The Bible and Western Culture - Nietzsche and the Death of God

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Finally, a lecture which correctly shows both sides of this man: The megalomania and insanity and The master of german prose

[@maghrebforever2012]

I don't think its even remotely warranted to describe Nietzche as megalomanic. You misunderstand the essence of tragic character, something Nietzche discusses in The Birth of Tragedy. The overman represents the healthy, radiant expression of mankind in response to the question of: what do you do in face of The tragedy?

[@anywallsocket]

“What are mankind’s truths but irrefutable errors?” This is a spectacular quote that underlines the philosophy of science. Nietzsche will continue to impress.

[@dedskin1]

Black holes , Dark Energy , Dark Mater , Dark Flow .... , Big Bang , Super Big Bang , Mega Bang , Black Hole Evaporation , Space time curvature , Speed of light . Neutron Stars , Gravity Constant , Theory of Relativity , Special relativity , Quantum Entanglement , AI , , you name it . And things like this just spontaneously being imagined being best payed jobs giving best positions giving best living , is not by chance . All of this is a plan to move mans focus in to Darkness , separating him from his tribe and nation , then from family , then from him self , transgenderism , only when you do that can you call choice between A and B , election , when it is selection , select 1 or 2 , and you don't know which is worse . And in all that chaos a shining light Nikola Tesla , Nietzsche changed nothing , but if he was alive today he would use Tesla AC current , radio , and everything that was born from that down to smartphones , now phones are smarter then their users , that is why they are called smartphones , only a dumbuser can use a smartphone , only stupid man needs Artificial Intelligence . None of this is by chance . Including Nietzsche . Powerful people have a way of destroying you if you don't work in their favor ,and if you do , they promote you .

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Right. It's like Popper well before Popper.

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Brilliant teacher, so articulate. The repeated mispronunciation of ‘oxymoron’ is all the more surprising in that context. A petty point, but it jars for me every time I hear him saying the word!

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[@davidfulton3287]

Another great lecture. The close of "Beyond Good and Evil" beautifully shows the tragic loneliness at the heart of Nietzsche's genius.

[@robertdouglas8895]

Religion comes from the Latin, religio, which means "to bond with God." When we bond with God, we need no theology or morality. Power is what Nietzsche substitutes for morality. It's demonstrated by art or action in the world. When we bond with God, we don't need to prove His power over anyone or anything. It includes love which is unity, not division. By not giving the solution to the wars coming after him. he was saying there was no cure. He left out forgiveness, which is the crux of Jesus Christ's teaching. And we can only truly forgive when we ask God to show us how in every case. That is the true art inspired by God. By finding only fault in religion and substituting his own based on power, he ushered in the World Wars through his influence. Nietzsche was the canary in the coal mine of individual egotism and the belief that science instead of love will bring us to peace..

[@ubet6691]

@@robertdouglas8895 Nietzsche didn’t replace morality with power. I mean, how could he?! It’s a misconception that he disapproved of morality, or goodness. How can someone who preaches nobility be against goodness? What he was against (which he says everywhere in his writings) is reactive morality. He believes that goodness is a natural quality. Nietzsche is a naturalist. This means for instance that a good person does not help others out of pity, but out of nobility.

[@robertdouglas8895]

@@ubet6691 "Egotism is the very essence of the noble soul. " That's power of self over outside power. There is no outside power. There is only one of us here. That comes from love through forgiveness, not egotism

[@ubet6691]

@@robertdouglas8895 I think that is meant psychologically. It merely notes a natural quality, in which sense it is fully accurate and relatable. ”Forgiveness” on the other hand, is a perfect example of what Nietzsche terms reactive morality; that which only may be as a response to stimuli.

[@robertdouglas8895]

@@ubet6691 Forgiveness is acceptance that everything that is in your life is what you put there. You are not ever reacting to an outside world but to the world you have imagined to be against you. The outer world does not exist. It is the ego, the belief that you are a separate body that makes up the imagined need of power over an outside world. It's fighting against an imagined enemy. "We have met the enemy and it is us."

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This is my first time hearing Michael Sugrue. What an amazing speaker. A clear, concise and balanced appraisal of Nietzsche the man and the philosopher. Thank you.

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Thoroughly enjoyed this lecture. Always had trouble correctly understanding and comprehending Nietzche, but after listening to this lecture a few times I'm starting to understand the gravity, importance, and as you put it, the destiny the man himself held in society. Thank you Dr. Sugrue, I am a big fan and forever appreciative of this content.

