Dr. Darren Staloff, Nietzsche's Perspectivalism and Critique of Philosophy 

I’ve learned more about ideas and history and frankly, life, from these professors in the last few years than in the 40 years before 🤷🏻‍♂️☝🏼🙏🏼 thanks dr Sugrue / Dr Stallof/ Genevieve

This channel is helping my long drives at work. Appreciate it . A freelance epistemologist

A truly wonderful lecture. Nietzche always tends to inspire strong emotions in me (positive and negative) without anything in-between. A truly great writer.

One of the best lectures on Nietzsche i have seen.

Dr. Staloff and Dr. Sugrue, this is Beautiful work. Thank you so much

Excellent lecture. I learnt something I didn't know before about Nietzsche. The last 10 minutes were fantastic. Thank you Professor.

Easily my favorite Staloff lecture so far, and top five among all those I've seen on this channel. Keep them coming!

I've really been enjoying Dr. Staloff's lectures! Easily my second favorite speaker to appear regularly on your channel

Thank you, Dr. Darren Staloff.❤ I participate with joy listening to all of your lectures. What a gift this is allowing us to love philosophy! Undoubtedly, you bring light into our universal thoughts.❤

Dr. Sugrue reminding us that history is cyclic ages like a fine wine 🍷

Great talk. I would've listened for another hour.

Great lecture. Reminds of a Sunday sermon. Good story tellers will never go out of fashion

The fact that these lectures are free is absurd, in a good way! I have learned and found a deep appreciation for philosophy here, than the insides of my classroom! More power to both of you professors!!! P.S. If it’s not too much to ask, I hope both of you conduct more seminars, zoom meetings and what not in the future , with your audience! Once more, I send my regards and admirations all the way from the Philippines!

absolutely adored this talk . will definitely be coming back every now and again

Dr. Staloff is a great speaker and absolutely rockin' that late-80s movie villain hair

He's really good at interpreting nietzaches ubermench, will to power and external recurrence as something more reasonable and sentimental

Does anyone else blaze up to these ? usually I watch these things crossfaded

man this is so awesome to see these lectures! thanks!!

andrew garfield got good points here

Magnificent lectures.

I’m so so happy about this channel; no words can express my excitement when a new uploads arrives

Thanks for adding more perspectives , now I might add more , this is best about neitzsche i have found yet 🙏🏼

Awesome lecture. Thank you for the effort in channeling Nietzsche. So insightful.

Wanting to help people doesn’t make you kind. Nietzsche says that true kindness emanates from nobility; it is ’active’, not reactive. It isn’t something you ’want’ to do for others in order to be considered kind, which is reactive.

Zalatan retired to come here, great lecture

Great lecture!

another beautifully articulated lecture

Excellent channel

Very interesting lecture. Thank you Dr. Stalloff and Dr. Sugrue.

one of my favorite lectures, very grateful

There is something magical about academic environments; thanks for sharing!

Thank you, Dr. Darren Staloff, and thank you Dr. Michael Sugrue.

I love his style

I would have to watch all of his lectures now

🔥 amazing lecture 👏

I would never have thought that Frank Lemmer would made videos like this after he left highschool and that he would change his name to Darren Staloff.

That was a delicious lecture.

Brilliant stuff. I always felt what N needed was a long and authentic hug from someone, possibly a lover who would stick around. I think he was a very lonely person excluded from social circles he really wanted to be a part of.

This was smart to release after the Shopenhauer lecture.

Thank You!

I think i’ve finally found a gold mine within the internet.

Beautiful ❤️

is it my imagination or does Dr. Darren sound just like Dr. Michael ???

cant wait to watch this. theres so much conflicting information about Nietzsche and perspectivism

I heard the intro and for a second and thought"Rick Roderick!" the theme tune has given this guy some credit!

A dog’s life, alpo 3x a day, I am just gonna end it all. Outstanding delivery.

This guy is an amazing speaker. A timeless lecture.

Best Nietzche lecture EVER!!!

I came here to say "If Andrew Garfield became a philosopher instead of spiderman" but it appears I've been beaten to the punch XD

32:00 Nietzsche: “Humans are the only animals that have grown to have a need for a purpose“.

I don't know how this kid is so brilliant, acting the part of a perspicacious professor, old beyond his years

I love at 34:04 when Dr. Stalof turns into Lenny Bruce for 10 seconds

Just fell in love all over again

Really enjoyed this lecture by Annakin Skywalker

Hey can you make a playlist out of his videos please??

Excellent lecture; it has clarified so much of the the Gay Science now that i've listened to it as an audiobook (even with many replays, much of the translation Ukemi uses is still opaque to me).

Darren Staloff is the Garand Thumb of the intellectual realm

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Great thumbnail image

"Richly rewarding", this was, indeed, rather 'is' !

26:54 it's not reasons that turn them against Christianity anymore; it's taste

It's not reasons that influence them, it's taste"

this shit's good.

You can really see how Michael has influenced this man’s style in lecturing!

Anyone get the feeling that Dr Starloff liked to "rock out" in his spare time? 🎸

Socrates' last word was one of the greatest jokes in recorded history. He was a true millennial.

38:50 Dr. Darren: Nietzsche is feminine. 42:10 Final two Nietzschian aphorisms: Aphorism 240: The death of Socrates and Perspectivism The Ubermensche (Feminism trumps Masculinity)

11:45 Sounds like what I hear my teenager and people his age refer to as “NPC’s”

As a Giants fan, I would indeed love to have Lawrence Taylor at my side over Gandhi in a fight.

The video of lecture 1 is stuck on an advert for Doritos and won't play.

