This is a reupload. I preferred the audio of this version, so that's the main reason I decided to reupload it. I’ll still leave the previous video up as unlisted, so as to not break any external links with it. Sorry about any inconvenience!

Bryan Magee is the greatest presenter I’ve ever seen.

"He was always going to study physiology, physics, but never got around to it." omg he's just like me fr

I would take Bryan Magee over any youtuber every time. Thank you for uploading!

“What have you learned from this video?” “Yes.”

This was a great episode. Nietzsche is so much easier to follow than Aristotle.

Both Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky address the same concept regarding the "Ubermensch". The big distinction is that Dostoyevsky approaches it from a religious perspective and the mental turmoil that follows. For anyone interested in this concept definitely read Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment together with Nietzsche's work.

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It is good that they mention his psychosis was the result of tertiary syphilis not his philosophy

Hey, thanks for posting such old videos. Post more, it’s helpful.

This was very interesting. Thank you for uploading.

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such a great talk

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Love this show. What channel was this on back in the day? BBC?

Brilliant!

Balanced and very relevant

Nietzsche's 'eternal recurrence' has a meaning of an existential test, in that one should measure one's strength determined by one's ability to embrace all the irreversible circumstances that have created everything about one's life to the point of passionately wanting to relive them infinitely -- "amor fati".

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" Friedrich Nietzsche is a strange philosopher, poet and mystic. His strangeness is that his philosophy is not the ordinary rational approach to life; his strangeness is also that he writes poetry in prose. He is also a strange mystic, because he has never traveled the ordinary paths of mysticism. It seems as if mysticism happened to him. Perhaps being a philosopher and a poet together, he became available to the experiences of the mystic also. The philosopher is pure logic, and the poet is pure irrationality. The mystic is beyond both. He cannot be categorized as rational, and he cannot be categorized as irrational. He is both, and he is neither. It very rarely happens that a philosopher is a poet also, because they are diametrically opposite dimensions. They create a tremendous inner tension in the person. And Nietzsche lived that tension to its very extreme. It finally led him into madness, because on the one hand he is one of the most intelligent products of Western philosophy, without parallel, and on the other hand so full of poetic vision that certainly his heart and his head would have been constantly fighting. The poet and the philosopher cannot be good bedfellows. It is easy to be a poet, it is easy to be a philosopher, but it is a tremendous strain to be both. Nietzsche is not in any way mediocre - his philosopher is as great a genius as his poet. And the problem becomes more complicated because of this tension between the heart and the mind. He starts becoming available to something more - more than philosophy, more than poetry. That’s what I am calling mysticism. His statement is of tremendous importance: “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.” I have always been telling you that you can choose a friend without being too cautious, but you cannot afford an enemy without being very alert - because the friend is not going to change you, but the enemy is going to change you. With the friend there is no fight, with the friend there is no quarrel; the friend accepts you as you are, you accept the friend as he is. But with the enemy the situation is totally different. You are trying to destroy the enemy and the enemy is trying to destroy you. And naturally you will affect each other, you will start taking methods, means, techniques from each other. After a while it becomes almost impossible to find who is who. They both have to behave in the same way, they both have to use the same language, they both have to be on the same level. You cannot remain on your heights and fight an enemy who lives in the dark valleys down below; you will have to come down. You will have to be as mean, as cunning as your enemy is - perhaps you will have to be more, if you want to win. Nietzsche is right. “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” The second part of the statement is actually the very essence of meditation: it is gazing into emptiness, nothingness, into an abyss. And when you gaze into an abyss it is not one-sided; the abyss is also gazing into your eyes. When I am looking at you, it is not only that I am looking at you; you are also looking at me. The abyss has its own ways of gazing into you. The empty sky also gazes into you, the faraway star also looks into you. And if the abyss is allowed to gaze into you, soon you will find a great harmony between yourself and the silence of the abyss, you will also become part of the abyss. The abyss will be outside you and also inside you. What he is saying is immensely beautiful and truthful. The meditator has to learn to gaze into things which he wants to become himself. Look into the silent sky, unclouded. Look long enough, and you will come to a point when small clouds of thoughts within you disappear, and the two skies become one. There is no outer, there is no inner: there is simply one expanse."

What is the will to power?

