And me as well basically dude and I for one appreciate a simple expression of gratitude from a decent and appreciative listener such as yourself . Far too many people here actually think they're a better authority on Nietzsche when they're simply nothing and nobody compared to professor Hicks and his vast and eminent career in philosophy . I'm not trying to say that anybody that's not a professor of philosophy can have a go at criticizing Hicks, but boy oh boy talk about some of the false egos and nonsense involved in some of these so called criticisms when some of them at best have merely split hairs with Hicks over small points to the general flow of Hicks overall discourse of this post.
It is time for more people who have a creative mind, to learn about the writings of "AYN RAND", What you will learn is how to make up your mind and start working on the direction you plan to head into.
Here’s a simple and useful critique of altruism: psychologists have found that altruism is one of the defining traits of people with high level psychological health, people who are happiest and most effective at what they do. It’s easy to understand why: being altruistic brings out the healthiest behaviour from others, and thus the altruistic person creates an environment around then which is conducive to their own happiness. #psychology #science
1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology 9,253,314 viewsFeb 1, 2011 (March 29, 2010) Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking. The first two lectures should be enough...( direct links are being blocked by YT )
The expression, "this is /sounds Greek to me... ", is thus applicable to you . This is a scholarly essay. I can assure you that reading Hegel in Hochdeutch is challenging for a German speaking person, so one has to invest the time. The same goes for golf.
"They who live on high mountains laugh at all tragedies, whether real or imagined". Introduction to part four of Zarathustra. It's true. I live on top of a mountain and have almost split my windpipe with laughing. Captain H healing, Noel
@@mmccrownus2406 what incredible synchronicity, I've just made a video putting forward count Saint Germain of the violet flame to be the possible author of "Shakespeare's" plays. Amazing. Noel
I know what you mean and I believe, without doing the quote thing Nietzsche said that very thing. As a matter of fact, one must be able to absorbs life's tragedies with equal measure of pain and joy. I find myself laughing when reading the abundance of irony presented in Nietzsche. I believe it is what separated him from Schopenhauer.
Jesus H. Christ, I'll be out for a week after this one. Quote, unquote. "blessed are the sleepy, for soon they will nod off". Zarathustra, Book three. Zzzzzzzz😴
They tell each other they are comforted, Butt, they bawl at funerals, pass seatbelt laws, fear everything, rely daily on fentanyl, heroin, Xanax, Valium, Vicodin, alcohol, cigarettes…. And there’s no atheists in foxholes: it’s always the religious going to war afraid of sex , afraid of colds, afraid of flu, afraid of music, afraid of dancing…. Banning of books, banning tweets, banning Instagram and Facebook posts…. They don’t look comforted, is all I’m saying. They are still hoarding and tryin got bring to go the next world like King Tut
@timnray99 Colonialism. When the Puritans came over? Or when the Jesuits came over? Killed and enslaved the natives. The Enlightenment: that's when the Holy Wars (The Crusades) and Spanish Inquisition ended 😹 right? You couldn't have picked a worse example. Butt please explain yourself, it's hilarious already
I know, but she was wrong, her explanations are hugely unconvincing. She said he was until-reason!! That woman was nuts. Nietzsche was and is a giant compared to her, in fact they shouldn't be compared at all... but she kept denying she got her ideas or sense from him. but the Fountainhead and other novels of hers have all characters as Nietzschean-lite. She was a lightweight intellectually and her writing are thus discarded after one understands them. She didn't LIKE Nietzsche, but that is no reason for denying him. He is and will be relevant for centuries or millennia if humanity is still here.
Booth of you are woefully wrong. Rand would not exist without Nietzsche's genealogy of morals. Rand's morality is much more developed than Nietzsche's---although in a different direction. Roark is his own thing. If you read the Fountainhead then you should know that Gail Wynand was the Niezschean hero. It is painfully explicit. Personally, I think Rand went wrong only where she saw the family and children as irrelevant. If morality ends in the individual---then it ends. Today we have birth control. Global declining birth rates are a consequence of Rand not taking Nietzsche's emphasis on children seriously. Rand's philosophy is under the surface of the world's belief that the individual is end of values---which has been manifested all over the world as a form of suicidal hedonism. The Greeks/Romans could ignore the issue of "be fruitful and multiply" because childbirth was mostly forced on them (with the exception of Silphium and pessuaries). Individualism doesn't stand up in modernity because it doesn't put enough emphasis on the family.
