Nietzsche Introduction: On the Genealogy of Morality (essay 1)

An analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche’s first essay, ‘Good and Evil, Good and Bad’ in On the Genealogy of Morality. I look a the key concepts in the text: master morality, slave morality, ressentiment, the blond beast of prey. I also look a this essay in context with a few of Nietzsche’s other ideas, like the Ubermensch, and Beyond Good and Evil.
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[@ThenNow]

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[@dandogzbutt1518]

what is the video playing at 4:34

[@szandormaradiaga4934]

Does anyone else think the art pieces they show through out are just plain awesome or is that just me?

[@themaximus144]

As someone whose only 30 minutes into his first foray into Nietzsche (beyond good and evil audio book), this was a very helpful video in understanding the man who wrote what I've been listening, and re-listening to.

[@jamespotts8197]

Thank you for this insight into Nietzsche's concept of how morality evolved, not in direct proportion to our own cognitive development, but as a weapon of the " weak", "the heard", "the slaves". Fantastic video, and an in-depth analysis of the original meanings of "good"/"bad", "good" and "evil" as being translated from their original definition in the Greek language, to our modern concept. This very distinct idea shines light into Nietzsche's brilliance as a Philosopher, furthermore motivates me to take an even deeper look into Nietzsche's concepts, writtings, and theories. I am always looking forward to the next video!

[@dlon4539]

James Potts ideologies are weak or strong to both the object and the subject, but significantly will always appear real to both... Ref. 3 little pigs etc.

[@jamespotts8197]

@@dlon4539 Thank you for your reply, being "new" to philosophy, but definitely a dedicated student, I am not sure about the meaning of your statement. Please elaborate more. Thanks.

[@TheRaveJunkie]

It is pompous drivel, simply disregard it.

[@pascalfuchs4406]

Thank you for this very well prepared video! It is sometimes difficult to find time for profound ideas and inspiration to rethink the usual in this fast moving world. Your format inspires me to share such ideas with others and bring philosophy into our daily lives. I think your way of presenting such important ideas will be part of a new movement in philosophy to give us a reflective perspective on developments of the future. Due to the changes in technology and its impact on society it is crucial to care about those fundamental questions how we developed our society, our morals, and our values. I hope we can bring many more people to think in those critical and reflective ways. It will have a crucial impact on how our future society will develop. Thank you for your contribution.

[@jamespotts8197]

Very well written statement, I also share your love of philosophy and see philosophy as the "true path" in the ongoing, neverending development of humanity. Philosophy is needed now more than ever, especially for our youth. To which I see their availability of concepts that they can "model a sense of reality" on, are so egomaniacal that it is not surprising how "statistically", our youth are far below average in all of the subjects that give insight and build character in a human. Well below average, "globally" in math, science and basic literacy in general. The most prevalent concept for our youth is to model oneself (and this is due to the popularity of hip-hop, gangster rap) after individuals who generate income, no matter what the consequences are to the social fabric of America, to define one's "manhood" in " bedding" as many women as possible, not caring about fathering their children, and to have no thought whatsoever as to being a civically minded person, environmental issues......etc. the list is endless. I never underestimate the power of philosophy, and the social sciences.

[@drama_rama_]

I couldn't agree more. I simply worry what if these discussions don't occur. Where will we end up?

[@milaknowslight6307]

Thank you for this video! You have a very pleasant voice to listen to, so I could actually absorb the information! Helped alot :)

[@LogicGated]

One of the most misunderstood philosophers, always love watching video essays on Nietzsche.

[@ivanbenisscott]

This channel deserves way more subscribers

[@Dontwannaknow44]

Phenomenal video. Please continue to elucidate Nietzsche writings and thoughts. You guys do a great job of representing Nietzsche neutrally.

[@mementocatharsis9372]

Good god man! Did you just use the word elucidate? I literally just discovered the entomology of that word seconds ago. Your post was 7 months ago. What does this mean? Nothing! Wow!

[@OniDasAlagoas]

"Neutrally" O heavens.

