Masters vs. Slaves | Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality Explained 

Just released the companion interview to this lecture: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rzzxFuyJX5E.html I interview one of the leading Nietzsche Scholars to try and understand why he rejected free will and how he suggested we live without it.

been waiting for those rare moments were yt actually recommends me high quality content

This is truly your calling. Please never stop reading and educating the general public. Your insights are needed and certain to make all of humanity better in the long run. You deserve unbridled success for your elocution and your willingness to synthesize ideas from history and philosophy.

This is a very scary Lecture, to think that, there is a lesson out in the world where what is considered "immoral" is actual justified with undeniable logic and reason.

This is the type of content that advances our civilisation. Let's all pray the algorithms are bumping this up.

Your brilliant lectures on Girard opened my mind to a break taking vista of new ideas. And now a lecture on one of the seminal texts of our modern times, for free no less? A truly special gift!

This was one of the most incredible RU-vid videos I’ve ever seen.

This was the greatest lecture I have ever watched. For me, peering into Philosophy, Psychology and Religion. So many ideas come through that aren’t always fully or simply understood, hardest of all to put them all in relativity to each other especially directly looking into the mind of the creator is overwhelming. This really helped me understand Fredrick better. Cheers

Some links to further guide your study: * Join my email list to be notified of future episodes: johnathanbi.com * Full transcript: www.johnathanbi.com/p/nietzsches-guide-to-greatness-the Companion lectures & interviews: * Girard's Defense of Christianity: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0x09KBDAE9A.html * Nietzsche's Attack on Free Will (Launching 6/9/24): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rzzxFuyJX5E.html Texts I referenced (affiliate): * Best Translation of the Genealogy: amzn.to/45jtXS4 * My Book Notes: www.johnathanbi.com/p/on-the-genealogy-of-morality-by-nietzsche * Best Reading Companion to the Genealogy: amzn.to/3x4QQMc * My Book Notes: www.johnathanbi.com/p/nietzsche-on-morality-by-brian-leiter

Brilliant, riveting dissection of modern thoughts and beliefs through Nietzsche

How does this guy have less than 30k subscribers?!?! This is amazing.

I didn't want to like this. The intro was just way to over the top for me to appreciate at first. To unfamiliar with with Jonathans style for me to just outright accept. But I kept on coming back to this lecture and taking in bits and pieces, and now glad I didn't give up on it. Probably the most thorough and concise explanation I have heard about Nietsche's philosophy thats actually absorbable, especially to someone unfamiliar. Thanks for this.

This is so good. Yet I can't shake the fact that the man went mad.

Reminiscent of the late Dr Michael Sugrue. You’re a gifted orator Jonathan, amazing work.

Thank you for these lectures! Looking forward for more!

Awesome project! Just in time to motivate a summer of reading. Welcome to the "quit work for passion" club lol. Seeing your older videos at a pivotal moment tipped the scale subconsciously for me, to pursue different paths.

Finally I love Nietzsche cant wait to watch this

I think this lecture gives a powerful and cogent reading of Nietzsche, but I think people who are new to his thought will miss out if this is their first, and especially only, source. I think the section on limitations, in particular, misses some important nuances. On the "Will to Power," I think it's important to note that a layman's definition of "power" may be misleading here. What "power" means to Nietzsche seems much more subtle than domination as we may perceive it. I think it's a useful exercise to ask "how could X be the Will to Power" than to say that it seems inaccurate. Zarathustra argues "Gift Giving Virtue" to be the highest virtue, where you take from the world so that you can give more abundantly afterwards. Part of the paradigm shift he presents is asking us to see approach these things as manifestations of health and abundance. I would also briefly suggest that the more revolutionary aspect is the overtaking of "being" as a primary good by "becoming," this may click well with Girard. On "The Sovereign Individual," Nietzsche strikes me as having an intense love for friendship. The Gay Science has some excellent, even heartwrenching sections on this. I think it's a much more sensible surface read to say that he holds manipulation in contempt, and is so deeply polemical because he wants to find more genuine modes of communication. His succinct repudiations of shame, of morality as necessary clothing, his intimate writing on "Star Friendship," the bleakness of "Across The Footbridge," and many other sections point to a yearning for something genuine. His sociality may be selective, but I reject the idea that he's anywhere near a pure individualist. On "Nietzsche's Life," I think this section loses nuance in giving a run-of-the-mill critique. I find it cutting and powerful, but I would point out a few things. Firstly, in Ecce Homo he describes himself as having been born with a "double origin, taken as it were from the highest and lowest rungs of the ladder of life, at once a decadent and a beginning, this, if anything, explains that neutrality, that freedom from partisanship in regard to the general problem of existence, which perhaps distinguishes [him]." A generous reading has to take him in this light. He claims to write things from the peaks of gaiety, being capable of glimpsing a more transcendent state. He writes of having two to three "faces," he writes for his "unknown friends," occasionally misdirecting them to teach them to think for themselves. He writes as a philologist, hoping to 'drive to despair every one who is “in a hurry.”' What I think a surface reading - of the man or the texts - may miss is the interpretation in which he is significantly more careful, determined, and joyful than he may appear. It remains an open question for me whether he was driven by a hidden love for his future friends, by ressentiment, or by any other combination of things, but I find it more enriching to stay open to this range of possibilities.

