This video expands upon Nietzsche's distinction between Master Morality and Slave Morality to form a critique of the dominant morality of our age, which Nietzsche takes to be a primarily Christian morality.
Good lecture on values of life listened by sixty eight year old boy from India, probably a Gentile from St. Paul's view. Your style is very and easy for common laity to grasp. Your co relationship with humans are extraordinary, that's why you can speak about Neizhe s philosophy with such clarity.
Well, if you're interested, my main channel has around 160 additional videos, most of which are oriented toward a general audience. Here's a link (below) to the latest video on that channel. In any case, thanks for watching & listening. Eric D. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9nH_HmiHBc4.html
I love these lectures. They are exactly what I've been looking for in helping to learn about academic philosophy. Your opinining on the comparison of todays valuation of consumerism and entertainment to christian morality, with both being power structures that many quietly accept, particularly resonated with me. Your asides in that vein bring modern depth to older philosophies for me.
I’ve read the myth of Sisyphus by Camus and than I’ve listened to your lectures to get a bit more insight. Now I’m doing the same with some works of Nietzsche starting with Thus spoke Zarathustra.
Loved your comment about the independent thinker!! I wish more academics teach critical thinking rather spreading their agendas , world doesn't need a bunch of activists who are like robots spewing vitriol against everything they don't agree with without understanding their own thoughts and analyzing them before condemning the opposition.
Wow, thanks for hearing that, Enigma. Yeah, it's always an easy, tempting thing to indulge in the fantasy that we know what's best for the world... before we've even begun to understand ourselves and our motives. Eric D.
Nietzsche awakens senses and strikes fear into the reader. It's for the betterment of the "free spirits" he addresses in his writing. The master morality is the end of a path of overcoming, challenging development. How better it feels to taste the flavour of it!
Hi Eric, i'm working my way through your lectures and i just wanted too take a moment to thank you and tell you how much i appreciate your efforts. Fascinating and and useful reflections too .Trevor
Let's not forget tat Dante also wrote the Purgatory and the Paradise, which also have a great amount of detail. I don't want to be wrong but from what i remember the "pros" of being in heaven is to be filled with god's love, harmony, and music and this means not having any desire and so any pain. Because what you want is what god wants. And here we too have detailed cosmology and mapping of the place
Thank you very much for such important lecture. It's difficult to find people who can understand and tell about Nietzsche philosophy! So i hope that your Chanel become more powerful)))
Dear Dr. Dodson, once again - thank you so much for those extremly interesting lectures. This is really a gift to me. I am refering to your quoting Nietzsche quoting Thomas of Aquino, about "Whats makes heaven great". (@ 31:09) Can you write me a source of this quote of Thomas Aquino, since I need to know, whether this disturbing view of heaven, is really the last opinion of Thomas. I am not good in scholastic argumentation-method, but maybe this is a quote from a much bigger discussion, about this issue and is - maybe - rejected by Thomas himself. I dont know, but I think, it is important to investigate this. It seems to me to contradict deeply basic central christian positions, like "love of the enemy" in the ethic of Jesus himself... But also Paul (bless those who curse you etc...) (It might not be important for this lecture of Nietzsche, if Nietzsche was quoting Thomas in order to get his points, but it might be important, to understand what has been in Thomas´s mind and heart - since he is such an influencial theologian) greetings from germany Steve
Why wouldn’t a person not want to differ to the position of master as you suggest at the very end of this lecture? It’s Nietzsche’s analysis that the goal is the will to power, and if so, isn’t differing to the position of master the path?
Ha ha... I've often thought that if there's one guy I would want to interview me, it would be Rogan. However, Skavlan (from Sweden) might also be in the running. Anyhow, thanks for a laugh, and for the vote of confidence, too. Gratitude. Eric D.
I only recently found your channel and thoroughly enjoy your content. I love philosophy and it has helped me to grow into a better person. Keep up the good work it truly means a lot.
@@jumo5893 Well, if you like this stuff, you might also like the stuff that's on my main channel, which is called just, "Eric Dodson." There are around 150 videos on there. A lot of them are about applying these sorts of philosophical insights to everyday life. Anyhow... thanks for your interest, and greetings from Georgia, U.S.A. (in the Southeast). Gratitude. Eric D.
Jesus also said "No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord." (John 10:18) How is that not an example of master morality? Or did Nietzsche just conveniently forget this because it didn't fit his broad brush narrative of "meekness = weakness?" It takes strength to lay one's life down for another... strength Nietzsche never showed anyone, being too busy pouring all his resentment into his little tracts like an angry blogger. At least Jesus lived by example and willingly died for it.
what aquinas wrote about heaven amounts to getting revenge on those one hates, but revenge and hate in heaven, a place of perfect morality, are not conceivable
Schopenhauer was essentially a Buddhist thinker (at the very least interested in connecting Western esotericism and Buddhism), so it wasn't unknown at his time. I think he would continue in a more atheistic philosophy.
A good lecture on Nietzsche, marred by an terribly inaccurate representation of what Thomas Aquinas said regarding heaven. No Christian, and especially not Aquinas, ever said that heaven will consist of nothing but eternally enjoying the suffering of those in hell. This is a twisted representation of Aquinas's thought on the subject. For Thomas, heaven consisted of the Beatific Vision, the soul's eternal contemplation of the ultimate Being and Truth, God. Why you, a supposed scholar, didn't spend at least some time pointing out that Nietzsche himself misrepresented Aquinas on this point is curious, to say the least. Your correct quotation of Thomas was false in that it was a half-truth, and was falsely elaborated. You give the impression of having read very little Thomas.
5:59--politicians and teleprompters: a reference to one of your earliest videos "Counterfeit Leader: A Comedic Rant." That was a hilarious video: "Get me the guy who wrote the words on the teleprompter: he has all the great ideas!" These lectures are not only enjoyable for its content, but also for the self-referential "Easter Eggs" that amount to good fan service--"..and not other ones...and not other ones..." Incidentally, I'm astounded at Nietzsche's (not "Knee-Chee's") intellect: this guy, over and above everyone else, saw right through our moral posturing, and into the Christian foundation for our envy and resentment.
Dang, dude... you have an amazingly retentive memory. At this point, you probably know my material better than I do. But yeah... it's always been a pet-peeve of mine to see shiny, sculpted, camera-ready faces reading scripts that other people wrote... and then taking all the credit for it. I realize that it's not exactly a new invention. But it irks me anyhow. Maybe it's the teacher in me who always reacts negatively to plagiarism... But I guess that that's the way of the world. Sigh.