[@FUXYOOBONERZ]

Anyone have a source that I can use for a paper that exemplifies this videos interpretation? Plz halp

[@joannasott5675]

Super clear thinking and creative interpretations..stunned you are so young to be thinking so classically and thoroughly :)

[@alijibran2973]

One of the best videos on Nietzche that I gone through

[@terrifyingtwinkie8212]

I know this comment is a bit late, but this was extremely helpful to understand this first essay as I'm currently reading all of them for a class

[@xxx6555]

You did a pretty good job. Why not continue to produce videos on the 2nd and the 3rd of the Genealogy? Looking forward to them!

[@ThenNow]

2nd essay coming up soon!

[@HxH2011DRA]

It's funny how Niet-chan's #1 stans are those who misunderstand him the most

[@godwantsplastic]

The Hunter x Hunter 2011 Dickriding Association it’s funny how sweeping generalities reveal emotional as well as intellectual inadequacies. “The hunter” pfft ok... another carnivorous cow!

[@HxH2011DRA]

@@godwantsplastic I agree, which makes it all the more ironic and consequently funny that you generalize me without even checking to see if my name is a reference to a show perhaps? XD

[@nelsonphillips]

@@godwantsplastic Oh dear. hook line and sinker. With the statement "i didn't generalise anything" suggests that you left irony back in 1994. Niet-chan, oh dear...... time to brush up on you memes.

[@drama_rama_]

@@godwantsplastic that was amazing

[@toomanydrugsinmysys5414]

Think it might be time for you to brush up on you grammar and spelling, you grammar doesn’t seem to pass the 5th grade threshold.

[@TheConqueror009]

Great summary.

[@edoedo8686]

Love the reading...

[@jasonmiddleweek1509]

Good video . Thanks. A sense of uneasiness with US politics at the moment has brought me to Nietzsche to try and help make sense of what might be going on. I guess that is where philosophy is so powerful; to help one make sense of the world and live with more satisfaction.

[@mustafa.ib.rah7]

This was a great (Essay) on the true understanding of the topic. 🙏🏾

[@emperorlelouch5696]

Interesting. I really like this

[@valeriaa352]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@harumanalphaessence3593]

Valeria Andrade God is not dead and I can explain why

[@WestVision]

@@harumanalphaessence3593 did you even watch the video

[@marcelacanetti]

love your videos (:

[@ThenNow]

Thank you! :)

[@rizom]

Great video! Please reference the sources for the quotes

[@NobleAristotelian]

I’m glad I found this channel. It deserves more subscribers for sure! Great channel! Found you through cuck philosophy!

[@ThenNow]

Great to hear, thank you!

[@keeperofthecheese]

"kakos" means bad in Greek? I wonder if that's where we get "cack" from, like "cack-handed"

[@samudrakonwar3163]

Wowwwww...the channel PHILOSOPHIZE THIS should also be experienced in conjunction with this wonderful lecture 🙏

[@santifaslounge]

Thank you 🙏🏾

[@bevilhive]

Sweet!

[@swagpeach9850]

I watched this at night with the lights turned off and scared the shit out of me

[@_the_Necromancer]

Lol 🖤 why

[@mattgilbert7347]

A synthesis is what is required. That's the essence of "Beyond Good and Evil".

[@alfredosuarez1430]

What a good video, damn!

[@romanski5811]

"Plain" or "simple" means "schlicht" in German, not "schlecht". Though they are similar and related to each other, especially since "schlecht" arose from "schlicht".

[@matthewscott9376]

Brilliant - thx.

[@ClosetedPlatonist]

What are the limits of his master morality? At what point does he put limits on attaining such morality and how does one pursue it without becoming a completely selfish hedonist? Sorry if I misunderstood I’m relatively new to all this:)

[@Kalanicoe]

But is it the values of someone that make them successful or healthy necessarily?

[@iAkOu1]

Fantastic intro

[@ThenNow]

Thank you Kira!