@@karlnord1429 Nope.... I think you are wrong, just not "woefully" wrong...LOL But I do agree with a lot of the "smaller" points you mentioned, Rand did owe most of there ideas and thinking to Nietzsche, though I disagree that she "developed" anything better or took it further than him, AT ALL. She used it mostly in practice as support to capitalism, which puts more emphasis than the rest on individualism, that was ONE of her main points. The Fountainhead is logic eating its own tail.
@@ggrthemostgodless8713 You clearly didn't read Rand or listen to this audio recording. Or else you're pathologically dishonest with yourself about the significant differences between someone advocating for (essentially) no predatory relationships, many predatory relationships.
@@karlnord1429 Ok... so I triggered you. Peace friend. I'm not here to do this sort of "pathological" defensive arguing. I gave my views, and I have read both these writers. You clearly think you're the final word on these topics so all power to you... all "will to power" to you. LOL I still think Nietzsche is the original thinker here, and much better. But to each his own. I doet een know WHY we we are comparing these two "thinkers", they're really not even in the same league. Good luck,
@@liligloo it's sooooo bad it's good. As freddy himself would say, beyond good and evil...... Full quote.... "here I sit, waiting and waiting, but for nothing, beyond good and evil, a friend of the day, and a lover of eternity". Nietzsche, Dionysian Dithyrambs. Not bad, is it?! Noel
@@peterwelsh1932 I’ve personally known Satanists who gush about Ayn Rand and Nietzsche, but compare for yourself their philosophy against the life and doctrine of Christ. Night/Day; Chalk/Cheese. The self-sacrifice of Christ for the world was purely altruistic. Nietzsche and Rand hate that (by their own words), they clearly hate God. What could be more “satanic” (:being in opposition to God).
@@alekjwrgnwekfgn alright. I was really just curious if there was some distinction between Satanists and Luciferians... a lifetime of Jesuit education and they never hinted at any of this stuff... And then the whole point of this video is that , besides the word "altruism", Neitzsche and Ayn's philosophies are drastically different. Nietzsche predicted that the death of God would ruin civilization. Most Christians would agree with that. Atn Rand said: why is Nietzsche obsessed with finding the superman? But he never says why, or what the superman is gonna do that makes it so important. And then, you gotta understand: only people who believe in God and religion can be Satanists ( not sure about luciferians) . People who don't believe in god- they don't believe in Satan at all. That's why there's no atheist wars, and no atheists in Foxholes. And Jesus is the coolest, the ultimate role model. The Sermon on the Mound, all the parables... but "Altruism" ? God made a bunch of evil disgusting monkeys. God is outside of time so he made how they ended at the same time as how they began. GOD made Apes. So how is it altruistic to die (but not die at all, ever) for something he did himself? God wanted some apes to love him, he made 💩-y apes, so now he has to forgive them. And they're mostly going to hell anyway; WE ARE DEAD AND THIS IS HELL I fail to see the Altruism part. Are the people saved who were born before Jesus? Yes? Them, what's the difference? Do abortions go to hell because they didn't accept our lord and savior? Cute little babies? No, so, obviously, Jesus didn't need to die.for us. Plus, people sukk. They don't deserve to be saved. And if they do, God breaks the rules and takes care of the good people anyway, rigjt?
@A2Z that's because there is infinite number of lies and only one truth. Any lie will deceive you and lure you off the trail of truth, and by that they know that any misleading path is coming their way, in terms of one not being on the only true path. So if they want you to fail, as long as you're failing it doesn't matter in which way you're failing, what matters is that you're not succeeding.
