Evola is to be read as a philosopher-poet, evoking images of myths and the characters of their heroes, plots often fictional but perhaps for that very reason often psychologically effective for those who suffer greatly from the state of the contemporary world and cling to its change.
For me, what distinguishes Evola from Nietzsche is how the Uberman comes Iin to existance. For Nietzsche, the Uberman wills himself into existance, but for Evola, the Uberman is the result of a society and a culture that nurtures through trials, tribulations, and glorious combat, a man who'll ultimately persevere in building a place to rest from those antagonistic forces. The Uberman is Evola's brick in a civilizational structure where society and culture are the mortar.
What also distinguishes them is that Evola was clearly a fascist, racist and misogynist. From Wikipedia: Writings by Evola contain misogyny, racism, and antisemitism. Evola advocated for Fascist Italy's racial laws and eventually became Italy's leading "racial philosopher".
@@moiome perhaps you should read Revolt against the modern world or Ride the Tiger for yourself, and not rely on the trash Wikipedia allows commies to write about people they do not like.
@iamKristianBell weirdly I think many people do, I just think lots of content creators just rip him off and tout his ideas as their own. I've seen it atleast a couple of times.
It will be impossible to popularize Julius at the moment. A "superfacist" is doomed to be misunderstood in this social climate, dominated by all the forces he stood against.
@@ErnestSamuels-u4q No. Because Nietzsche rejects the concept of transcendence, while his ideas are transcendental in a way, which Evola exposes and take as a base for his own ideas, in overcoming it’s contraditions ( from evola’s own perspective ) and setting the internal « more than the world » conviction as a base for it not to fall into nihilism.
The image commonly associated with the Übermensch is not quite the same as what Nietzsche wrote about the concept in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. - The Übermensch is not a specific image for people to model themselves after, but a representation of the process of self-overcoming, or Transcendence as Evola would describe it. The description of the Übermensch was intentionally ambiguous, because it was not meant as a set of commandments about what one should or shouldn't be. It is a universal concept to describe a process which is inherently personal, and will seem empty when only considered at this level. The actual "end" to the process of self-overcoming is different for every man, requiring him to understand his true nature and channel his instincts towards the higher aim which he creates out of himself. The significant difference between this and Evola's concept is that Evola emphasizes tradition and mysticism as means of reaching one's true essence while Nietzsche is focused on individuality and the physical world. - Nietzsche admired the martial-aristocratic ethos, due to both personal affinity and the understanding that it was a necessary cure for the weakness and mediocrity of modernity. The warrior virtues- will to power, courage, discipline, and physical vitality - are necessary for a strong and energetic civilization, the foundation upon which a higher culture (which was always the "end" for Nietzsche) can flourish. However, the idea that a man of a peaceful and contemplative disposition should transform himself into an aggressive warlord, if that is not his nature, is not supported by his philosophy. "Thou shalt become what thou art." - People make the mistake, due to a misreading of On the Genealogy of Morality, of assuming that his description of ancient barbarian races who raped and pillaged for fun was intended as an example for modern men to follow. He understood the violence and cruelty at the root of culture, but never suggested that modern men cast off millennia of civilization and emulate the behavior of bronze age barbarians. What he opposed was the promotion of pacifism, pity, and selflessness as a universal doctrine. - I would recommend anyone who sees Nietzsche's ideal as cruel and negative to read the chapter on The Bestowing Virtue from Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Here, the highest virtue, described as a healthy selfishness, is the possession of an overabundance of life which makes everything one touches richer and more meaningful as a result. It is contrasted with a sickly selfishness which only knows how to take. The idea of higher men bestowing value upon life through their inner riches is present throughout Nietzsche's philosophy, from his early concept of the Genius, to the aforementioned chapter of Zarathustra, to his later concept of the Dionysian man. From my knowledge of Evola, his main criticism of Nietzsche's philosophy is the fact that his ideals, as similar as they may have been to his own, were not grounded in any notion of metaphysical truth. For Evola, what is good is all that brings one closer to the higher world of Being. For Nietzsche, the only thing good in a universal sense is power. The problem Evola saw in Nietzsche is that there is no fundamental reason why the will to power of a greater man should be favored over the will to power of the resentful masses. I can think of several counterarguments from the Nietzschean perspective (i.e. weak, resentful men inherently impoverish life), but Evola's position was that a metaphysically-grounded doctrine of Transcendence was necessary to avoid spiraling into nihilistic relativism.
