Friedrich Nietzsche | The Greek State | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
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This essay was originally slated to appear in Nietzsche's first book The Birth of Tragedy. In the essay, Nietzsche takes a critical look at modern liberal society and capitalism and concludes that its key ideals, 'the dignity of man' and the 'dignity of work', are illusions. Instead, Nietzsche offers a look at his aristocratic understanding of the state.
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Timestamps:
00:30 The text
02:00 Two modern ideas: The dignity of man. The dignity of labor.
04:32 Yet, few philosophies and religions place a value on existence.
07:20 The emergence of artistic culture
10:40 The Greeks knew that labor is a disgrace. It has no dignity.
12:04 Man who works for his existence cannot become an artist.
13:36 Modern workers are cursed with beliefs in dignity.
15:40 What about art then? Its creation or appreciation?
19:13 Culture rests on a terrible basis.
19:55 The majority serves the minority.
20:40 Slavery is of the essence of culture
22:34 The misery of the toiling majority makes possible the production of art for a small minority.
23:54 Religion and its dependence on slavery
27:26 The proper role of the state
31:43 The weak accept their new lower status and worship their leaders
34:27 Might one run away when they see the true origin of the state?
36:00 The Greeks also submerged their interests into the state.
38:40 The consequences for culture and art
42:44 The liberals and capitalists vs. those who love the fatherland
48:06 War is necessary for the state just as slavery is necessary for society
50:10 We must correct this notion of the dignity of man and labor
52:20 Man is not an end in himself
53:05 A favorable look back at Plato
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Thank you professor Hicks for providing us with the interpretations of the philosophers’ text that is the closest to the actual intentions of the writers.
Thank you
43:55 "those truly international homeless money-hermits" --- surely, he's referring to you-know-who?
Would a view that work is dirty or shameful indicate a mind body dichotomy that hasn’t integrated the practical necessities of man’s life?
A society can only consume what it produces, so productive work is an altruistic, pro - social activity that makes everyone better off. Of course, Nietzsche does not seem to have been a fan of altruism. His philosophy seems to me to be designed to justify self serving tyrannies. Further, history shows that there is a huge risk in having a large class of inferiors who will hew your wood and draw your water. How did that work out for pre - Exilic Israel or how did it work out in South Africa or Rhodesia or in Haiti in an earlier generation? Ethnies do better to hew their own wood and draw their own water while minimizing barriers to gene flow within the ethny. Of course, this idea would have repulsed Nietzsche who deplored ethnic nationalism with as much passion as any cosmopolitan liberal or Marxist.
American slavery was doing anything but creating a better man. Nietzsche sounds like any young idealist with all the naïveté and mistakes of youth. Why he became important enough to study?
While Nietzsche was indeed a brilliant philosopher, he was also clearly a top level narcissist.
Are you a psychiatrist? And even if you were, you must consult to diagnose a form of psychopathology., which is narcissism.
@@Nicolas_Carras Sometimes it is obvious. Even Lothrop Stoddard, who was an enthusiast for both eugenics and theories of racial hierarchy in the 1920s, and was open minded about National Socialism in the 1930s, said that Nietzsche was a psychopath, not exactly the same thing, but the two are very similar with a lot of comorbidity. And obviously any guy who spends the last decade of his life in a mental asylum is likely to have had some serious psychological problems.