Which year was this lecture given in?

yo dawg where is the genealogy lecture, has bro posted that one yet?

Professor Staloff sure was hot back in the day !

Gay science is one of, if not my favorite Nietzsche work. great lecture!

Its all about a bigger player called DNA. WOU!

Glad he grills Kant

Anakin Skywalker if he didn't challenge the high ground:

43:43 - 46:06 ----Yes, I will take it anyway

Just read all the passages about the gregarious instinct, who are certainly decent and affable, yet harbor deep hatred and want to destroy both the ideal & exceptional type.

39:30 - Sounds like misogyny? sounds like?? Professor, you've spun this one around so much, we almost don't recognize the initial topic of the lecture 🙄.

Superficial indeed. Staloff here straightens out a lot of edges ("he has nothing against morals"), gives absurd interpretations (Nietzsche taking the side of the feminine-weak type) and puts N. neatly in the framework of the neoliberal zeitgeist (just remember N.s insults against the English economic tradition). Still a good presentation and also useful to measure your own N.-interpretation against.

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This lecture holds that perspectivism supports the ‘falsifying’ hypothesis. This may be true for GS, but it is contradicted by the later Nietzsche.

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17:56 we must take back the word Gay 😂

Nietzsche wrote in German, did he not? So why do his poems rhyme in English? 23:50 (Request): The minds of others, I know well But who I am? ? I cannot tell My eye is much too close to me I am not what I saw and see It would be quite a benefit if only I could sometimes sit further away But my foes are, too distant, close friends, still too far, Between my friends and me, the middle would do. My wish? You guess my riddle!

The good news about eternal recurrence is: I've already been Superman, so now I don't have to do anything it will just happen on its own.

Bro studied Nietzsche and turned into Darth Vader

Our village gives us a mask. Modernity gives us the ability to craft our own mask. Reality is the proving ground of whether we're really Batmen or not.

"Nietzsche was a sydtematic thinker." Wrong. "A will to a system," he said, "is a lack of integrity." Spruge is a stageshow.

It's frustrating to hear Nietzsche's views on relativism and the correspondence theory of Truth. He claims to use neither yet seems to use each of them when it suits him in "Perspectivalism". He claims that truth is all a matter of interpretation. That's relativism. But then says that there are perspectives that are more useful and better for you (Prof. Staloff gives the example of trying to jump off the podium and fly away, saying you'd hurt yourself in the process), but any basis on which you might judge the consequences of a belief system and therefore its usefulness to you .... would be implicitly assuming a correspondence theory of truth. If Nietzsche were at all consistent he would commit to the implications of his relativism and admit that any perspective is as good as any other. Or, that there may be a better or worse perspective, we just have no way of knowing which is which. But of course Nietzsche prides himself on being contradictory and nonsensical because this is "provocative" and "creative". It's easy to see why he has been labelled as a proto-Postmodernist: he claims to eschew metaphysics yet engages in one. He asserts relativism yet engages in special pleading for his own interpretation. But then pulls a Derrida and says that anyone claiming to be a follower of his doesn't really understand him. I know a handful of would-be Nietzscheans and this is precisely the nonsense that frustrates me when dealing with them. It's a worldview that gives license to intellectual selfishness. Pontification without caring if anyone else gets anything out of it. It doesn't just "create individuals", it makes society and the individual enemies in a zero-sum game. A concession to one becomes a tragic loss for the other. This is crazy. An unsustainable way to live and a tormenting way to think of one's self. Clearly we are all mixtures of ourselves and society, even if the ratio is different in each of us. Frankly this lecture just makes me think that Nietzsche's whole body of philosophy is just him inviting others to join him in madness, in a private consolation brought on by his depression. That's me looking at him literally instead of "from the scales of piety", as he entreats us to do with religion. And I begin to think he is not the least bit profound. And he himself, if consistent, would say "Yes, I am merely aesthetic, but you should prefer that". HIs reason for preferring aesthetic over substance? "Taste" and "being a gentleman". This doesn't mean a thing. It's just gainsaying the existing definition of these words. It's not an argument at all. But of course, the second you pin down a critique of any particular part of Nietzsche he or his followers will just point to another place in the text where he contradicts himself and claim this as evidence that he is not foolish where you think he is. He can never be wrong, because he isn't committed to saying anything in particular. I don't find that provocative as much as I find it stupid and pointless. As much as I appreciate Nietzsche countering Schopenhauer and Hegel and Kant and the Hindu desire for cosmic death, this can't be the final word on this stuff.

How is reading German philosophy so intensly rewarding when you compare it to getting one's teeth drilled..."without anesthetic" ??? 😂😂

Nietzsche’s “Statement Against Christianity” (26:20) is more of a statement of his own lack of theological depth. And I fear that Good Dr. Darren is out of his depth here as well: In my mind, the excoriation of Arius at the The First Council of Nicaea in 325 is more than adequate condemnation of the papacy, the Catholic Church, and the foundation of the western traditions built upon it. If young critics of Christianity are lacking a reason for depreciation of the “Christian” tradition, that should be their reason.

Great lecture but why is the quality so bad?

I just do NOT SEE eye to eye with Nietzsche.

Yes… I forgive you humanity, for not being as good as me 😜

Mmh. In German it’s not gay , it’s just fröhlich, that means happy.

It’s interesting that this lecturer mentions masks. I feel like he’s wearing a mask…he delivers his lecture in a way that doesn’t quite suit his character. I even think he imitates certain verbal characteristics of Dr Sugrue. Also…the mask slips when he mentions Indians who sit down and eat rice and old bald men! 😂