My opinion is that you’re misquoting Buddhism. The never said that “all life is suffering”, but he used the word Dukkha, which means unsatisfactory. And the reason he gives for that is the impermanence of everything. Yes you can conqust, have orgies become a billionaire, but they are all temporary and will eventually end up being unsatisfactory due to their perishable nature.

Beautiful lecture!

This is absolute gold bro. thank you.

Last year I had the great joy of watching Michael Sugrue’s philosophy lecture series on RU-vid. These lectures feel like a well deserved and very well executed sequel to that series

I’m just 30 seconds in but I already love it. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. I’m a big Nietzsche guy.

I’m so glad I’m not in my 20s. I really would have thought this guy was smart. 😂

Where did this lecture take place? When am I incredibly tired and thirsty, and when i get home, pop a chilled can of bubbly and aghhh I am refreshed and ready to-energized that is exactly how i feel after stumbling on your channel,wow! I subbed by the 50something minute and i pray i find more channels like yours!

loving this

Nietzsche: Become a master by taking me as your master and becoming my slave

My mind is blown, thank you

Excellent - well done

I think calling people who follow Nietzsche almost always sick, ugly and marginalised is a gross misrepresentation. Teddy Roosevelt, Bruce Lee, Johnny Depp and Arnold Schwarzenegger, all fans of Nietzsche's ideas of the ubermensch and self overcoming, don't exactly strike me as sick desperate weaklings. He is probably the most lauded philosopher of the modern era and has amassed a following of people from all walks of life, strong and weak. I also think it's rather unfair that you used an incident from his period of madness to indict the man's character.

The Japanese have a concept in Ikigai that aligns with the idea of Master and Slave Morality. It recognizes that some individuals have the duty to lead (Master Morality), while others are more suited to serve (Slave Morality). The key isn't about leaders being self-absorbed or servers being incompetent. Instead, the solution lies in combining and acknowledging their strengths. By learning to balance and complement each other's strengths and weaknesses, they can work harmoniously and effectively together.

I battle with identifying as a salve or maste. This lecture gave me a new insights into why I have certain beliefs… I’m still unpacking this lecture, my brain wheels are turning 😂 I bet it has something to do with my free will.. unto the next lecture!

Watched the first hour of this lecture in bits and pieces being completely dumbfounded by Nietzsche's disgusting cynicism I had presumed was also your personal opinion. Now that I've finally finished the lecture and gotten past the introduction I see how terribly impatient I was being. Wonderful lecture, I am excited to see what you put out next!

The sort of excellent and fluent speaking that I’ve only heard from Michael Sugrue prior to this. Tremendous oration!

Amazing!

This almost looks like a super talented anime guy giving lectures to people from high echelon of society. Straight out of high quality movies. Very artistic and high life theme in this video. Please make more.

"Do not confuse impotence as virtue"

Exceptional

Glorious

Easily one of the greatest lectures I’ve ever seen

genuine efforts at it

Brilliant lecturer. Arrived here by recommendation of RU-vid. Johnathan you just gain a fan.

Thank you, Jonathan, for the thought-provoking lecture on morality. It's a topic I'm always interested in learning more about. Having grown up in a Christian (evangelical) household, I'm finding it valuable to explore different perspectives on morality through philosophy. It's concerning to hear about the influence of some churches in developing countries that may hinder progress. I'm glad there are ongoing discussions about the role of religion in society. My own journey with philosophy has been rewarding, and I'm grateful for the chance to keep learning and growing. Better late than never!

I never comment but this was a genuinely amazing lecture, that brought back to my mind many of Nietzsche's most illuminating and important thoughts. I wonder what you might think of this: Nietzsche's overemphasis on the will to power as his interpretive modus operandi immediately makes one question whether he was not in fact afflicted by the same perverse motivations (due to his own life for example). But this reading of him, which I had, was quickly troubled when I read Zarathustra (after his later works) in which he condemns ressentiment in such fierce and unforgiving terms (On the Tarantulas, On Passing-by come to my mind), that I find it unbelievable that after all that he was still helpless against ressentiment. Also, he says he overcomes ressentiment in Ecce Homo. I'm merely saying that, though its certain that he was at one point afflicted, it may not be the case that he was to end...but, considering the quote from the biographer you shared at the end of the video, he may have lost in the end anyways. But this, to my mind, merely makes his stand against ressentiment (in places like Zarathustra) all the more heroic. He did say that its possible to have the keys to the locks of others but not oneself.