[@satnamo]

Every one speaks his own language of good and evil. He invents this language for himself in custom and tradition. What is good ? An increase in power- Power itself. Self mastery is das ultimate form of power. Will Zur Macht

[@noahwallaker9596]

I love how supportive the comments are for your video, you truly did a good job. But I was a little disappointed to find the comments absent of question and argument, especially since that's what Nietzsche was trying to inspire. I'm not crazy smart, but I'd like to start something if anyone is interested in replying. I can't help but wonder, how could Nietzsche have the brilliance to ask the questions that lead to the genealogy of morality, and then decide that the powerful - dominating class - strong - version of the definition of good, would be the version of good that suited him best? I believe myself that being selfless is good, but I wouldn't go so far as to put an equal sign between them. Selflessness is more of a symptom of good than it is absolute. Lucifer didn't lie when he said we would be like God. Our biggest fall from heaven is truly our ability to define good and evil for ourselves. I understand how Nietzsche has articulated the origin for the slave definition, especially since the Jews have been the most oppressed race throughout history. They even came up with a name for whatever civilization is currently in power, named after the first, Babylon. But their allegiance to a definition of good surely wades deeper than the result of their oppression. King David, the most beloved man throughout Israel's history, managed to establish Israel as Babylon. But just like all previous, current, and fore-coming Babylons, Israel was destroyed and thrown into exile (yet again). They view power as evil (power being evil, not power = evil), because power puts you in a position where you have no need of God. And needing God is the throbbing heart of the Bible. I know I've lost all of you by now, just by the length of my comment. But, Biblically, you were spot on by saying evil is doing what you want. This naturally opposes what God wants, and will lead you down a road of true despair. I would love criticism and push back, but I urge everyone to not define good and evil for themselves.

[@amsc123]

Good is 'good' till there is no ego and indulgence. Being powerful and weak was like a thesis and anti-thesis, people learn it whatever suits the current situation and place. Non-Jews of Germany may have felt some good as Jews faced hardships 'at that point in time' but later in history, those people felt bad for their suffering.

[@javiercarrera8447]

Nicely explained.

[@stanleygontarski4910]

I'd start with Heidegger's "Why is there something rather than nothing." Talk about first principles.

[@mementocatharsis9372]

Who had nobility was the result of birth. Noble values were born from early philosophical inquiry. Nobles had vast amounts of freetime and were allowed to acquire education for educations sake. These circumstances gave birth to noble values (good vs bad). The "slaves" moral guidelines were likewise build upon their experiences of the world. To much work meant your early death, for example, so we should help each other work to avoid death. The master would say cooperation is good for production. The master lacks the slaves empathetic thought because he lacks the experience of the slave and vise versa. My point is that WE need both moralities and that it was US who discovered them. These people are all just US. Every idea and thought in your head is given to your by your circumstances. Expanding your world is a must. The unexamined life is not worth living but you must be able to examine it properly or you'll do nothing of consequence.

[@mementocatharsis9372]

@Zol z To true. I guess I should say I agree with him about this now that I understand it. Totally his idea.

[@temitopeoyeyemi3362]

I do not think Nietzsche was advocating for master morality over slave morality, rather as genealogy, he is charting the "evolution" of morality and values, and pointing out that they are ultimately man-made, and not divine commandments.

[@temitopeoyeyemi3362]

Also, Nietzsche was heavily influenced by the thoughts of the poet Theognis of Megara on Greek ethics.

[@syppy7416]

thousands of years later, people will still be trying to figure out what Nietzsche was trying to say kind of like Hideaki Anno

[@santifaslounge]

What is the intro song?

[@weirdguy4948]

But at some point aren’t the strong only strong because they are wise?

[@farmpite]

Good video, I just wanted to point out that you probably confused the German “schlecht” meaning “bad” with “schlicht” meaning simple, like I wearing a simple dress.