“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” ― Hippolyte Taine "What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?” ― Henry David Thoreau
Feeling Empty? What does it take to be a Christian? Faith in Christ Matthew 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. The Gospel 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Faith Alone in the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ (God) to Forgive your Sins through His blood. By believing in this you have become a new creation in Christ, and have a promise you’ll be with the Lord in your death, but also have the Holy Spirit living in you forever as a guide for you. If you believe, from that moment on to eternity you are saved (No matter how much you struggle with sin after). Romans 3:23-25 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; Romans 3:10-12 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Hell or Heaven? Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 23:13 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? HELL IS A REAL LOCATION ALL NON CHRISTIANS WILL BE THERE AND ARE THERE John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Heaven or Hell? A PRAYER FOR SALVATION THROUGH FAITH “I know that I am a sinner and need your forgiveness. I believe that Christ died for my sins and rose three days later from the grave. Thank you for forgiving my sin on the cross. You alone Jesus is now why I have forgiveness and eternal life. Thank you in Jesus name. Amen.” If you have prayed this with faith you are Forgiven and now in the Body of Christ. Welcome brother or sister. Remember saying a prayer does not save you, having Faith does in Jesus and what He did for you. I encourage you to find a Godly Bible believing church as well God Bless
Was listening for a minute and was like "hay that's not a proper way to quote Nietzsche." It's missing the context of what Nietzsche critiqued about this "nobal man's" ideals.
Nietzsche works speak against hierarchy and positions of dogmatic power, but he also would point out the problems with idealizing the ego and the indivuals perspective and desires.
@@larkohiya yes, thanks. The narrator's description of the ,"weak" altruistic man versus the "strong" egotistical sounds more Rand,, not so much Nietzsche, although Nietzsche did write of the amoral superman. The analogy of the lone and group animal relating to man is better described by Richard Dawkins in Selfish Gene. The narrator's explanation of the slave mentality polluting the masters true self makes no sense in the context of revolutions, rebellions, civil wars etc. The lone animal only survives if the group animals don't turn on them.
@@patrickmcgoohan115 the OP of this video should read hegal so he properly understands what N man is getting at when he speaks of master and slave. Rand is not going to understand that perspective in her work
You would not believe participating in the rnc/dnc political spectacle actually affected power or policy if you were half as smart as you lament others not being
Au contraire! The bobbleheads we’ve seen at the White House, oh, since Reagan at least, are exactly the type of people to be preferred in the seat if people who booth Rand’s drivel were in power. Rand provided the ideological cover for Leo Strauss’ framework. Divide and Conquer is not a new grand strategy though. I get it, it’s clutching at straws - the owners of capital needed to come up with something as grandiose and ridiculous to combat the spread of communism and they did. Radical egocentrism.
@@jandeenphoto Thanks!😃 I was referring to 'people' like Hitler who did the same thing with Darwins ideas. He took the idea and twisted it around. In the case of Darwin he took the idea of natural selection (which Darwin said merely occurred in nature) and applied it to the State (which was to 'decide' who lives and who dies) this is perversion and abomination. Hitler did the same thing with Nietzsche, who meant it Individually, where Hitler applied it collectively. Nietzsche was speaking to the reader, the individual. NOT to the state or the group or collective. At least that is how I think that he intended it.
@@jandeenphoto Ayn Rand was a brilliant woman. Her antagonism with Theism deprived her movement of millions of supporters. Objectivism was a great bulwark against Communism. It was the UN communism. Or anti Communism but it was incomplete. Objectivism has a God shaped hole at its center. If she could have discovered the rational argument for God. It would have been complete. She did cryptically suggest once that she might have found one. Communism has slaughtered millions and millions of people. I have yet to hear of anyone slaughtered by the implementation of Objectivism. I respect the right of Objectivists to not believe in God. All I ask is they keep an open mind that there could be a valid argument for theism somewhere that they just haven't seen or considered.
Gosh, this is so dense. There are at least four good little podcasts in here. 51:07 the purpose of heaven and hell is [..] to send one's enemies to hell and watch them suffer.