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There's a comment by his daughter here, he is retired and unfortunately his health is poor.

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I know this video is old. I had this series. Loved his lectures in it the best. I think he did the one on Kierkegaard that got me into him. I do not know Dr. Sugrue's beliefs or worldview but he is a great lecturer. He gives you what the thinker really believed and makes them come alive. He does not ramble about things that do not matter. He is clear but interesting to listen to.

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Sadly he went woke in recent years

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I am reading THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS at the moment, and this clears up and number of things. Thank you for the learned perspective.

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Domain over any entity demands an understanding of that entity, knowing the limitations and needs of that entity, and imposes a moral responsibility over that entity. Empathy is in us for a reason and everything has a cost or a trade.

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I had to spell out "occimeron" before I realised he meant oxy-moron. Otherwise, fantastic lecture as always.

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Be careful, he's very biased against anything that isn't Christian or Catholic centered. He regularly calls for a return to Catholic culture. If you jive with that, then have at it.

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[@clovers-zi5fe]

Very fair and excellent review of Nietzsche, Dr. Sugrue. The problem with Nietzsche is the refusal to acknowledge we are still social creatures--the same with Machiavelli. All great thinkers, but it's the hole in their amoral theories.

[@clovers-zi5fe]

@@Thomas-xd4cx I'm not sure what you mean. He fully "rejects" the idea that humans should be herd animals in "Beyond Good and Evil." In particular, he warns against the herd mentality brought on by Christianity. Because herd mentality brings on herd morality, which prevents one from becoming their own "Ubermensch." As how can one achieve the peak of their individual capacity if their locked into the mentality and morality of the herd that may go against necessary individual values to achieve pinnacle greatness? It's not like Seneca. Seneca warned against mingling amongst the crowd, but accepted we are social creatures. But we should be judicious in who we mingle with. In Seneca's belief, we should mingle with those who will better us, and likewise, we can better them. This is not Nietzche's thinking at all. In his thinking...it's all about "me, me, me" alone to become the Ubermensch.

[@nationalsocialist8382]

He wants leaders to be the leaders of the followers, rather than the followers drowning out any leadership qualities for potential leaders and therefore leading the base life to follow. He is a refiner of thought and courageous in his his pursuit of what, and probably more likely how, consciousness is and it's wielding. He is not of a herd group himself, so herd people won't be able to facilitate his offerings unless they step away from the herd and develop to higher potentials.

[@clovers-zi5fe]

@@nationalsocialist8382 Yes, that is true. It's the positive that one can draw from Nietzsche's thinking in describing the "Ubermensch"; that we are literally capable of so much more than we know, if we just dive into our passions, dive into mental solitude, and strive to the peak of our capabilities. But...if that means doing away with empathy, kindness, pity and compassion toward our fellow man, then so be it. He even tacitly approves of the Greeks at a time when they owned slaves, because should that be suited to the virtues of a slave owner becoming their own "Ubermench," then so be it. This is what I mean, as well as Dr. Segrue, by Nietzche not accepting that we are still social creatures in accordance with science. Not only that, it's a contradiction. As how does one even achieve the pinnacle of their capabilities if they are enslaved? I want to stress that I love Neitzche's work, but there are flaws in his theories. You also have to take into account the man, himself. He wasn't exactly social for various reasons, mentally and physically, yet desired social relationships at times. So even in himself, he was a paradox.

[@nationalsocialist8382]

@@clovers-zi5fe His philosophy seemed to teeter off a tad for himself, that's agreed, and a great configuration in summation of his thoughts by Sugrue here. I like that at least Nietzsche is pointing somewhat in the right direction. He's given people a clue, like Heidegger.

[@clovers-zi5fe]

@@nationalsocialist8382 Oh, no doubt. There is great merit to what Nietzche's saying! I don't want to dismiss that. But like with much in life, there aren't many absolutisms. Another example could be a sports team. The values related to a sports team--still a herd--could facilitate in one achieving the peak of their capabilities. I've never checked out Heidegger's work. I should do so!

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Alan Watts takes 1st prize..but this man is also a master.

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One of the greatest, most accurate, and most concise synopses of Nietzsche. What an incredible teacher, synthesizer, and communicator you are, Dr Sugrue!

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“It is the destiny of the west to be forced to confront their rational capacities.” Amen, sir. Brilliantly put. Unites every major issue of the 20th and 21st centuries.

[@cch312]

Glad I chose to stay. Very good lecture. It explains Nietzsche's place in the modern philosophical realm. So many think in this way actually and it's somewhat scary... The nihilistic and aristocratic behavior... Very interesting!

