Great series. I am currently reading your book, but as a philosophy layman I really appreciate these videos as a guide. The ideas are pretty heavy, but I find that they make more sense than not. Your theory that pop culture drives culture in general is something that I also really gravitate towards. Keep up the good work and I look forward to more. Thank you.
@@sunset-inn He has two books, I was referring to his book on Nietzsche. It's pretty much a look into the evolution of philosophy that led to Nietzsche and an exploration of his ideas. It's dense, which means I have had to read the same passages multiple times.
Great video, but in my opinion Zarathustra doesn't say that we should focus on our greatest virtue permanently, what he says is that we should develop it until we have it in abundance, and once we have reached that point, we should abandon it to make way for the next one. "Is it not the heaviest thing for the soul to turn away from our cause when it celebrates its victory?". The sage preaches the opposite, just as you say, he wants you to have all the virtues as that will help you to be satisfied with yourself, but also, he wants you to have no more than is necessary in any virtue, because that could fill you with pride.
This series is simply excellent. Having tried reading TSZ and not being able to see through the poetry, it has helped me understand just how remarkable this work is. Thank you. We see here that the wise man avdocates "Honour to the government, and obidience, and also to the crooked government! So desireth good sleep. How can I help it, if power like to walk on crooked legs?". We also see that Zarathustra is opposed to the wise man in that he teaches that life should be more than simply escaping suffering. I'm just wondering, then, what Zarathustra would advise to those who like under a "crooked government". Or, more generally, what is the Nietzschean approach to someone who's potential is permanently limited by an arbitrary power they cannot topple?
