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  1. 24m ago

    NIETZSCHE Explained: Beyond Good and Evil (part 1)

    Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most important works in Western philosophy. Written in 1886, it represented Nietzsche's attempt to elucidate ideas first written about in Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra). Unfortunately, the book is also very difficult and widely misunderstood. This video attempts to set the stage for a deeper understanding of this seminal work of German philosophy.In this first part, we explore the significance of the title, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, and we introduce the concept of the "philosophical prejudice" which is the main theme of the work. Nietzsche believed "other philosophers" (all those who came before him; notably Descartes, Kant, Plato, Schopenhauer and the Stoics) suffered, unbeknownst to them, from hidden presuppositions. Nietzsche, the philosopher with the hammer, seeks to destroy these presuppositions and lead the charge in the creation of a new philosophy of the future. In this part we mainly discuss Nietzsche's treatment of Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum", "I think, therefore I am" argument. In later parts we will discuss the Will to Power and other Nietzschean philosophical concepts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    NIETZSCHE Explained: Beyond Good and Evil (part 1)

  2. 1h ago

    SCHOPENHAUER: 7 Tips to Become A Better Writer (Improve Your Style)

    DOWNLOAD THE ESSAY: http://weltgeist.tv/stylePlease like and subscribe if you found this video helpful.Schopenhauer is well-known for his clear and lucid writing style, a rare accomplishment in the field of philosophy, and even more rare in German philosophy. What is the secret to his style?Thankfully, he has blessed us with an essay on exactly this topic. In this video we’re sharing the tips Schopenhauer wrote down for us in his essay “On Authorship and Style.”First tip: Have something to saySecond tip: Keep it conciseThird tip: Don’t write for moneyFourth tip: Think before you writeFifth tip: Choose a good titleSixth tip: Form over matterSeventh tip: Find your own voice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    SCHOPENHAUER: 7 Tips to Become A Better Writer (Improve Your Style)

  3. 2h ago

    Why Dostoevsky Hated Napoleon

    Support us on Patreon, get access to exclusive videos:▶ https://www.patreon.com/WeltgeistYTWATCH:▶ Ancient Greece Was a Lot More Violent Than You Think. Here’s Why. https://youtu.be/a4cbNXGOa24OUR ANALYSES: ▶ Beyond Good and Evil: https://youtu.be/WIHXZUltfqk▶ The Antichrist: https://youtu.be/qej1Z8Qzq_c▶ Genealogy of Morals: https://youtu.be/6PUx4cOfFcI▶ Twilight of the Idols: https://youtu.be/YpVr_NEvWYA▶ The Will to Power: https://youtu.be/He6ZC7ZFBt8▶ Daybreak: https://youtu.be/cOL2z7nuXdA▶ The Joyful Science: https://youtu.be/U0fTBOJ-C_I Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Why Dostoevsky Hated Napoleon

  4. 3h ago

    How to Become a Monster | Nietzsche

    To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/Weltgeist/ . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription.Support us on Patreon, get access to exclusive videos:▶ https://www.patreon.com/WeltgeistYTOUR ANALYSES: ▶ Beyond Good and Evil: https://youtu.be/WIHXZUltfqk▶ The Antichrist: https://youtu.be/qej1Z8Qzq_c▶ Genealogy of Morals: https://youtu.be/6PUx4cOfFcI▶ Twilight of the Idols: https://youtu.be/YpVr_NEvWYA▶ The Will to Power: https://youtu.be/He6ZC7ZFBt8▶ Daybreak: https://youtu.be/cOL2z7nuXdA▶ The Joyful Science: https://youtu.be/U0fTBOJ-C_ITIMESTAMPS:00:00 Introduction03:10 Nietzsche the psychologist09:40 Nietzsche the Greek25:01 Into the abyss30:44 A psychology of the future42:23 Nietzsche and cruelty52:50 Zarathustra speaks"He who fights monsters, should see to it that he doesn't become a monster himself. And if you stare long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."This is one of most famous yet mysterious quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche. What does it mean? In this video, we try to offer an exposition of this aphorism, according to Nietzsche's own dictum that an aphorism is not understood at first reading, but requires an "art of exposition."Nietzsche claims that he is the only psychologist so far who has dared to venture into the depths of the human soul. Western society being so strongly influenced by Platonism and Christianity that we cannot look beyond our naive belief in opposites: good versus evil, truth vs lie, egoism versus altruism.He harkens back to a pre-Platonic view of looking at the world, in the manner of the Homeric Greeks, before Plato and his "Egyptianism" sought to capture Being in neat concepts (ideas) instead preferring a Heraclitean way of looking at things: reality and nature being in an eternal flux of Becoming.Such a worldview would go Beyond Good and Evil and beyond the naive belief in antinomies, and would pave the way for a new psychology of the depths, a psychology that reckons honestly with the dark side within the human soul rather than explaining it away as the result of ignorance or an imperfect representation of some Platonic Ideal, a corrupt copy of a copy of "the Good."No, says Nietzsche, the monster at bottom of many a human soul must be confronted honestly, and reckoned with as part of human nature. Only then will we be able to make way for the coming of the Superman.As Zarathustra says, mankind needs to become more evil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    How to Become a Monster | Nietzsche