[@spencerwinston4334]

Cogent, unique analysis of Nietzsche, savant philosopher, the deservedly self-described "..philosopher for the day after tomorrow." Nietzsche attacked the descendent Western effete values, the loaded scales of devious shop keepers masquerading as balanced, measured Socratic arbiters of value and authenticity. Nietzsche achieved this attack with Navy Seal military precision in his front sight focused sniper rifle critique in BGE and TOI, as well as his overall force multiplier outlined in WTP carried out with mountain lightning speed high up in his Olympian perch of the Swiss Alps. Ralph Waldo Emerson may have been Nietzsche's only contemporary equal, a fellow brother in arm across time and space, in the fight to restore instinct and military-like valor for courageous men of the future. Future Nietzschean trailblazers will instinctively long for new horizons, and seek the leading edge of potential in their relentless forward drive to probe the will to power, in all its outer and inner quest manifestations, questioning forever the will to power's ultimate chess-like "end game" and its big why??? in pulsating the energy and Emersonian "immense intelligence" infused in the world drama and vibrational songline of the universe. Thank you for sharing your compelling video with Nietzsche aficionados across the world.

[@dionysusyphus]

Love

[@joelselibowitz1564]

One can deduce from the Then & Now Genealogy of Morals that Nietzsche does not ‘advocate’ the blond beast per se nor blindly favour one hierarchical social expression of what not only historically appears as but dynamically transitions as mutually dependent or ‘binary’ moral normative positions. Rather Nietzsche presents the concept of the ascendant blond beast prominently {for to the reader that is not only open to learning but aspirational: are the beautiful, brave & strong not more easily ‘experienced’ as prominent} if not nostalgically because his own personalized, subjective epoch {as the Dawn awakened & sceptically answered son of a ‘taken too soon’ Good preacher or the yet sickly though monumental idea warrior whose Ecce Homo appears tonic-ally as if ‘Antichrist’} fawns upon the wisdom & worth of slave morality - even as the reflective guilt that it must bare - and as such must be freed from the blind servitude that this absolute value judgment of Good & Evil compels, from the resignation {as actual paralysis of all psychologically authentic action} that comes from not radically questioning why his priestly father died & therefore whether both his father’s moral goodness as well as his own progressive suffering was not in vain. For Nietzsche what is paramount is how can any aspiring to be self-aware individual manoeuvre within the Genealogy {the Anthropology} of Morals? How can any value whose teleology is posited as either a functional utility or commensurate with an absolute meta-objectivity, through the creative vehicle of interpretative relativity, be so subjectively integrated as to not enslave or erase the ‘free thinking’ value laden individual as a moral normative participant. This Genealogy of Morals always entails two apparent binary essences {Good & Evil} that can exist as & lead to present social or future ‘species’ amelioration or degeneration and as such are intrinsically dialectical & relative to the specific social-cultural epoch at hand. What disquiets Nietzsche therefore above & beyond whether we are in the epoch of slave or master morality or that they are viable even as nuanced perversions of one another is whether man can indeed be free to be moral {which is surely the sine qua non of, at least anthropomorphic, morality itself}. The danger to any individual {who Nietzsche insights as recent, as precarious} is not that there is slave or master morality but rather that either slave or master should so socio-politically organise as dogma & so extirpate the freedom of the individual member in its midst to compare, to adopt & choose, that one morality {be it slave, master or unbeknownst hybrid} extirpates in toto the other - thus rendering the hermeneutics of morality itself meaningless to the individual, participating human and ultimately to humankind. Thus, for example, the danger with the Hitler phenomenon is that the individual disappears as ‘Nazi’, that the Aryan Volk fanatically & unquestioningly embodies the master, that the slave is necessarily embodied as the metaphysical & ever fictional Jew {that mere facts cannot disprove} and that the Jew is then annihilated in the real Weltanschauung in order to end that uncertainty, that moral temptation that the duality of Good & Evil confers. What follows then is not the end of the Jew but the end of Morality as a transitional anthropomorphic tool {of being in becoming} itself which requires not only the wave like adaptive malleability of master & slave, the motivating & refining presence of binary temptation but, to Nietzsche most importantly, the self-aware & thus relatively free individual participating, purposing & resonating Morality itself… A key no doubt as to why all too devoted or indoctrinated Crusaders, Jihadists, Jesuits & even Taoists are capable of confounding & contradicting the moral or energy dictums that they are fundamentally meant to serve!