What is the difference between Evola's belief that virtue be grounded in metaphysics and Christian belief that purpose be derived from God? Isn't Evola's belief that there is no fundamental reason for pursuing power without metaphysical grounding the same as a Christian believing objective morality doesn't exist if there is no God?
This is what Christianity is currently struggling with. Rather than allowing humans to decide their own highest individual law, it prescribes one. The shoe fits many, but cramps others. Philosophy is about compatibility more than anything else. One should find whatever literature he may need to help him pursue his highest goals. Religions often confuse utilitarianism as universal truth because it works for many, but not all. Nietzsche was simply living out what it meant to be his best self. It doesn’t mean we all need to believe in his concepts. Taking his philosophy literally means following it, but truly understanding means throwing it out and making your own. It’s an inspiration nonetheless.
How does a religion struggle with that which makes it a religion lol. It wouldn't be a religion without God prescribing his law. You confuse religion with philosophy.
@@Thomas-xd4cx The search for truth and way of life is the purpose of both religion and philosophy. The extent to which it serves a culture is how it can be measured. Christianity itself is failing in the West because it is a shitty life rejecting philosophy.
@@Jsinebdjsmdbej yeah, quite a significant difference. And to make it even more apt, it’s about the application of it in modern man, not in that which the teachings prescribe.
@@Thomas-xd4cx no, I’m actually siding with him, I’m actually saying that his original critique has nothing to do with whether or not Christianity is a religion, like he could have just as easily said that that is what is wrong with modern religion. Law is super important, the difference between modern and ancient religion, is ancient religions respected true spirituality for the complete and utter danger that it truly is, complete openness, the destruction of law. And therefore it was seen as a companion to law, something that was safe to indulge in connection with a separate (in this case, not in general) earthly rule of law (commandments). Modern spirituality, best summarized by “Christianity” believes in the notion that spirituality is how one can come into connection with earthly temporal commandments of practicality which it calls divine law, but it is entirely the opposite. True spirituality is to connect with the divine nihilism which sits at the center of all things, and which gives birth to meaning. It is as potentially destructive as it is connected to order. It isn’t one or the other. It inevitably leads to order, as it is the source of all things, but it is actually the destruction of order and law, not where we find it written out, like in the stone tablets.
@@daddyfuse50Now, we all know what a few of the political consequences of that ideal would look like. Not said in a negative or necessarily positive way, btw.
This entire argument feels like semantics. Obviously the Ubermench is not literally Napoleon or Julius Caesar. Obviously the Ubermench can be things other than aggressive ambitious warlords. Nietzsche himself was a writer. Cmon man.
The best lesson I've learned from Nietsche : Never allow your intellect to make others feel weak or "less than" Nietsche works if you can make sure to apply that 1 rule on top of everything else But that 1 rule excludes some of the philosophy behind it
Don't lean into your archetype - find out which archetype you currently fit - then study every other archetype and apply their lessons DO NOT PICK JUST 1
I disagree, I find meditation totally overrated. I tried it for a while and got nothing out of it. I found it extremely boring, nothing at all transcendent about it. Maybe I just "did it wrong."
and act your belief.some meditate about eating healthy and dont eat healthy. carefull not fall into self deception and stagnation. illusion. meditation is great. but some use it to dream ajd wishfull thing and not respect their physical body and physical reality
@@whitemakesright2177or you dont really do inquiry or relax. or relax enough. you maybe stoic about being simple at applting task requied for your goals and sony really need to sit down relax sit sown inquire. i medidtate by tuneling vision into jogging. after 6 hours i dont feel my legs running. meditation can be aplyed during movement. its just some state if mind. eome are stressed. meditate life while acting life
you find it boring? and why do you think focusing on your breath supposed to be a very stimulating thing to begin with? you did'nt do it wrong, you just never did it.