  5. 4h ago

    Nietzsche: Why Arguing is for Weak People

    Head to https://squarespace.com/weltgeist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code WELTGEISTSupport us on Patreon, get access to exclusive videos:▶ https://www.patreon.com/WeltgeistYTOUR ANALYSES: ▶ Beyond Good and Evil: https://youtu.be/WIHXZUltfqk▶ The Antichrist: https://youtu.be/qej1Z8Qzq_c▶ Genealogy of Morals: https://youtu.be/6PUx4cOfFcI▶ Twilight of the Idols: https://youtu.be/YpVr_NEvWYA▶ The Will to Power: https://youtu.be/He6ZC7ZFBt8▶ Daybreak: https://youtu.be/cOL2z7nuXdA▶ The Joyful Science: https://youtu.be/U0fTBOJ-C_I Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Nietzsche: Why Arguing is for Weak People

  6. 5h ago

    Why Love is about POWER | Nietzsche

    Support us on Patreon, get access to exclusive videos:▶ https://www.patreon.com/WeltgeistYTMentioned in the video:▶ Genealogy of Morals: https://youtu.be/6PUx4cOfFcIOUR ANALYSES: ▶ Beyond Good and Evil: https://youtu.be/WIHXZUltfqk▶ The Antichrist: https://youtu.be/qej1Z8Qzq_c▶ Genealogy of Morals: https://youtu.be/6PUx4cOfFcI▶ Twilight of the Idols: https://youtu.be/YpVr_NEvWYA▶ The Will to Power: https://youtu.be/He6ZC7ZFBt8▶ Daybreak: https://youtu.be/cOL2z7nuXdA▶ The Joyful Science: https://youtu.be/U0fTBOJ-C_IIn the Joyful Science, Nietzsche notes his surprise in how our culture came to regard love as a sweet, romantic, selfless, self-sacrificial thing. For Nietzsche, true love is actually the opposite of these things: it's about desire, about wanting something for yourself, about not being willing to share, about willing to compete with rivals and to wish for them nothing, and for yourself, everything. He even goes so far as to say that love and greed might be the same psychological impulse, just under a different name. But then how did love come to be associated with selflessness? The answer is to be found in the slave revolt in morals: the powerless, deprived as they were of the pleasures of love, invented an imaginary victory over the powerful: they transvaluated the value of love, redefined it to mean general love of mankind (agape in the Ancient Greek sense) so that now anyone could enjoy the pleasures of love, not just the happy few. Through a long march through our culture (Nietzsche always maintained the slave revolt in morals was a resounding success) the slaves succeeded in taking love, originally conceived as Eros, a violent, lust-filled affair with a tinge of violence in it (just think of jealousy as one of the strongest human emotions) and turned it into Agape, a kind of neutered, general, abstract "love of mankind."The Western, Romantic conception of love is the history for a forgetting of the original meaning of love, and the heart of darkness within it, the human, all-too-human base impulses that rule our existence: the desire for power, domination, competition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Why Love is about POWER | Nietzsche

  7. 5h ago

    Why You Can’t Make Friends | Schopenhauer

    SUPPORT US ON PATREON:▶ https://www.patreon.com/WeltgeistYTSchopenhauer on being alone and how to deal with society:▶ https://youtu.be/eSbaqqDfGxU▶ SCHOPENHAUER'S WORKS:Parerga and Paralipomena vol. 1: https://amzn.to/3pK6xCjParerga and Paralipomena vol. 2: https://amzn.to/3jJa2p0The World as Will and Representation vol. 1: https://amzn.to/3FPGkIjThe World as Will and Representation vol. 2: https://amzn.to/3FT0nFCThe hedgehog dilemma is a metaphor for the difficulty of human relationships.(Schopenhauer’s original is about porcupines, not hedgehogs; Freud seems to have popularised hedgehogs when paraphrasing Schopenhauer in his own works.)On a cold winter’s day, two hedgehogs cuddle close together for warm. But soon their spikes hurt the other. So they separate again. But then the cold forces them back together, and of course they end up hurting each other again.So the hedgehogs ultimately find an equilibrium: far enough to not be hurt by spikes, close enough to be somewhat warm. A compromise that leaves them unsatisfied, but it’s better than nothing.Schopenhauer argues that it’s better to be alone, to be your own source of warmth. While also realising that such is not possible for the vast majority of people: humans are social animals. So he advises us to ‘keep our distance’ (he even uses the English expression.) The video goes a step further by thinking about a possible Nietzschean perspective: seeking intimacy and friendship, knowing full well that hurt might result. We can view the hedgehog’s dilemma as something more than a simple metaphor for human relationships. It’s a litmus test on how a person views life: full of suffering yes, but does that mean we should run from it, or embrace it? In this way it lays bare the biggest difference between Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Why You Can’t Make Friends | Schopenhauer

  8. 6h ago

    SCHOPENHAUER Explained: Aesthetics of Music and Nature (pt. 3)

    In the third and final part of our series on the core philosophy of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, we explore his theory of aesthetics. We highly recommend you watch the previous videos in this series, on both his metaphysics and ethics, before watching this one.Schopenhauer has sometimes been called "the artists' philosopher" because of his lasting influence on art. Art, for Schopenhauer, is a way for us to forget our suffering, even for only a short time. And music was the most perfect means to do so. Lots of artists took Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory to heart and felt emboldened in the pursuit of their craft as a result. We also touch upon his rediscovery of the Platonic Ideas.Watch: SCHOPENHAUER Explained: Metaphysics of the Will: https://youtu.be/i87hX_uznEQWatch: SCHOPENHAUER Explained: Ethics of Compassion (pt. 2)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAeKylqj-Xg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    SCHOPENHAUER Explained: Aesthetics of Music and Nature (pt. 3)
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