All joking aside though this professor is truly an almost flawless expositor of Nietzsche...some have commented they don't like his style blahblah...but this man's truly into what he's doing, so get over it, don't take it for granted, if there were more like him the Humanities might be doing a little better on campus these days! Cheers!
(20:30-21:22, especially 20:07) "To stamp becoming with the stamp of being," to try futilely to turn the endless flux of becoming into some sort of stable being. This sounds like a very Buddhist diagnosis, though I have read that Nietzsche did not read any sort of accurate account of Buddhism.
The difference between "consciousness" and "conscience" is not much smaller than that between "Bewusstsein" and "Gewissen": the latter both derive from "wissen--wusste--gewusst" ("to know--knew--known"), even as the former both derive from the Latin "scire" ("to know"). The professor seems to acknowledge this for a moment, but then goes on to consistently deny it. Anyway, minor point. Great work the professor is doing--I love how emphatic he is.
In case you're still curious about an answer: I'd say the most likely answer would be Walter Kaufmann, the initial translater of Nietzsche into English, and the man who managed to perform the preliminary "clean-up job" of the initial Nazi-interpretation of Nietzsche (though this could be doubtful since using "contemporary" for Kaufmann would be quite loose, at this point).
@@srenwollenberg8904 although this makes sense as an answer, given that Geuss knew Kaufmann, whose interpretation of Nietzsche is at this point considered notoriously bad, I don't really think that Geuss is worried that his students are going to read Kaufmann's books (which are not popular nowadays). He probably had in mind the French Nietzscheans.
@@danielvanderwoude3213 Cool! Two people stating Homer (the Iliad and the Odyssey) as connected to Nietzsche! Any particular translation..? And what makes you think in this way?
What's with all these kids filing in after the professor starts the lecture? Does he start early? Or do these kids just come in late every day? Seriously, every video starts like this, and it's quite distracting. If I was a teacher, I would shut the door at the start of class and anybody who wanted in after that would have to present a doctor's slip or something. It's just stupid teaching to let these kids act like that with no consequences. Remember, good teaching doesn't just address the course material, it also has concerns for other aspects of life as well, like being punctual.
I know this is a 3 year old comment but i think at the start of one of his lectures he says "I know I'm supposed to start at ten past but im just going to get into it now because I'm impatient".
The study of philosophy is not to instill obedience and subservience in the students. Its to enlighten them, and allow them to think critically and creatively. I don't know any philosophy professor that does not allow lateness. Nietzsche's idea of transvaluation, slave, and master morality should undermine the idea the somehow goodness is being on time.
do you know how busy cambridge students are lol. plus they might have had to travel across town from another professor who overran. if he locked the door when he started the lecture he'd be a prick. by that logic so are you
Some universities allow a drop-in time-gap at the start of every lecture. Also, I suppose these students are generally concidered capable of being productive, in terms of academic success; they're at bloody Cambridge! Does always being in time have to be an absolute good? However, Nietzschean arguments for students being on time could include 1. One should be stoic, have a military mindset; be capable of goal-oriented asceticism. 2. Students should be in time due to order of rank, the university's heirarchy. If for nothing else, then at least for the sake of aiding their professor's pathos of distance.