[@godwantsplastic]

Head Light ultimately he offered that man needs to accept his duality and not ascribe his perceived weakness to external sources. He made it abundantly clear that either side of the moral coin when taken as the whole created weakness and that only by reconciling both sides can man know what strength really is. Essentially man devoid of physical strength but equipped with intellectual strength was weak and vice versa. He went the long route in saying that man needs to be strong in body and mind in order to not cultivate weakness among other men and debilitate the species: your neighbors weakness is your weakness... no matter how intellectually strong man becomes he is still dominated by his physical body and if he fails to develop the body the mind suffers. Same as if the physically strong man fails to develop his intellect his physical strength is limited his intellectual capacity.

[@joelselibowitz1564]

@@godwantsplastic It is more than admissible to say that Nietzsche walked in order to think {with the body, especially his pained body, in mind}, in order to temper and mature strength with the clarity of its own weakness - whilst most walk in order not to think, in order to forget their weakness {and thus, in the long run, succumb}. What is also self-expansive is coming to understand how often the most belligerent but brittle of our thoughts are penned whilst physically doing nothing: thus divorcing us from the consequences of both their being wrong and from their enacting…

[@chasereiter4760]

This is what it would sound like if @VaatiVidya made philosophy videos

[@leannwang8208]

Being knowledgeable and wise seems to me not the point, but having the resentment so tremendous inside. Under such biting hatred any people will be forced to be this intelligent, or calculating.

[@realbonix5302]

ok thank you for making this video but someone has to point out how u pronounce christian

[@oscarmoreno2585]

NICE VIDEO!

[@dankthinkeralex5653]

So is it actually wrong to wipe people out or no if that makes you the stronger one or no?

[@ElliottJohnReid]

I feel the ancient Egyptians may have had their answer to the ubermensch in their ethical ideal of Maat. The goal was absolute power with the aim of driving Isfet (evil) from the land. In that sense their power was more cyclical as the greater their power scaled, the more the vulnerable benefited from it

[@alwaysgreatusa223]

Good originally meant whatever served the purposes of survival and pro-creation. But while strength and virility serve these purposes to a large extent, so do other values like compassion, trust, love, and altruism. A strong but selfish person will not get help when he falls and breaks his leg from the people he has bullied and/or refused to help in the past-- instead, he will be the next tasty meal for the hungry Lion's pride !

[@madelinecahill376]

Is it just me or is this video soundtrack just a little bit creepy?

[@katiearbuckle9017]

Hears: Francis Bacon *Stays for a whole video.* Ahhh Philosophy is beautiful.

[@HCadrenaline]

I understand the philologists' comparative method attempt to mine out the origin of good and evil, but I feel like the concepts of good and evil predate Indo-European Languages and aristocracy. Good read anyway.

[@thehummingbird8790]

I love how Nietzsche's philosophical conjectures are all about how morality is a rigid and complicated fiction that holds us back from achieving great accomplishments and gaining a higher status in life. God and religion are all purely mindless fabrications that serve to make us into meek and submissive sheep.The truth is that we should live by our own rules. We should decide what is good for ourselves as individuals. Only then can we be free.

[@soaked189]

Hi, do you know the best way to understand one’s self/search for our values

[@isaacherod5526]

Hey! I like your comment - and accurate summation of Nietzsche's impetus for man. But I wonder, do you think that our freedom comes at the expense of others' freedom? While I dont think its necessarily so, I do think it often tends to be the case. What are your thoughts?

[@redhidinghood9337]

Nietzsche's thoughts are like pure individualism lol. I'm atheist but there are many good prescriptions in the bible (and other religions) for how people should live. Humans are at their core social creatures, evolved to live in communities. One selfish person can advance inside the group, and if the group doesn't have counter-mechanisms for it more people will become selfish and the group unity and cooperation will crumble, and they will be conquered by a more united and organized group, and the ways of the group where individuals are ready to make sacrifices for the common good will prevail.