How is it independence to enslave someone else and make them do the work for you? I really don't understand how anyone can think this is greatness. Nietzsche makes no sense to me.
Nietzsche is defending the hegemony of Culture so for him is a deal bring back the 'greek' model. Nietzsche lived the so called 'grecomania' wicht wants to bring back ancient greek values like slavery. you have to see on that way.. his philosophy were made in a time where germany were trying to affirm his self in some way in new world.
Exactly. Like a lot of this kind of stuff it sounds good on a superficial level but things like "Live Dangerously!" are especially unwise during our pressurized drug/junk food/indulgent culture of heightened hatred and violence. Live so you can enjoy your grand children makes more sense for long term happiness and survival which requires humility. The ego is the root of all mental illness said Jung. Puffing it up doesn't help a person these days at all if ever.
@@SuperTigerTV live dangerously, not recklessly!....being free, embarking on a life journey, to venture outside one's comfort zone, to find meaning, opportunity, and truly learn about one's self and the universe around it, demands courage and entails that you risk exposing urself to a certain degree of danger and lack of security!....You can seek security if you wish, but it comes at the price of the former!
Nietzsche also quite often attempts to live vicariously, trying to overcome his own weak, sickly and miserable reality by imaginging himself as this blonde, beastl-like, amoral Übermensch.
Rand is another who when she strikes a sacred cow it.is with such a resounding bull's-eye that it resounds with a deafening bell. Her appeal is largely based on this and draws on these outstanding moments but her elevation of the "business man" with a blind assumption of near apotheosis with some endless monopoly on all that is rational brings out Miss Rand's termination with reality.
There is ''quote'' ''unquote''. ''quote''... ''quote'' this ''quote'' that, ''unquote''... Seriously, you are reading a book on RU-vid. You are not writing an essay. Chillax on the ''quote/unquote''. It will be easier to listen too.
That's stupid. He has to indicate the quotations so that you know if it's the words of the author or the words of the person being referenced. If you don't like books being read to you then go buy it and read it yourself. It's only confusing if you aren't listening with full attention.
Nameless cowards gnash their teeth and circle in the darkness. Waiting to attack any who seek to better themselves. Truth speakers are opposed by liars. All systems lie. Only the individual tells the truth.
I always think of Nietzsche as an author more than a philopher... He should have been French. There philosophers are all more like authors and less like philosophers because they couldn't care less about there contradictions
It appears that the wounded, disillusioned altruist inevitably becomes the savage egotist. The human condition truly is hard wired in our collective consciousness.
From my experience altruists are already wounded. Most likely in childhood by abusive mother who overmoralised her child. Common feature of altruists is atheism which I believe is caused by hate of father (who allowed it to happen). I think that resentment is also caused the same way. Those thoughts are my daydreaming, so take it with grain of salt 😄😉 If you know altruist of egoist who have good relationship with father, i will be grateful for counterexample.
Nonsense, although I'm a huge admirer of Jung , there is absolutely no established scientific evidence whatsoever to support your unfounded claim that the collective unconscious is hardwired in any way at all in the human brain or body for that matter.
@@terrymcanalen3031 i like the way you ignored almost entirely what I wrote with this slight 😄 This joke was intended to warn that I'm not absolutely sure. I can share what made me think this way and let you judge for yourself. False altruism is easy to recognize when you look through idea of false generosity by Paulo Freire. If you don't believe in people being hardwired look for experience expected-dependant. Frans de Waal proved that social behaviours existing in humans are also present in animals. I believe that it works in reverse. There is also study about lack of adult males in elephant community. If you compare it to black fatherless communities its become obvious what causes violent antisocial behaviours. Especially in case of rejection by female 😄 Peggy Sanday suggest that one of five features of patriarchal societies is lack of father involvement in raising toddlers. This one is funniest because feminist advocating in father involvement and supporting it is rarity. I almost forgot to mention my personal experience of working in strangers homes for years and observing young children and their relationship with mothers and fathers. Mothers are world champions in showoffs in altruism while using child to satisfy their needs. Have fun 😊
Nietzsche built a philosophy on the will to power, but not to the extent of thinking one masterful mind must exert his will over all to the detriment of all and to the benefit of one. He was appalled by such an idea. Rand, however, would be in complete favour of this, her world view nothing but a fancy wording of something called "hedonism".
