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Good stuff dude. This approach to viewing Nietzsche needs to be emphasized more. People who whine about postmodernism but simultaneously claim to uphold Nietzsche (who in many ways paved the way for "Postmodern" theory) are philosophically illiterate. Also love the White Bat Audio music

He’s legitimately one of the best writers I’ve ever read. His writing is so good. I don’t know much about philosophy, but it’s rare to read a philosophy book and be blown away by the writing

Wow! Right from the start, EP hits a home run! 0:49 “This hermeneutic of suspicion that Nietzsche is throwing out, is that Christianity, while presenting itself as a religion of love and compassion and tenderness, is a mask of hate, and fear, and another form of power.” My sentiments exactly!

The Peterson misreading of Nietzsche never gets old to me lol

I love the decorum in this video, also I hope you cover Michel Foucault more in depth in the future to see where that rabbit-hole goes. Keep up the good work!

Have you heard of the works of Georg Lukacs (The Destruction of Reason) and Domenico Losurdo (Aristocratic Rebel) on Nietzsche ? I’m sure you will find them very interesting !! Thank you for all your hard work, enlightening and beautiful at the same time as usual. It is very funny to me how almost every reactionary today uphold Nietzsche and denounce what they believe to be Marxism, Post-Marxism, Post-Modernism, Post-Modern-Neo-Marxist (since they don’t know the meaning of any of those words) because they think that there is a direct link between Marx and philosophers like Foucault or Deleuze when in reality those same post-modern philosophers rejected Marx in favor of new interpretations of Nietzsche thoughts. And yet the links between them are quite obvious to me : rejection of morality, rejection of meta-narrative, rejection of modernity in favor of a « revolt against the modern world »

Excellent. It was good to hear some of your criticisms of Nietzsche too, added depth to the whole vid.

Love, how you don't hide Pills as an inspiration for your style and targets. 5mins in and I already sense a "kill all priests" vibe

Brilliant!!! Such a great primer amazing references in the visual symbology and I appreciate you bridging the Marx gap here too with the elementals of Nietzsche . This is THE video essay to watch before you try to get into headier stuff. Well done truly

another banger as always. Nietzsche is so fascinating to me, I definitely need to read more of him. I think he's more compatible with emancipatory goals than we might realize.

Great work! Loved the more humorous approach. Very Dionysian. One misconception about Nietzsche that botheres me the most is the view that his tone was uptight, humorless, bitter, resentful or to put it in Nietzschean terms, English. (the incel vibes). Despite his pessimism and seakness he was at moments very much a dancing star. His life affirming simply was not of the moralist kind, so in his ruthless criticism he appears resentful. His intention was to be at moments a Satyr, a Diogenes of his time and despite his admiration for Naloleon and Bismark, he was far from a brooding edgy right wing icon that people today see him as.

Love the background music! It would be awesome if you use it for your future videos as well. It makes it more dynamic and easier to follow, imo.

You're work is so insightful and your videos are so well made

Your work in this videos is something really stupendous, thank you so much for this. From a philosophy student to another

Been reading, rereading Nietzsche since 1976-79. After 13 countries, 43 states, 50+ jobs and 45 years, he becomes TRUER by the month!❤

Nietzsche appeals because he represents of a sort of perfection and cleansing of the intellect, which extends temporally to cleansing history and the future. Obviously, the way I frame this tells a certain story as if taken literally, which it was, leads to less than perfect results.

"God is dead, and we are the ones who have killed him, though the light from this event has not yet reached us" is one of the most NECCESARILY misunderstood quotes, in whichever uncertain context its taken or given in. In fact, I doubt that the truly and poignantly full realization of the possible nature of its meaning has yet to reach us, either.

Nietzsche is a profoundly esoteric writer who uncovered the secrets of the eleusinian mysteries. His entire philosophy is based around initiating the reader.

great video! what is the song name at the very intro?

Nietzsche never ceases to be profound. Great video and love love love the 80s aesthetic!🤘

I feel I’ve caught the KZfaqr brain fungus when I imagined a video called “Downton abbey: a Nietzschian analysis” I noticed a sort of class distinction of morality. I haven’t read enough Nietzsche to fully explore this idea and whether it would actually be a Nietzschian analysis. I have too large a backlog of books to get through to add more books onto it atm.

Every person ultimately decides what is good or bad for him. He might have been taught as a child that something was bad that he finds to be good for himself later in life -- thus a conflict within him potentially arises between his upbringing and his experience. But good and bad are ultimately grounded in life, and moral rules are not simply rules for controlling the weak slaves, any more than they are merely rules for controlling the strong masters. There is no such thing as 'slave morality' and 'master morality' any more than there is such a thing as 'the social contract', or some person living at the North Pole named Santa Claus ! Morality is a thing sometimes enforced and often abused by the strong. But its real origin is in the need to limit an unbridled human freedom that would ultimately lead to social chaos and the destruction of the human race -- not by some punishing god, but by that self-destructive animal called 'man'.

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it's just nietzsche, he says - listen here, u ! - Gotta say, loving your visual experimentation in this one, there's some truly trippy overlayering action going on here and I appreciate it

Great video. At 14:00 you state Nietzsche is interchangeably right-wing and left-wing. There is no difference between the two political extremes. They both employ the same techniques and violent mindset. One uses race conflict. The other uses class conflict. Other than that they are the same.

I wouldn't mind seeing more of this "silliness", even in less fittingly themed videos.

And, yet, in the end, it would be absurd for Nietzsche to ask us to judge his views not in terms of their alleged truth-value.