Very enlightnening, enjoyed that alot

Amazing lecture ❤

This is dynamite !! simply masterful ..

this guy is a very engaging lecturer

Never have I clicked so fast

thank you, fantastic lecture!

This is terrifyingly refreshing content. New sub here.

At least credit the actors

appreciate the hard work you put into this. just bought the book to read it for myself.

This is awesome!

This was incredibly interesting and very well articulated. Your dissection of the hypocrisy of the priest and how their ultimate means to power are the very virtues that rebuke power itself was super thought provoking. This made me think about the story of the Ascension of Christ and how he came down as a lowly mortal sinless and blameless to take all of our sins and still dies on the cross for us BUT ultimately rises again 3 days later to prove God’s ultimate authority over all creation. Really enjoyed this.

Such a high quality content with such little attention, just proves Nietzsche always gets it right i guess.

Content looks great. Good luck.

Excited for this! Happy you got rid of the teleprompter, it made the words coming out of your mouth a little too static and scripted. Keep it going Johnathan!

Reminds me so much of the late Dr Sugrue, very well done! Could you do a lecture on Marcus Aurelius next?

I listened to a Great Courses plus course on Nietzsche and I think this was, in many ways, better and a clearer exploration of this book and his philosophy than that one. Thanks for making these!

I'm getting Michael Sugrue vibes. Kinda cool. ☺

great video

Solid lecture

This is excellent work!

amazing video

This guy is sharp. Respect bro

There's a misconception here. Nietzsche didn't necessarily advocate treating others as mere instruments. He endorsed: Shared Humanity, which is a form of compassion driven by a recognition of our shared human experience. This involves empathy and understanding without necessarily feeling pity. Tough Love which represents an approach that motivates the suffering individual to overcome their struggles. It might involve setting boundaries or challenges that ultimately benefit the other person's growth. Respectful Challenge: Nietzsche argued that sometimes challenging others can help them develop. This wouldn't be about using them for your own gain, but pushing them to overcome limitations and reach their full potential.

Absolutely amazing lecture. It is undeniable that Nietzsche was a genius. Wonder how his philosophy would’ve changed if he simply understood the mirror principle.

When you realize that nietzche keeps critcizing the cleric/religious leader even though he inherited the genetics of his father that was a pastor.😂

Beautiful work. I wonder what your thoughts are on G I Gurdjieff, as he shares many parallels with Nietzsche

Always remember..... Nietzche couldnt even liberate himself!!!

Keep the vision going, your a natural!

Dudes an excellent lecturer.

Chawsome!

This lecture gives me a lot of deja vu from DR. Michael Sugrue

Are you doing a whole Nietzche series?Will to power?

We'd like you teaching us how you're so good at speaking bro

My guy you got the podium and use it well

Id rather follow an internal or written guidance, than leave everything to chance. And miss all targets because i never aim at all...

Dude, who is this guy? Incredible. 😊

Nietzsche is a mesmerizing writer. The question, however, is and always has been a metaphysical one. Morality in the absence of God is but weakness. Materialism is the foundation of the Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity and morality.

I agree with your takes

Dude was legitimizing his pessimism, thats all this is.

Fantastic! „The pendulum of the mind oscillates not between right and wrong but between sense and nonsense”… I am looking forward to hearing Mr. Bi’s lectures on the magnificent works of Carl Jung!

WOW. Awesome presentation. Best philosophy professor I've ever seen.

'Resentment, the #1 offender" page 86 of the AA big book directly citing Nietzsche

Ascetic priest go to the isolation in search of truth not power, yet power is the truth but love wins at the end,

The aesthetics here are hysterical

Rodion Raskolnikov thought he was a higher man. The man of virtue is the higher man and if you want to become him, turn to Aristotle, not Nietzsche.

It is interesting that in his insanity he presaged the future reality of his status. He may not have been the most famous man in his time but he is certainly now regarded as amongst them, few philosophers names are as broadly recognized and fewer stills ideas. Unquestionably one of the most brilliant men who ever lived, even if his ideas are not without flaw. The man predicted WW2 and the soviet union afterall, much like another great titan of the age, Jung.

Are these people here against their will? Are they actually cardboard cutouts?

thank you algorithm, i guess it recommends this vid to people with higher thinking

This makes sense.

Not only the lecture was very interesting, the outfit was fresh af

But why does he have the affect of a politician?

Very interesting lecture. I live near Columbia, is it possible to attend the next one live in the audience?

Mr. Sugre Musk is an amazing performance. Presentation. Presentation. Presentation.

When he was describing master morality, Trump came to mind😂😂

What the hell. I’ve never watched anything on YT that was almost 2 hours! Such a man with eloquence, and competence that he captivated a naive individual such as myself, I don’t know anything about an “essetic” (heck I might’ve spelt that wrong) or an “eagaliterian” but I have been enameled by your speech sir, you have my utmost support and respect. Kudos❤

Which are the few books that we should reread vs those we should perhaps, never touch?