Chapter 5.2: Friedrich Nietzsche, the attack on truth 

"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!" - Friedrich Nietzsche

i've been exposed to enough philosophy to know there's no way in hell i could ever debate this or add to it or make any serious contribution without studying for years. the specific details of philosophy, the endless, painstaking semantics are so critically specific that if you don't know what to look for, one philosophy can practically sound identical to another but not mean the same thing at all. it's all fascinating enough just to consider and try to understand.

Great series! Thank you very much for your hard work

Nietzsche is so bold. Philosophy with a hammer! 🔨

Making us understanding complex ideas and concepts thanx..

top work !

thank you!

Thank you professor.

Excellent Lecture!

The truth is clarity. The unknown breeds fear.

very good! thanks!

Nietzsches perpsectivism is so underrated, modern epistemologists still have found no answer to his denial of metaphysical truth-entities.

Very useful

And yet, regardless of any myriad of "language" each of the blind mice may use to describe their "truth" of the elephant, the elephant nonetheless exists.

My survival depends on knowing more than my organism needs to subsist. Thank you Victor and Friedrich that I might be able gaze upon the heavens.

Never heard of this Nietzsche guy, was he pretty popular? what was his youtube channel called or his website? thanks 👍

If we haven't focused to find it, why does that mean it's unattainable?

5:01 Feynman: * *HOLD MY ELECTRON* *

“What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms"

Who is the second philosopher who mentioned after Nietzsche at 6:09?

what about truth is the theory that best explains all the evidence and has the most predictive power ? sure there will never be objective truth but can we maybe get very close ?

So at the end, the argument of truth and foundations. The reality of that is it's an egotistical search for a judgment vs a better understanding. When a judgment is made a benefit can be had at another person expense. ie, I know what reality is and you don't, there fore I'm more entitled than you. So the experience of reality is high jacked by ego and it's imposing of an hierarchy, when that is the choice being made to evoke a tribal power. Or another choice is to not seek power via tribal aspects of language, but instead seek to understand more and know the limits of language and humans ability to remember and logically parse out information.

(4:50). Somewhere else Nietzsche reports this insight as, " 'Truth' is a kind of lie without which a certain species could not endure life!"

anyone who is interested in this should check out Lain McGilchrist, a sort of genealogy of the brain hemispheres' different ways of understanding and operating within the world.

I need to know the TRUTH of how effective that shirt is on a girl

In a way, Nietzsche contradicts himself (as presented in this video), which ironically supports his notion of Truth as a contradiction. ie we have evolved as a species to judge stimuli in order to increase in Power;, and yet he claims - as the post-modernists do - that there is no Truth; only perspectives. However, in order to increase our chances of survival and flourishing, we must make judgements (on truth vs non-truth) that best serve that evolutionary self-interest. Hence: there IS objective truth. And that objective is: the enhancement of the species.

Interesting lecture as all of these are. I am reminded of the exchange between Jesus and Pilate. When pirate questions Jesus concerning the claim that Jesus is a king ( and therefore in challenge to Ceasar) Jesus said his kingdom is not of this world. Jesus told Pilate that he had come to testify to the truth and that all in the side of truth listen to him. Pirate being the prototype Nietzscean replies " Truth, what is truth?". Actually Pikate really wasn't actually asking a question because he defined truth in terms of power when he told Jesus, that he had the power to put Jesus to death. Very Nietzscean. You can read this fascinating exchange in the gospel of John. Jesus clearly personalizes the truth as closely linked with himself. Interesting that Nietzsche wrote a book called " The Antichrist" in which he claimed the title for himself. Very interesting. You might ask the question " Who am I to believe?". But then again you might not. It's entirely up to you.

Running away from a snake does not require language. Teaching a child that snakes are bad and should be fun away from, does. Language only imposes a structure on the world, when that structure had socially co-evolved with a culture in which kids run away from a snake and think sheep are cute.

Nietzsche uses biology as a foundation... what a dope

isn't it sufficient to say that eagles wants to eat the lamb, and the lamb doesn't want to be eaten, those both seem hard to dispute, but both saying that its bad or good that the eagle has eaten the lamb are false claims, cause the idea of good and bad is what is misguided, different moralities are not different perspectives, but different illusions, trying to combine illusions unlike combining perspectives wont get you closer to the truth.

Simplified does not mean in error or not true.

Hate Nietzsche, love Hegel

Nietzsche was right.

I agree with the Pragmatic approach to truth, which is simply the truth is simply whatever side who has the best argument(in a factual sense) It`s easy simply and straightforward so i.e stuff like Math and Biology are objective truths

so, everything is relativistic.

Do basically what nitzche is saying is that what he's saying about truth can also be false 🤔🤔 he doesn't believe the things he's saying himself🤔okayy then