This man loves teaching so much that during lockdown, he starts making KZfaq videos to teach people he doesn't even know or isn't paid by just to teach.

I wish my lecturers were as invested and passionate as you are.

I love Nietzsche and agree wholeheartedly. Thank you again for these lectures; this one truly is a work of beauty.

I'm a Christian, and I find Nietzsche to be very compelling. Not sure why. He teases me and makes me dig. We all need great thinkers from history to dig at us and keep us going. This channel should have 100 K plus subscribers ... give it time.

Thank you. One of the best lectures on Nietzsche I have witnessed.

When I mentioned to an academic aquaintance, now not, that to me Nietzsche reinterpreted ancient philosophy which I didn't study, he said I have to read the original source! There's no need, I replied, Nietzsche's done that for me.

I have been waiting for this one and had my alarm bell set to go!

Thank you professor. It's always a pleasure to receive a lecture!

beautiful message at the end. thank you for delivering it to us with passion

Thank you so much for posting this! Please continue your amazing work!! I've learned about Nietzsche more in this 30 min video than all other videos around the internet.

Bravo more please you are awesome!🕊🦋

AMAZING VIDEO! subbed and liked well done

Thank you so much for this very interesting and detailed lecture on Nietzsche!

Thank you so much for everything i’m a 15 yr old struggling and failing school but philosophy is always there for me and so are your videos, again thank you so much much love

Oh my, thank you for posting this. Nietzsche is the cool uncle I never had

Very much appreciate your efforts, thank you for aiding me prioritise my reading.

I’ve watched Dr. Bonevac’s videos esp the analytic tradition series for a few years now convinced that he excels at his trade. And I fully agree with emmereffing. Now it occurs to me that he is a sublime genius combining the art of rhetoric via masterful tone of voice and use of crescendo with factual distillation. His memory is outstanding and his in-person “live” lectures do not follow any reference to written notes. Thank you again Dan Bonevac!

Thank you!!!!

Excellent summary.

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One of the best 30 minutes of my life

Thanks!

One if the best videos on the subject that I’ve seen. And I’ve seen many. Thank you! I’m wondering which specific book these quotes are mainly drawn from?

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We have to love the truth. When we do, we will seek it and when we seek it we will find it. And the truth will set us free.

I once heard someone characterize Nietzsche as a poet rather than a philosopher. That made him easier to understand and appreciate for me.

The problem with relativists is they always end up talking as absolutists.

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Huge fan of your videos, you're an extremely engaging speaker. Is there any way we could get these in podcast form? I would love to be able to access your work on a platform other than youtube.

Hi Professor, thank you for the amazing lecture. Could you make a video on Schopenhauer?

For some reason, this feels a bit close to Robert Brandom after reading A Spirit of Trust, with the only difference being Brandom makes it so that our constructions are the basis of a metaphysics of discourse.

And thus to thus.

I would use this as a companion to Ken Gemes' work.

Somebody get this man a glass of water.

I always like to think of Nietzsche as someone who hijacked his poetic / intuitive / subconscious / Dionysian / creative faculty and, through unrelenting reason / rationality / Apollonian criticisms of its products, transformed it into a faculty which produces a great number of less-biased guesses at reality. That is why he writes in fragmented prose and people always debate over whether he was a poet or a philosopher, truthfully he was both simultaneously but probably less of a pure poet insofar as his poetic faculty was being used for something fundamentally different. He describes this in his method of philosophizing 'with a hammer'. I don't think he ever ventured to understand his entire collection of musings in some complete way, and I think there is evidence in that, insofar as he let himself get carried away with his relativism and remarks regarding the unintelligibility of the world. Though he implies it all the time, clearly, he does not believe or act as if reality or human psychology is unknowable, that there aren't more accurate ways of understanding things, otherwise what would be the purpose of his unrelenting reasoning, valuing and attention to historical evidence? You mention he is a kind of naturalist, and see he is perfectly happy to claim to understand chemical interaction as a cause of human psychology - so in what sense can we really believe him when he says things (chemical interaction) are not knowable (prescribing cause) or that our intellectual insights are a fantasy? You can't, and honestly I think Nietzsche's relativism is more a statement of a potential null-hypothesis in order to illustrate common biases held by philosophers / dogmatists throughout time. Would love to hear a more refined argument for how he would justify his writings or methodology if he believed all approaches to knowing things to be mere fantasy.

@10:06 where's this quote from?

We better approach life and the universe playfully for there is no reality for us to try to grasp and understand.

It seems like nietzche is analysing individuals and their choices and taking into account psychological insights, so what if we add game theory and epistemic foundations of game theory,to nietzche's analysis?

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This would mean that the existentialist idea of meaning to life is just a form of superstition. Only a way to cope with our mortality, just like religion. But if naturalism takes hold of the personal ideology, it leads to lack of any meaning. Could there be a way out of this without letting go of naturalism? Or must we always base our concept of truth in theism?

Happiness is "superficial"?

It bothers me that the ppl Ive only ever related to are Nietzsche, Freud, Henry Rollins and Bukowski. I have a strong allergy response to existence and the ppl in it.

Few can inspire like Nietzsche; few can mislead like Nietzsche as well.

if there is no universal truth so why and how should one believe in this sentence at the first place because saying that there is no truth is itself a truth... or a sentence that identifies what is truth..... m confused🤔😶

The claim "there are no absolute truths" bothers me. If that was true, then the claim in itself would be subject to change from "there are no absolute truths" to "there ARE absolute truths." The sentence is killing itself. It seems as if Nietzsche and Hegel are truly saying "there are no absolute truths, except that there are no absolute truths." Thus, even under their reasoning, at least one absolute truth must exists in order to point out the absence of it on all other truths. So what reason do we have to believe that only one absolute truth exists when no other can? I don't understand.

Clearly he’s right about the limits of epistemology being the limits of our world, (as if an objective perspective makes any sense anyway) but whose epistemology? I wish Nietzsche thought more on empiricism, and how meaning can be made by subtracting the differences between various careful experiments - isolating variables, and creating causal arguments. Clearly we can’t leave the cave, and just as well must trust in the authenticity of others as ourselves, but nevertheless there is much science to be done! Would have loved to have shown Nietzsche a helicopter. Is it good? Is it evil? It’s certainly beyond such, and as he might hopefully agree, in terms of its purpose, it works!

Are you religious? Just wondering

Ought is just an "is" too weak to show itself for what it really is.

The was REALLY funny!!!! Nietzsche is dead, God, 1900!!!!!!

To discard Ik or to adopt FN lacks intelligent design and should not be suggested. I return

To be human is to be a storied creature. History tells us we have always been embedded in myths, archetypes.... We don't make our own stories and it's arrogant to think we do. What a sad outlook and a sad and lonely ending to such an intersting thinker.

Nietzsche is an anti philosopher. If you perceive him as a philosopher you’ve misinterpreted him.

The Greeks decided how to get from is to ought: democracy.

We have to love the truth. When we do, we will seek it and when we seek it we will find it. And the truth will set us free.

We have to love the truth. When we do, we will seek it and when we seek it we will find it. And the truth will set us free.