But at least his descendants became great comedians.
Posted on 10/26/2021 9:29:36 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
00:00 Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History/1. Fascinated by history 03:36 2. What is philosophy of history? 04:46 Part 2. Explaining Nazism Philosophically/3. How could Nazism happen? 06:17 4. Five weak explanations for National Socialism 14:31 5. Explaining Nazism philosophically 21:40 Part 3. National Socialist Philosophy/6. The Nazi Party Program 22:44 7. Collectivism, not individualism 24:01 8. Economic socialism, not capitalism 27:40 9. Nationalism, not internationalism or cosmopolitanism 32:25 10. Authoritarianism, not liberal democracy 35:21 11. Idealism, not politics as usual 38:42 12. Nazi democratic success 41:05 Part 4. The Nazis in Power/13. Political controls 43:27 14. Education 51:28 15. Censorship 55:32 16. Eugenics 1:05:16 17. Economic controls 1:11:37 18. Militarization 1:15:55 19. The Holocaust 1:20:31 20. The question of Nazism’s philosophical roots 1:24:58 Part 5. Nietzsche’s Life and Influence/21. Who was Friedrich Nietzsche? 1:27:56 22. God is dead 1:30:27 23. Nihilism’s symptoms 1:34:20 24. Masters and slaves 1:46:05 25. The origin of slave morality 2:01:53 26. The Overman 2:10:44 Part 6. Nietzsche against the Nazis/27. Five differences 2:12:08 28. On the “blond beast” and racism 2:15:19 29. On contemporary Germans 2:16:53 30. On anti-Semitism 2:18:36 31. On the Jews 2:21:10 32. On Judaism and Christianity 2:24:27 33. Summary of the five differences 2:26:06 Part 7. Nietzsche as a Proto-Nazi/34. Anti-individualism and collectivism 2:36:38 35. Conflict of groups 2:39:31 36. Instinct, passion, and anti-reason 2:43:42 37. Conquest and war 2:48:36 38. Authoritarianism 2:52:00 39. Summary of the five similarities 2:53:18 Part 8. Conclusion: Nazi and Anti-Nazi Philosophies/40. Hindsight and future resolve 2:57:34 41. Principled anti-Nazism
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The Nazis were a few philosophical steps down from Nietzsche, but I only learned recently that Nietzsche himself started out greatly admiring American Ralph Waldo Emerson
In 1884, Nietzsche described Emerson as, “a glorious, great nature, rich in soul and spirit” and pronounced Emerson to be, “the author who has been the richest in ideas in this century.”
Please explain. What specifically did he like about Emerson?
I’m certainly not a Nietzsche scholar, but here is a basic video on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr2PY4HTevQ&list=PL7vtNjtsHRepjR1vqEiuOQS_KulUy4z7A&t=65s
Nietzsche is misunderstood and much of that misunderstanding has resulted in a prostitution of his philosophy. “God is dead” and nihilism are not an intended goal or a desirous conclusion but was Nietzsche’s observation of the direction of western cultural. The Übermensch (superman) was suppose to represent an evolution beyond our current condition, which has resulted in the death of god and nihilism, and who would return a sense of spirituality to our existence.
Nietzsche’s writings were edited after his death by his sister who changed much of his work to endorse anti-Semitism and nationalism, which Nietzsche opposed as examples of the problems creating the nihilistic culture he was observing. Those who link Nietzsche with the rise of the Nazi’s misunderstand his philosophy. What most people assume Nietzsche was endorsing was in fact what he was objecting to...
The author of this book spells out with specificity where Nietzsche diverged from Nazism, especially their violent anti-Semitism, and where they intersected, collectivism, anti-Democracy, etc. The fact that his sister was twisting his work around is not accounted for, and it certainly complicates the thesis. What interests me is that the Nazism that grew out of the misuse of Nietzsche, still lives and is as virulent in leftardist creations such as BLM, Antifa and CRT, such as the belief that life is a zero-sum game, that violence and irrationality are legitimate...
Agreed; the parallels between the progressive left and the Nazi’s is both fascinating and frightening...
BTTT
Nietzsche was just talkin’. He never seriously expected any of that. He probably would have been horrified by what the Nazis did. These leftos KNOW what the Nazis did, and they want to learn from them, all the while calling anyone who disagrees with them Nazis!
Y’know, Nietzsche says: “Out of chaos comes order.”
Sounds like something Bachunin might have said. I’m sure Nietzsche wasn’t an anarchist. Problem with hotshot intellectuals. They don’t mind contradicting themselves, but idiots take portions of their body of work that appeal to them and run with it.
Nietzsche was a lot like Marx. Both were pretentious and vastly overrated ne’er-do-wells who accomplished nothing of note during their lives, living by the largess of their betters, only to become bizarrely venerated by socialists, academics pseudo-intellectuals after their deaths.
And Marx turned into a Marxist!
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