If modern justice is unjust, what is just? What is good? If morality is a societal construct, it seems good and evil are subject to being determined by the loudest voice in society. While current trends in postmodern critical theory may reverse the aristocratic determination of justice and morality, it seems to have the same paradoxical consequences Nietzsche argued was problematic. The values of the minority group will be subjugated to the postmodern critical theorists. Would it not be the same paradox Nietzsche so diligently labored over? Would it not reason then that rather than morality, justice, good, and evil being a social or societal construct that these be determined by a source external of the individual, collective, or state?

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Amazing video thank you very much

We are not (yet!) modern (Modernity is the fundamental empirical realization of liberty/equality/solidarity (to use a more gender neutral term compared to "fraternity")). So how can we have moved beyond modernity, when we haven't realized modernist dreams.

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1:37 why have i never seen this 💀

Idk when this started but there’s this huge amount of content about either Nietzsche or Carl Jung by ppl trying to claim them as x or y. And in our extremely politically divided times, it seems as everyone is trying to claim them. Nietzsche totally is a sort of proto-postmodernist but not in the way we understand the concept today. It’s more about nihilism and while many later writers came of as relativistic, Nietzsche wasn’t. He saw his mission to make the coming “nothing” or nihilism from annihilating the human spirit. Nietzsche did despise Christianity but he was also aware of its stabilizing effect and saw the coming chaos of a bunch of idiots with no God to keep them in line. Nietzsche himself was consumed with anxiety over this issue, not that he had any love for Christian belief whatsoever. He actually went to seminary before he studied philology. He felt he debugged that crap enough and was done with it pretty early on

What’s the chant at 4:59?

Like Rousseau, Nietzsche approaches philosophy more as a romantic than as a reasoner -- indeed, so much so, that he would deny even the possibility of a reasoner who did not have some ulterior motive beyond the love of wisdom (see, for example, 'On the Prejudices of Philosophers' BGE). Also, like Rousseau (see 'Discourse on the Arts and Sciences'), Nietzsche is almost an enemy of philosophy -- at least, any philosophy that would place more value on truth than mortal, earthly life itself (such as Platonism, for example, in which it is supposed to be better to die than to live, for only then can the immortal soul be completely free of the irritation and the interference of the burdensome body, and then know for certain the truth of the eternal Forms by means of pure reason). While I am not a supporter of Platonism, myself, there is surely more rhetoric than there is reason in Nietzsche. Again, like Rousseau, he doesn't have any real arguments to make his case; instead he has merely bald assertions, suggestive comments, and striking metaphors. Philosophy with a hammer ? Really ? ...Yes, Zarathustra, and the fool also attempts to drive in nails with the end of a ball-point pen !

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Nietzsche's view of morality is only slightly less superficial than is the modernistic/Judea-Christian based view he criticizes.

Lol, Peterson is the MCDonalds of Nietzsche Quotes. Everyone that has read the actual books knows, that Peterson either hasn't read them or didn't understand a thing

Dude the whole "Georges Bataille and Michael Foucault are in the middle of a bdsm scene..." thing totally caught me off guard lmao. Speaking of Bataille, do you know enough about him to do a video?

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keep forgetting to watch this :(

I think its best to think of Nietzsche as a critic rather than a philosopher. Because he either lacks or makes almost impossible to understand a coherent whole that encompasses his philosophy. People take Nietzsche so seriously, in how they think Nietzsche has a solution to the problems of the death of God and the last man. He doesnt, or if we’re being less charitable, he’s sympathetic to ideas like warmongering, social Darwinism and Machiavellianism. I know a lot would disagree with me saying things like no he’s a life affirming philosopher or that the antidote to these difficult questions is becoming the ubermensch. But i invite you to show me where Nietszche gives a coherent alternatives to these two problems, without resorting to warmongering, social Darwinism or Machiavellianism.

At 3:42 you have a picture of Hume, yet nothing you say around this time applies to his philosophy. cringe, myguy

Did you read with your eyes closed?

Hume was Scottish not British lol

A plumber's or an accountant's life does not really matter when they give you advice on how to live. We go to them to have faucets fixed or taxes done. But ... when we go to a philosopher to hear his advice on the meaning of life and how best to live it, then we look to his own life as a model of his teachings. Nietzsche fails.

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You claim that others miss Nietzsche's point at the same time missing it yourself. You criticise others for their 'shallow' analyses at the same time not even being shallow yourself. Your are just a mirror image of the far right. Nothing can come from your hands undistorted by ideology. But I can understand you - it is hard to actually present something when you have an ideological axe to grind.

C'mon, laddie... Hume was Scottish!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Who is this "British psychologist" you're attempting to teach us about?

Epoch.... is postmodern. He'll block you if you have different opinions. With love Epoch. I love your videos, just not your arrogance.

No, morality doesn't come from priests, any more than truth comes from liars. Of course, every liar claims to speak the truth. But claiming something to be true doesn't make it true -- just as claiming something to be moral doesn't make it moral. Morality can only come from the necessities of life, otherwise, it could not itself survive. If something has been claimed to be moral, and it has endured for millennia, then there is a reason for its survival. It might be, and almost certainly is, a fact that this moral rule is constantly ignored or broken, yet its very survival indicates a need in the human condition to place a check on unbridled human freedom. If such a check did not exist -- if, for example, murder was not considered immoral, then you better believe there be a hell of a lot more of it than there already is now ! You give people an inch, you know damn well they'll take a mile. "Why should it be a crime to off that a-hole that just cut you in traffic ? It's not immoral, so it's not wrong, so how can there be a law against it ?" Yes, people use 'morality' for power because they use EVERYTHING for power -- it doesn't mean it doesn't also serve a legitimate purpose that ultimately prevents chaos.

What a ridiculous interpretation of Bataille...

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