00:02 Julius Evola's philosophy for higher men 02:34 Evola's philosophy focuses on the concept of the Transcendent and its significance for higher types of humans. 05:14 Manifesting your strongest archetype of who you are 07:49 Embracing internal law and self-discipline for higher evolution 10:14 Transcend the pursuit of pleasure and embrace radical acceptance of life 12:44 Evola's philosophy focuses on transcending pain and pleasure for a higher ideal 15:11 Absolute inner Freedom is achieved through self-overcoming and conquering the lower nature. 17:31 Evola's philosophy focuses on taming inner dragons for ultimate freedom. 19:40 Superiority to one's individuality is the mark of a great leader 21:50 Evola's traditionalism focuses on inner order to manifest Divine kingship. Julius Evola's philosophy for higher men - Julius Evola's philosophy focuses on the concept of the Ubermensch as the ideal for humanity, representing an aspiration beyond pettiness and self-gratification. - Evola's philosophy serves as an inspiring symbol of man at his pinnacle, offering an antidote to the weakness and confusion prevalent in modern culture. Evola's philosophy focuses on the concept of the Transcendent and its significance for higher types of humans. - Evola's concept of the Transcendent represents the domain of energy and potential within higher types of humans, leading to the activation of the will to power. - Evola's perspective differs from Nietzsche's as he sees the Ubermensch as a manifestation of the Transcendent, not the ultimate goal of life. Manifesting your strongest archetype of who you are - Man must acquire the power to mold his ego into a perfect vehicle for his soul. - The goal for Evola is to become truly and fully yourself, to be ruled from the superior world. Embracing internal law and self-discipline for higher evolution - By aligning with internal law, higher man finds strength in adversity and turns suffering into advantage. - Evola promotes self-discipline by not succumbing to passions but holding them in check. Transcend the pursuit of pleasure and embrace radical acceptance of life - Evola emphasizes sublimating carnal lust into a wild ecstatic feeling of creation and aiming for the pinnacle embodiment of oneself and culture. - He advocates mastering passions with simplicity, striving for greatness of character and higher courage to stand above all that is inferior. Evola's philosophy focuses on transcending pain and pleasure for a higher ideal - Conviction to a higher ideal leads to awakening to one's essence and living in service to mankind. - Heroism is a key aspect in preserving a superior species of man by claiming the right to exceptional acts and victory over oneself. Absolute inner Freedom is achieved through self-overcoming and conquering the lower nature. - Conquering the lower nature through exposure to danger and adversity leads to higher Freedom. - Sovereignty is achieved by denouncing confusion between discipline and enfeeblement and turning passions to one's advantage. Evola's philosophy focuses on taming inner dragons for ultimate freedom. - Evola emphasizes gaining dominance over inner desires for strength and self-mastery. - Evola's philosophy transcends discipline, aiming to become a magnanimous leader and point the way to freedom. Superiority to one's individuality is the mark of a great leader - Virtue comes from rising over oneself and acting from a higher vantage point - Values attainable only through transcendence and awakening the feeling of transcendence within Evola's traditionalism focuses on inner order to manifest Divine kingship. - Traditionalism emphasizes inherent structures in reality and oneself for true state. - The goal is aligning intellect and will to manifest highest self and state.
@@woofy9977 unlike you cringe yanks Evola bros, I actually read his books and know that he was right on one thing: americans are stupid. that's why he s so successful over there
Y'all are so ill equipped for anything even resembling a confrontation, no less assimilation with that of The True Tiger's trajectory. Ya dont get Nietzsche. [nor have you read him. So no wonder there, ya meme guzzlers] & Evola was a dork. A fitting master for ye, he. [The latter]
Thanks a lot bro , I’ve been in a slump the last year on and off because of health issues . But this video is helping me reconnect with ideas and feelings I’ve felt possessed by for a long time .
Julius Evola deserves a certain level of condemnation for some of his beliefs and how he lived his life, but there are valuable insights within his work as well. I believe the primary reason people are eager to label him as entirely negative and dismiss him completely is his views challenge current societal issues. Disregarding his beliefs, labeling him wholly bad, and condemning anyone who engages with his work promotes self-censorship for those who could genuinely benefit from exploring his philosophy.
8:45 Asceticism*. Which from what I understand is to use ones will power to undergo voluntary stress and resist distractions or temptations in order to train ones self to not only endure or undergo the challenges of life easily, but to also seek or welcome those challenges in order to overcome them and grow as a result. That's one way too look at asceticism.