@@DraculaCronqvist Based on "it's important to keep an open mind" ... I'm going to have to pass on bothering to explain anything to you ... I will give you an up-vote, since they're the new down-vote ...
@@eccesignumrex4482 Then you have absolutely nothing to say of substance. Not bothering to explain is an admission of having nothing to say. You're simply disagreeing without having any basis to do so. You just didn't like what you read. Polemic vs debate.
All 'ought' arguments. Nothing about being God like. Absolutely absurd. Zero substance & all fodder, a red herring away from the Law. Kinda sad actually, Good luck.
Stephen Hicks... thank you for making this video! The altruistic world is a lonely and hostile place for an egoist. It is beyond refreshing to hear a scholar actually speak fairly about egoism/objectivism. I cannot imagine how you clawed yourself through a higher education. I am the only one I know personally that hold to objectivist values and it is difficult not to erode in the face of the ocean of opposition and name calling I face on pretty much a daily basis defense of my values. Thank you. Videos like this are the only form of validation I get. Please keep them coming!
RaunienTheFirst - Not an argument. If you want to make a sustainable case, you need to state your premises and show their relation to your conclusion. But if you go so far as to do that, then you concede the Objectivist position in toto. Thanks for playing.
Objectivists are engaged in an age old ruse. ..justifying being an animal in a world of humans. Validation? You are intellectual children wrapping the most base primitive parts of mankind in the ultimate, empty, short sighted, stupid world view of all time. You get disrespect because you are all an enormous flaccid freaking joke. The woman talked in circles & tautologies. The animal made horrifying comments about First Nation Peoples. ..and on and on. You guys are filth. Face it. Own it. She did. ..while weak from endless lack of discipline, on the only thing that cared enough to save her... Charity. ..daft bloody dolts mistaking evil for a weltanschaung is what you are.
Fantastic work. I will always believe Ayn Rand and objectivism in its self are the most misrepresented, topics within the political and intellectual sphere
Objectivists are engaged in an age old ruse. ..justifying being an animal in a world of humans. Validation? You are intellectual children wrapping the most base primitive parts of mankind in the ultimate, empty, short sighted, stupid world view of all time. You get disrespect because you are all an enormous flaccid freaking joke. The woman talked in circles & tautologies. The animal made horrifying comments about First Nation Peoples. ..and on and on. You guys are filth. Face it. Own it. She did. ..while weak from endless lack of discipline, on the only thing that cared enough to save her... Charity. ..daft bloody dolts mistaking evil for a weltanschaung is what you are.
Nietzsche oneof the greatest philosophers and men of the 19th century The Rabbis in galus helped the Jewish people get through lookat the jews in Israel now very different
_the shrouded figures in the funeral procession march not in honor of their Creator, Whose Will it is they live. They are not following His Will; they are opposing it._ _and what is the black-draped body they would bury? A body which they dedicated to death, a symbol of corruption, a sacrifice to sin, offered to sin to feed upon and keep itself alive; a thing condemned, damned by its maker and lamented by every mourner who looks upon it as himself. You who believe you have condemned the Son of God to this ARE arrogant. But you who would release him are but honoring the Will of his Creator. The arrogance of sin, the pride of guilt, the sepulchre of separation, all are part of your unrecognized dedication to death. The glitter of guilt you laid upon the body would kill it. For what the ego loves, it kills for its obedience. But what obeys it not it cannot kill._ _under the dusty edge of its distorted world the ego would lay the son of God, slain by its orders, proof in the decay that God Himself is powerless before the ego's might, unable to protect the life that he created against the egos Savage wish to kill. My brother, child of our Father, this is a DREAM of death. There is no funeral, no dark altars, no grim commandments nor twisted rituals of condemnation to which the body leads you. Ask not release of IT. but free it from the merciless and unrelenting orders you laid upon it, and forgive it what you ordered it to do. In its exaltation you commanded it to die, for only death could conquer life. And what but insanity could look upon the defeat of God, and think it real?