Nietzsche’s philosophy is almost the total opposite of my own. Fascinating though!

Nietzsche probably had brain cancer or some Brain related illness because he didn’t have the symptoms of syphilis.

I don’t think he was anti evolution. In fact he argued for a reevaluation of values around evolutionary theory

This type of conversation will never happen today. Pitty...

The use of the term "underdog" here is misleading, I think. Rather, Nietzsche contrasts, in all of us, that which is poor in spirit vs our potential for living life with a halcyon spirit. Think, Zorba the Greek. It is self-pity that Nietzsche sees as the enemy in this regard.

N_ promotes enaction through ways of least difficulty, rebus sic stantibus, insofar as capacitating both H. sapiens & H.sapiens (sapiens) whereas only the the H. sapiens(ssapiens) effectively accessing and processing synergy; logic that is common sense is entertainable by both.

Kinda nitpicking here but wasn’t there only one Borgia Pope?

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@ 34:44 Amen ;-)

Yeah aint they

How did we go from these wonderful people, to TikTok?

I used to be a Christian, life has taught me.

It's interesting how society has changed since this came out.I some ways it's freer I. NEICHZIE like manner in other ways more oppressive and geared up for the sheeple

In this 42min. vid. on Nietzsche there is no talk if Nihilism, how is that possible?

Early on Stern said N attack the church but not Christ from a personal POV because N’s father was a minister. When I heard this insight it seemed presumptive on two fronts,. It seems if you oppose the substance of a teaching, then you necessarily reject the teacher who advocates that substance. Now Stern said N rejects religion, the substance and those would be special people whom embrace the substance. The problem with ubermenchism is ignorance. If one is perfect, then that one has nothing to learn - obviously a step back. Calling Nietzsche a philosopher is tantamount to trusting those who wear patient leather white belts and similar shoes to own the bridges that they are selling.

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Dostoevsky strongly influenced Nietzsche’s philosophy. Crime and Punishment” addressed 30 years before Nietzsche the idea of the reevaluation of values by the Superman and the unconscious reaction to that

The Socratic Argy Bargy.

Nietzsche's own fate kinda goes to show that the recourse to pure willpower is a degeneration rather than progress, does it not? This little but uncomfortable detail seems to be carefully avoided by all subsequent philosophers.

Can I get some more context on this interview? Philosophy was discussed on TV?! Why can't we have this again? TV now is all garbage!

seems Nietzsche read a fair bit of Crime and Punishment and Raskolnikov's ideas before he started pouring it out second hand...

Nietzsche would have modified his philosophy somewhat if he saw the possibilities of annihilation our sciences have come to know. I think he would have relented and said, okay, great men on hold for a while; we have one goal: to get ourselves on other planets in other solar systems as quickly as we can. After that we can still go back to thinking of great men; if that even still makes any sense anymore…

He said pacific 😂

2023. He was right.

Was his misunderstanding of Darwin as follows. Did he presume Darwin to be ADVOCATING striving to pass on our genes, rather than merely describing our striving to stay alive and have sex while we're at it, which merely RESULTS in us passing on our genes?

A five year can sum up FN "Either you humble yourself and surrender to God or via your pride you raise yourself up and become your own God." Same story spoken a million times in the past. FN is not new and he made no new observations.

Makes Nietzsche very uninteresting. If values come from ourselves then love your neighbor as yourself can also come from yourself. We don’t need a God to tell us that this is a good and positive value. In fact it is because we have this value that we have developed the idea of God as Father. Also, I find Nietzsche’s idea of Beyond Good and Evil firmly established in the Christian idea that if one has the Spirit of Man (the Son of Man), or Christ within himself then there is no Law, but we are indeed a law unto ourselves. This is summed up in the famous “love and do as you please.” That is why Christians do not keep the sabbath, cut their baby’s penis, or obey dietary laws. The law is for lawbreakers. Is there a law for God? As Paul will later say, after Christ, “all the law and the prophets (Nietzsche?) are summed up in a single word (strangely not faith, or Jesus, or God), Love your neighbor as yourself.” (That is quite a Word.)

Like Wittgenstein, Nietzsche's work is totally unoriginal. Nietzsche's thought is just a reworking/rewording of Protagoras and Callicles.

two commies don't understand nietzsche, but will talk about it no problem.

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