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Incredible synthesis- thank you!!!

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Thoroughly enjoyed this lecture, thank you Prof Sugrue

[@darylallen2485]

I've never heard anyone pronounce it "ox emm er ron" before. I've always heard it as "oxy moron". Did this stand out to anyone else?

[@nightoftheworld]

It did.. like when people say human “yoo man”

[@quincylee2276]

@@nightoftheworld really? I’ve always heard people pronounce it as “hew muhn”

[@lordtugboat]

@@quincylee2276 give a listen to Carl Sagan's reading of pale blue dot and you'll hear plenty of references to yooman beings. :)

[@donheinsohn824]

Embarrassed to admit that I thought I was looking for a word I did not know, like Oxcimmaron or something. So now I know how totally cool people pronounce oxymoron. lol

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Feeling pretty dumb right now. , Are there a different amount of syllables when it's pronounced like that or is a word always the same amount of syllables?

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[@gspurlock1118]

Wow! I think I need to listen to this a few more times to fully grasp it. I don't like Nietzsche, but that doesn't mean he has nothing to contribute.

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This lecture was much more clear and comprehensive compared to JBP’s, Thank you Professor.

[@punchgod]

JBP doesn’t understand a word of Nietzsche, he takes advantage of the ambiguity of Nietzsche’s prose and adapts it into his established view of contrived neoliberal Christian pseudo-individualism. He’s incapable of reading anything outside of that ideological prism, and for that reason he is the exact sort of coward that Nietzsche despised.

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Absolutely incredible lecture. I’m blown away

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Thank you for this upload!

[@conquisitorveritas]

Would love to see Nietzsche’s facial expression if he could see in which direction art has taken the world after taking over for God.

[@friedcash9815]

Lol yes.

[@marverickmercer1968]

Modern Art regress into insanity, nihilism and wanton destruction/deconstruction of beauty., meanwhile beautiful arts are become commercialize, selling for hourly rate. There are now more beautiful, more masterful, more artistic and technical complex artworks in video game, movies and Magic the Gathering cards than there are in the the most prestigious museums on Earth. The kind of artworks with such levels of mastery over form, perspective, anatomy, lighting and rendering, etc that Old Renaissance Master would gladly sell their soul for, are available for viewing for free on the Internet. Meanwhile "modern art" consist of random children's doodle made of piss and blood are selling for million.

[@martinledermann1862]

@@marverickmercer1968 Movies and video games are also "art" and in fact a much more powerful one, often playing a much more transformative role in human lives than that of the traditional art. The fact that paintings, sculptures, architecture and to some extent also music may no longer be as sophisticated as they used to be and are a sort of an embodiment of post-modern intellectual trends which aim to rebel against anything traditional (the traditional concepts of beauty included) doesn't indicate any supposed fall of the Western civilization as a whole.

[@MM-op6ti]

@@marverickmercer1968 no, a lot of money is made off modern art via money laundering tax schemes.

[@binary]

He's been proven terribly wrong

[@ilikezmonster]

RIP a real one

[@johnmurdoch8534]

Thoroughly enjoy these. Wish I had the ability to be concise this way.

[@Secretname951]

Finally! A Norm MacDonald clip I haven’t seen before! Wow, he’s taking a real long time to set up this punchline, it must be a good one.

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[@rumination2399]

The idea that science ended metaphysics seems Neitzche’s worst vanity and a common one today.

[@edwardrichardson8254]