_ _what danger can assail the wholly innocent? What can attack the guiltless? What fear can enter and disturb the peace of sinlessness? What has been given you, even in its infancy, is in full communication with God and you. In its tiny hands it holds, in perfect safety, every miracle you will perform, held out to you. The miracle of life is ageless, born in time but nourished in eternity. Behold this infant, to whom you gave a resting place by your forgiveness of your brother, and see in it the Will of God. Here is the babe of Bethlehem reborn. And everyone who gives him shelter will follow him, not to the cross, but to the resurrection and the life._ _what would you see without the fear of death? What would you feel and think if death held no attraction for you? Very simply, you would remember your Father. The Creator of life, the Source of everything that lives, the Father of the universe and the universe of universes, and of everything that lies even beyond them would you remember._ _and now you stand in terror before what you swore never to look upon._ *ACIM*
Like Hicks says in the second part of these videos: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZhK6XOT3uAA.html&ab_channel=AtlasSociety ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bChKoll81r4.html&ab_channel=AtlasSociety "... Some fairly clear contradictions in the postmodernist assertions that any person who is smart and clever has to be aware of. On the one hand, all truth is relative. On the other, Post-modernism tells it like it really is..."
I just love that philosophers keep trying to bring reasoning into chaos. It feels like they are forcing a number of infinity to equal 1 anther infinity to equal another 1 and then forcing them into an equation that says 1 + 1 = 5. Maybe it's just luck that one state does well and another suffers. Maybe it isn't the strong who make it to the top but the weak who use the strong to control the stronger.
@@goyonman9655 ITT = In This Thread, or in this case the comment section. But by the comments I can also guess the narrator hasn't read any Nietzsche (or Rand)
@@goyonman9655 Again that's my guess based on the comments, I didn't bother watching the video. But since the comments are just a hate circlejerk with no actual philosophical arguments I assumed the narrator didn't go into any actual philosophy/only a strawman version
Neville Goddard teaching from experience will wake you up when you came down and called man, the death on this planet repeats for teaching you never dies except in man, you a original sons of god never dies, its a play and no lost
I couldn't get past comment about the woman blogger who equated Nihilism to Buddhism and you referring to her as intelligent. Buddhism is not realistic it's not Nihilism.
Think she meant Buddhism makes you do nothing. To sit and do nothing. To let everyone kick you and you don't react. To fight back is to be a non nihilist. For fighting back is the Warrior Spirit in action. It says " I have strength and are worth life. I'll show you how in combat" Buddhism is Nihilism in this way . It has no defense mechanism for itself. It always sacrifices it's people. It never becomes powerful to rule . It is the ruled who are Buddhist. Perfect for China or N. Korea IF you want to survive it. To the Buddhist, the world is doomed. So why do anything within it? Why make a move at all if it's all for nothing? The Buddhist proceeds to sit quietly and accept this doom. To accept whatever fate may be hold him. He is a man of inaction. For if you do nothing others will do things to you.
@@robertpatter5509Nihilism doesn't have anything to do with passivism. Buddhism is neither nihilism or are they all pacifist. Buddha himself was a warrior of the sakya clan warrior class.
@@alankuntz6494 Well tell that to the Buddhists who don't follow Buddha's Warrior Path. Today, Buddhism is like Yoga. A commercialized way to escape the world. It's not warrior like at all.. It was in the past ,but not today. Nihilism is just pure negation. A kind of deconstruction of all things. Buddhism today seeks to escape the world in it's modern form . To negate it. By being passive. And doing nothing. They deconstruct. Yet don't act. All they do is criticize never build. That's passive. If Buddhism wishes to harness a martial spirit it once had then they would act in that way. But they don't. . It's degenerated into a spiritual yoga style instead. ( Which Liberalism does to it . Turns it into a joke or a lifestyle choice) . It can be reformatted into a Warriors Path but I haven't seen that.