[@Skylark_Jones]

I don't know but, speaking as one of the "slaves" or equivalent eg cheap labour, "strength" or power in itself is not evil, but how it is wielded: if it is used to oppress those who have nothing, then it is evil. The meaning of words always change over time: if 'good' and 'bad' had a different meaning in the distant past before Nietzsche what did they come to mean in Nietzsche's time? In our time 'good' has a more positive meaning and 'bad' more negative. There is nothing good about the current crop of the ruling classes ie the oligarchs and plutocrats today: they still extract most of the wealth for themselves from poor and ordinary people because they think they're somehow superior to the rest of us and above the law and think they deserve. Maybe they were influenced in some small way by Nietzsche.

[@tomato1040]

All slavery is the result of listening to any one but The God Self.

[@nika7245]

Good is selfless good to others. Defined by upper class. Good strong bad selfless.

[@nika7245]

If poor is oppressed they view the power of their oppressors as evil

[@nika7245]

Wisdom more powerful than strength

[@nika7245]

Ressentiment

[@nika7245]

Limiting power in Christianity to protect week

[@appletreepear]

Everyone's an ubermensch in anarchy

[@SeamusMcFitz-jz9if]

My dog has morals and values. Explain that.

[@jimtomo9207]

So dose my xl bully

[@piyushsharma3233]

Stating the meaning of good and bad in 'present' by taking references and inferences from 'long dating pasts ' doesnt seems befitting . Subjectivity of people at that time differs completely from todays n subsequent to it , will also further differ in a certain future . Idk , but m unable to c a point even discussing such philosophies . Though , i still feel to b able to agree with his theory of questioning the goodness of slave moralities . Bridging the gap , between the two moralities seems the only ansr , but doesnt seem possible , as humans arent that simple.

[@jpmarques7]

The best idea of Nietzsche is also one where he competely fails to understand true spirituality.

[@Ybby999]

How do you mean?

[@tertiary7]

Star Wars Jedi vs. Sith

[@migueladrianvalevelazquez8703]

Zol z meaning

[@cheenu711]

The amount of times his name is used out of context and associated with things (like nihilism) he despised is sad.

[@Wahid_4770]

Whether God is Good?

[@davidashton6242]

Good account, but WHY do you pronounce words like strong as SHSTRONG? There is no sh at the beginning of the word. You presumably don't say shilly rather silly?

[@jryan2552]

The ‘sh’ sound is always there when someone says strong, his is just louder and more noticeable, which may be the result of his accent. Besides that, does it even matter?

[@CesarSanchez-ey5tj]

Bro what, "Power" is not a Sin in Christianity

[@thecouchtrevor_sam]

no but rather how you use it determines if its a sin. Its like money, money isnt inherently bad but its how you use it.

[@recs8564]

One can see how easily the Nazis exploited Nietzsche's philosophy.

[@tannerhagen774]

When I read Nietzsche I can’t help but notice a lot of his criticisms of Christianity can be directed toward radical leftist principles such as establishing “equal playing field”. Christian morality as “anti-nature” can be applied to many ideas of the left from my understanding, and I was hoping someone well read on these topics can describe how an anarchist or other would answer.

[@mattjmjmjm4731]

A lot of left anarchists and socialists like Theodor W. Adorno takes ideas from Nietzsche. Both the left and right love him.

[@daddyleon]

*+Tanner Hagen* I think the most pressing point is that we all seem to still believe in these Christian value to some extent - the slave morality. The left is just more consistent, principled, brazen about it. Even the hard-core capitalist says that they think their system will ultimately be better for the 'little man', that it will trickle down. That it's just a matter of the hard-core capitalist's honest but harsh-sounding efficiency vs the left's soft/compassionate but misguided inefficient and wasting methods. Whether or not they actually believe it, or they use that language to justify it while they don't care - that is another, and hard to truly find out.