Great lecture with one exception. He gets Darwin/Nietzsche totally backwards. in fact I think it's where Nietzsche says Darwin is wrong that you see the thought-provoking brilliance typical of the man (I give examples see below). It was a case of philosophy affecting the sciences, not the other way around. I just read Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" and absolutely agree with Nietzsche that Darwinism is Hegelianism, just served up differently. Nietzsche does not even mention Darwin a quarter as much as this professor and when he does, it's to critique him, and I mean on every point. Even the seed for "God is dead" is in "Phenomenology." Darwin had zip to do with anything in Nietzsche and Percy Shelley distributed his "The Necessity of Atheism" long before Darwin and the French Revolution tried to cancel god nationally 20 years before that (in a massively Catholic country and with a civil war in the Vendee over this issue with extreme casualties never discussed in the context of the Reign of Terror). People were grinding an axe for God (literally, w/ priests forced to leave or be executed in the French Revolution and the appropriation of church land) well before Darwin. Nietzsche on Darwinism in "The Gay Science": "That our modern natural sciences have become so thoroughly entangled in this Spinozistic dogma (most recently and worst of all, Darwinism with its incomprehensibly one-sided doctrine of the his struggle for existence') is probably due to the origins of most natural scientists: In this respect they belong to the ''common people"; their ancestors were poor and undistinguished people who knew the difficulties of survival only too well at firsthand. The whole of English Darwinism breathes something like the musty air of English overpopulation, like the smell of the distress and overcrowding of small people. But a natural scientist should come out of his human nook; and in nature it is not conditions of distress that are dominant but overflow and squandering. even to the point of absurdity. The struggle for existence is only an exception, a temporary restriction of the will to life. The great and small struggle always revolves around superiority, around growth and expansion, around power:...:...in accordance with the will to power which is the will of life." Brilliant, and it echoes Hamlet's soliloquy of nature being "rank and gross," an "unweeded garden." And again in "The Gay Science": "Let us take, thirdly, the astonishing stroke of Hegel, who struck right through all our logical habits and bad habits when he dared to teach that species concepts develop out of each other. With this proposition the minds of Europe were preformed for the last great scientific movement. Darwinism-for without Hegel there could have been no Darwin. Is there anything German in this Hegelian innovation which first introduced the decisive concept of "development., into science?" He's probably talking about Hegel's "Philosophy of Nature" but Hegel's dialectic from Phenomenology applies just as well, and it probably imbued everything Hegel wrote or thought. "Ecce Homo": "Other scholarly cattle have suspected me of Darwinism for this reason..." From "Twilight of the Idols": "Anti-Darwin. - As far as the famous 'struggle for existence' is concerned, this seems to me to be more of an opinion than a proven fact at the moment. It takes place, but as an exception; the overall condition oflife is not a state of need, a state of hunger, but rather abundance, opulence, even absurd squandering. Where there is a struggle, it is a struggle for power"

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Greatly enjoyed this lecture, thanks.

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I am perhaps a quarter through all of these lectures. I am certainly going to watch every single one

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So good! Michael are you still lecturing these days? What are you doing with your life?

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Please tell your father that he is admired and listened all over the world (in my case from brasil). I thank him for teaching me so many new ideas, reflections... he is a great scholar but firstly he has the gift of teaching, of speaking in plain words and transmit so much. Thanks again and sending my best wishes for his health, you deserve so much good sir

[@gnawnaiq]

Thank you so much for offering us consolation of philosophy in such a hard time!!!

[@kentuckyproproductions1624]

And yet nietcsche's whole basis apon the thought that God is dead is merely because he says so. He makes the mistake of assuming that God is in the minds of the masses and not the minds of the individual. God lives so long as the last individual believes. Just as the memory of you lives so long the last individual you know or have produced exists.

[@dr.michaelsugrue]

"Well said", said Dad, who almost never says that.

[@Whiskey19841]

“I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity - through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity! I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot. Now I am light, now do I fly; now do I see myself under myself. Now there danceth a God in me.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[@joshnyariki7041]

Nietzsche is only making a sociological remark. His observation is that people had stopped living a life centered on god. Notice he didn't say he had killed god, rather god had died when people embraced a modern centered life which replaced with rationality what was previously based on authority.

[@IsaiaInfamous]

Take your metaphysical fantasies elsewhere, don’t argue with Nietzsche’s philosophy when you haven’t the intellectual capacity to understand what he means when he says that God is dead or even to spell upon correctly

[@kentuckyproproductions1624]

@@IsaiaInfamous ok kid

[@shakespearaamina9117]

The best lecturer ever. God bless you!

[@paulsolon6229]

Good speech, way to go, helps me understand

[@Magik1369]

Nietzsche's nihilism drove him insane. Power is but one characteristic of humanity and Being. It must be balanced by morals, ethics, compassion, and love. These are more evolved faculties and aspects of consciousness. Nietzsche was a deluded nut.

[@isaac8228]

42:23 Not gonna lie, this made me burst into laughter. Nietzsche is absolutely based. LMAO.

[@tylerhulsey982]

Very B&RP

[@dububro]

keyed

[@JustHindiFootball]

Nicee

[@Lmi109]

this is awesome, I already watched 3 45 min lessons and learned a lot

[@brushonfire8800]

Best lecturer i've ever heard Dr Sugrue is gold.

[@DominicMotuka]

"Professor Sugrue takes interpretation of the Dialogues to a new place. It is almost as if these characters were his intimates and he is reporting events as he witnessed them. This is truly excellent work."