These figures are the more popular yet lesser interesting and consistent thikers of egoism. How can you avoid Max Stirner and Dora Marsden when addressing anything egoism? Rand was a moralist romantic and left the whole issue of capitalist ideology in her dead angle, where Nietzsche also did not go as far and deep as Stirner did in the overthrowing of collective constructs imposed for the formation of the being in society.
Objectivism(?) Is the mental equivalent of horse sh_t. It may appear to be appealing as it lays on the ground . But like any other type of manure it only derives some value after a time of composting and the nasty stink is gone. Then it is good for the 🌹.
Excuse me mate, but who the hell are you as there's no name of any sort attached to your reply here and when I click on the little colored initial tag accompanying your reply the ridiculous thing just says each time that an error has occurred and retry which it won't let me do either, hhhmmmfff seems like bullshit to me, but hey who am I to say when I don't know for sure. So therefore I'm going to call you Mr Error which ties in nicely with the simple fact about Nietzsche that there is simply no right or wrong way to " understand him " in any overarching and comprehensive general way. Nietzsche is not a philosopher that anyone else can extrapolate a complete understanding that is either right or wrong. If you think that professor Hicks has gotten something wrong about Old Fritz then you need to be more specific about what that is and why you think that is the case. One point I have to make is I can barely remember the videos content in this post as it's so long ago I posted this previous comment here, at least a year ago now , but I'll tell you what Error , I'm going to watch it again now and see what I pick up on and notice veiwing it for the second time . Because to be honest as much as I love Nietzsche's life works , the bottom line for me is I don't really give much of a fuck if I can see someone has mangled something about him yet again . Compared to someone trying to tell me Hicks has something wrong about Ayn Rand and I myself agree Hicks has something wrong about her . But exactly how I would view his error would depend on whether his error with her casts a bad light on her or Hicks himself.
The best has still to come, just as when gusano Rand went on Medicare and Foodstamps at the end of her existence. Where have her millionaire friends she wanted to impress all her live so much, been then? Satan, have your fun!
Scott: So you are saying this is a well conceived "Sociology Essay"? Not a mash of anti communist fiction VS. an Expo of Will to Power? Then there is that nasty separate SELF, not just Greater Good? Is it still cool to have a WHITE SELF? Is Poetic Person a "primary point of view"? What is a Visionary?
Does anyone remember Anton LaVey? He stole his schtick mostly from these two with a bunch of hedonism and fake devil worship thrown in. He was pretty decent to discover as a kid that, led me to some great literature.
Comparing Nietzsche to Rand. Not even going to dignify this silly video. We all know Rand was a hack and a certified nutjob. That's why she is loved so much by narcissists. Keep in mind that according to Rand's rants, all young girls that expose themselves in websites like onlyfans are heroes, while a firefighter who enters a burning building to save a family is just a fool worthy of mockery.
@Thomas Hägg Go ahead and refute me then. Prove me wrong using Rand's own words of course. What would Rand think about a young lady making thousands of dollars every month by exposing her body on the internet, and how would Rand compare her to a firefighter who makes just a fraction of that risking his life to save strangers.
Altruism means sacrificing a higher value for a lower value. Valuing life is obviously high on that list. But very few people SHOULD save lives as it requires a degree of competence. So does making a marriage with children work. The market has created a new industry for (mostly) female producers and male consumers not suited for families to live out their sexual fantasies. This could save a million children from being born into neglecting households.
Social conservatives have done such an appalling job at promoting their own values contra the left that we have arrived at this point. They will be crucified without putting up a fight. They will give the ultimate sacrifice for NOTHING and for people who HATE THEM! Do not run into fires for people who would like you burnt at the stake!!!
Really Great video. Two of my favorites in philosophy. Humans are selfish no need to hide it anymore we all want to be the best and the people who disliked this video are the same ones Nietzsche and Ayn Rand talked about the men and women who disliked human excellence.
The one thig that u are good about is the easiest one bro... The make the thing show of for what they are not. Lide. The lie is the esiest thing that learn the kids to be not punished.