[@tannerhagen774]

I can see how both sides can have affinities with Nietzsche, but how does the left square his criticisms, which I consider to be hitting the heart of what is so appealing of the leftist ideology? Of course one does not have to accept all of one's philosophy, but there should be at least someone from the left that has answered this aspect of Nietzsche's writings. Like Adorno, a difficult writer for me to read, seems to appreciate Christianity for its ideals by its ability to help with the struggle against capitalism. Nietzsche is obviously against this idea of Christian morality (with full understanding the death of God can be read as a dangerous thing that may lead to a type of nihilism). Someone can correct me here too, but Nietzsche uses the term nihilism with different shades of meaning, where I believe he referred to Christianity as a kind of nihilism(if memory serves), therefore can one not interpret certain types of communist and anarchist as nihilistic?

[@daddyleon]

*+Tanner Hagen* Sorry I don't quite get your question: "how does the left square his criticisms", why do you think 'the left' agrees with him? If they don't, there's nothing to square, just something to dismiss. Nietzsche used etymological and other 'evidences' to get his genealogy rolling, it's not as if there's a big chest full of undeniable physical proofs of where we get right/wrong, good/evil, etc. My confusion is compounded by your focus on merely 'the left'. Unless you mean to suggest that 'the right' sincerely just cares less about people, Nietzsche's points should hit them just as hard. After all, _the right's_ economical povs (like trickle down economics) isn't preached because: "we just want to get rich by duping the poor, and fuck them paupers too! Muahaha". No, they say their programs are just factually, better, more efficient than those of _the left_ in the common goal they share: helping society be better, lifting the poor and doing so structurally and not for as long as the subsidies last. While you see some strong parts of left people think that this is exactly what _those right wing assholes_ mean to do (getting rich of the backs of poor people and not giving a damn about them), not all do, and the right doesn't say they do.

[@tannerhagen774]

I see what you’re saying, and I agree. I don’t want to come off as saying “the right” does not care nor do I consider myself a radical leftist, but I’m curious if radical leftist have a response for Nietzsche when I see his criticisms directly opposed to their whole idea of how society is composed with certain flavor of Christian principles. Let’s say Nietzsche considers anarchism and communism life-denying, nihilistic, against what a human is, based on his genealogy, how does an anarchist respond to this? This is my question and this is how I interpret Nietzsche, and if it is just dismissed by radical leftist thought I would be a little disappointed.

[@celestialteapot3310]

If you think the welfare system is based on compassion, you have either never experienced it, are a complete fool; or possibly both.

[@MattarKevinCosenza]

Care to elaborate? I want to agree or disagree but I don't get your point

[@celestialteapot3310]

Mattar Kevin Cosenza Visit a foodbank.

[@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676]

@@celestialteapot3310 ?

[@lordtains]

Nietsche hated antisemitism. He thought is was moronic. (See Kaufman's work)

[@Br00rzzzonn]

Good video, but Superman is just wrong! OVERMAN. Übermensch.

[@alwaysgreatusa223]

Actually, if you are going to do a thorough history of morals, then you would have to go back to the time before there were any upper-classes, or, any classes whatsoever -- not in the communist sense of a classless society, but, rather, in the primitive sense of a classless pre-society, or the state of nature !

[@mitchellkato1436]

The Good is what sustains the World. The Evil is what will destroy the World. (This is the metaphysical ethics). Then there is good, the act of what is beneficial. The evil is against survival. And there are acts and beliefs that are neither good nor bad. And in this realm of neither good nor bad, we have culture.

[@xandaartheart6577]

such poisonous ideas

[@tangerinesarebetterthanora7060]

The way you should use Nietzsche's philosophy is like a venom you inject little by little into your bloodstream until your immune to the worlds bullshit moralizing and virtue signaling.

[@alwaysgreatusa223]

Nietzsche is unknown to himself, this 'knower', even to himself, and for good reason -- Nietzsche is dead !

[@rsgamer-gy5ey]

Nietzche was cringe

[@tangerinesarebetterthanora7060]

No you're just uncomfortable when faced with truth.