanation is too difficult to manage enough individually. Gratification delay is an authoritarian responsibility. Ironically if authoritarians take responsibility they stay authoritarian. Morality for the sake of power is.actually the best possible outcomes . Equality is like sex,just a means to an emotional/ physical end not a logical end. An ideal is just an appetite. The Postmodern definition is ideals replacing ideals.Transvaluation.

[@mariog1490]

I’m not sure why he says Christianity believes the world is fallen. It’s so clear he’s German because he clearly views Christianity through a Gnosticism.

[@IFYOUWANTITGOGETIT]

The double irony of Nietzsche (literally having his mind infected by syphilis) regarding Schopenhauer’s metaphysics as infected when Schopenhauer’s response to such criticisms would be acknowledgement that existence itself is a kind of infection. Lol 😆 Nietzsche wasn’t as lucid as Schopenhauer, just more popular due to his views which resonated with the Will and desires to find meaning.

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

The idea that the thing in itself disproves the notion of objective truth is misleading. What it does is prevent any kind of truth whatsoever by obliterating the subject. There is no objective truth in the absence of the subject. So even if you are "on the side" of objective morality and understanding, it is no use to you to demean subjectivity. You are simply playing into the devil's hand and rendering yourself blind.

[@mega4171]

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[@sarahsarah2534]

Kant's concept of "objective" is so stupid. What can objectivity even mean if any and all qualities are produced by some mind?

[@TheRollmopsi]

Nietzsche was NOT a materialist

[@virgilioblanco]

All this came about by erasing the teachings of the Egyptians!!!

[@TupacMakaveli1996]

What a sinner lol