Nietzsche: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (Part 1 of 8)

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Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as Nietzsche’s more popular writings. You will not find his major concepts in this work - such as the will to power, or the critique of metaphysics - except insofar as those ideas appear in the background, inchoate, unnamed… not yet fully formed. In Nietzsche’s interpretation of the Pre-Platonic philosophers of Ancient Greece, we find the starting place for his later philosophical career. The inspiration for many of those great ideas, can arguably be found in his exegesis of these extraordinary figures from the Hellenic world, from the 6th to the 4th century BC. In this series we’ll consider Nietzsche’s view of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles & Democritus.

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@badrbenkirane2714 3 ай бұрын

Very happy to see someone on KZfaq deal with such a specific text from Nietzsche, it really shows your implication in understanding every part of his work, even the least "attractive" texts at first sight

@untimelyreflections 3 ай бұрын

It’s one of my favorites. The way he writes about the Pre-Platonics is so evocative. He loves them as characters, just as much as for their ideas.

@MM-KunstUndWahrheit 3 ай бұрын

All of Nietzsche's works are inherit by some way or another within his interpretation of the greeks. Nietzsche's popularity embraces his abstract moral outlook, that which encompasses the practical conduct initiated by moral thought. However, the problem with this interpretation of Nietzsche, as I experienced in my arabian region, that it was employed by liberal atheists and socialists to attack religion. However, that Nietzsche is so alienable from the wider Nietzsche for it becomes, dare I say, a mass of slaves. But who knows, Thus Spake Zarathustra was a book for all and no one, and it just proves him in some sense when many reads him but only few ascend from the dogmatic slumber.

@ItsGettingNearDawn 3 ай бұрын

Your videos accompany me on early morning voyages to work, during weight training and before bed. As someone with a degree in both psychology and philosophy your work is very much appreciated from the bottom of my heart. Thank you

@Eugenia740 3 ай бұрын

Just read this in German for a project on Heraclitus in Ancient Greek! Might be my favorite neitzsche yet! Thank you, I look forward to this!

@Sagnikmay1 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for existing... ❤

@untimelyreflections 3 ай бұрын

You’re welcome!

@BUY_YOUTUB_VIEWS_679 3 ай бұрын

I'm amazed at how you consistently deliver top-notch content. Keep it up!

@odinata 3 ай бұрын

Ooh I must be in the front row!

@untimelyreflections 3 ай бұрын

Willkommen im Amphitheater

@tarhunta2111 3 ай бұрын

I love your content.

@hardwoodthought1213 3 ай бұрын

Been hoping you’d have a deep dive into this work ever since you first posted your series on BoT.

@abbeymaeliam1 3 ай бұрын

Really enjoying all your vids mate, I recommend you to my friends when they’re trying to read Nietzsche. Wondering if you’ve read Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy? And if you’d do a video on it?

@palawanjungledays3099 3 ай бұрын

Grazie mille mille

@aronlazarhargitai8680 3 ай бұрын

I'm very happy to hear someone deal with Nietzsche's view on Pre-Platonic philosophy. It is our great misfortune that his views are barely understood and known. The majority still believes that philosophy is a specialist field with sterile 'experts'. Until now Nietzsche was the last great personality who knew that one can only be a philosopher if he transcends the zeitgeist and history. Today everything is done to make this impossible for all of us. The result us that we have activists and agitators and not outstanding philosophers who could be epoch creators instead of being epoch prisoners. Keep up the good work!!!

@zerotwo7319 3 ай бұрын

someone could also make a playlist with all the episodes!

@untimelyreflections 3 ай бұрын

Already on it! A new Pre-Platonic will come out tomorrow and the next day, then the next four will arrive next week

@liltick102 2 ай бұрын

Realizing how much I can enjoy making stories out of staring at silhouettes

@rebelwithacause5307 3 ай бұрын

Great video, imo a very important and underrated N text. Find his ideal in the pre platonic Greeks and then you can piece together his philosophy.

@SilenzioDiEsistenza 6 күн бұрын

I feel there exists a misunderstanding about Socrates. That he is a dialectician. And therefore a misunderstanding which creeped into the whole history of philosophy. It is itself a form of nihilism. That the cup is equal to the tea. Socrates is just as much a dialectician as siddharta a logical or spiritual teacher. But those who worship them do the most harm, in treating them as such. That the eye in the storm is irrelevant, for the storm is what engages them. The movement, the mind games, which are the most addicting. And sure. When you meet a man of freedom. This upheaves your whole being. It creates a chaos in you. But within that chaos there is a stillness, which cannot be organised, mechanised. The full meaning of the socratic dialogues reveals itself, as Socrates cuts through all the reasonings, penetraties deeply through the fog of self deception. Yet Nietzsche in his courage breaks the cup, questions the order which was created to bind the chaos. In that lays his strength. He does not undermine Socrates. Nor does he undermine Jesus or buddha. Though he lacks that depth, which only krishnurti was capable of as a spiritual successor of Socrates. Though it is the wrong word. Neither is he spiritual nor a successor, but they are made of the same cloth. But the dress is irrelevant. There is a vast distance between Socrates and siddharta. Krishna and Jesus. Mohammed and padmasambhava. Whether one wears the same clothes are creates some collage patchwork of them, it only matters when that same core, that same fragility and vulnerability is reached, as a relevation of total nakedness. I love your podcast dude. Subtle and done with care. Love it .

@OdoItal 3 ай бұрын

Great episode! Which translation are you using?

@untimelyreflections 3 ай бұрын

Primarily Maximilian Mugge, though some sections may be from Tim Newcombe’s translation (I can’t say which, as I didn’t take note of it). Later sections include excerpts from Whitlock’s Pre-Platonic Lectures translation