I think that the overarching problem with people that praise philosophers and philosphies is that you are all too prone to misunderstanding and gullibility, you look for what fits your current perspective, not challenge it, you will be onto the next one as soon as your perspective drifts... your perception of focus is merely a lens on your confusion, people here praise trascendence, evola himself does, yet you come onto this world and bring it... what it already had? so you are of this world after all, and your self praise of transcendence is but talk... you feed your ego and forge an identity built on thoughts... wow
confirmation bias is rampant in philosophy, I agree, however I still find the pursuit essential , we are all making sense of the world whether we call it philosophy or not, and so I believe your post can serve to sharpen philosophy. If you havent already, you my like Wittgenstein's take based on your comment
Excellent presentation. It reminded me of a quote I love. “Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He that noblest lives and dies, keeps his self made laws.”
For his nuance alliance with Fascist Italy, he's a great complement for Nietzsche and breath of fresh air in the mountains of "Spirit" Amor Fati my companion.
"Nuance(d) alliance" 😂 lmao you mean the part where he was a literal, commited fascist til the day he died? There was no nuance. He not only "bought" the fascist ideology, he was in large part responsible for shaping it himself. Dude fled to nazi germany when the fascist regime fell in italy, then went back to italy to build the neofascist movement to rebuild/replace fascism in italy (a tree that is beginning to bear fruit these days..) Evola was a fascist. This is not merely incidental to his philosophy, it is deeply imbedded within it. It is *central* to it.
@@coyoteblue4027 yeah, the traditionalist road is a slippery slope for philosophers because sooner or later it turns out the tradition they talk about is the one of the survival of the chaddest
@@coyoteblue4027You're talking rubbish, Evola was purely a traditionalist and he viewed everything by that perspective, he was critical of fascism seeing in it anti traditional elements, he wrote a book "Fascism viewed by the right"
you think the ubermench is the dominating, aggressive and the arrogant?! - it is an ideal that is never meant to be reached. it has no form but what it becomes from its subject and their ability to sacrifice whatever they are for a better version.
Haven't read Evola but have been reading N all my life. I do not see anything new here to validly claim a "better" Nietzsche or Superman. All the virtues you mentioned are in his N's books if you've read them enough. N's books are literally a set of predictions and description of the Ubermensch including and especially the ones that seem unrelated to it.
Reminds me of - TRIZ which suggest that the ideal to a solution is to sharpen contradictions to the point where they achieve ideality. Which is in the spirit of Aristotle : seek out abstinence with the mind set of a someone who values the good life. Embrace discomfort not for its own sake but as symptom of growth.
wrote down the 10 principles in the back of my copy of meditations by marcus aurelius. Never heard of julius evola but i have a feeling i could learn a lot from him
@@GhostofTraditionno one fears him he is a snake and it doesn’t take more than 5 minutes of critical thinking to realize it. Plus his ideas are the backbone of fascism, especially neo fascism
Have been pondering how formal educated philosophers will comprehend and interpret our existence and being, we just am, their really isn’t a central philosophy we live by, am sure u could place it in one or another roughly in similarity.
Equality doesnt mean that we are all equal in ability, as if we are all endowed with the same will to learn, achieve, develop, it is these qualities that produce different and unique individual outcomes.
What is the scalability of Ubermensch? can the world handle having everyone being a "child"? what will happen to communities if everyone's interests, morals, values are different and uniquely tied to the individual? will it not be challenging to create a middle ground and even harder to keep the community not destroy itself because of extreme individualism?
Nietzsche never claimed everybody should or can be the ubermensch . Most people are prey by nature and can not reach it regardless of their efforts . He wanted a place when the men capable of becoming one , can do so and aren’t being dragged down by the herds morals and beliefs
Yes, but as with most every problem the correct answer at one level of analysis is incorrect at another. The axioms for such a life must be truly fractal and apply at each level and all levels of experience simultaneously. The men who aim for such a life but who are incapable of such fundamentalism will confuse their pompous and obstinate attitudes for higher reason and will damn themselves and all around them. The men capable of such a thing do not themselves believe that they are, but one day find that everyone else says they've arrived.
Nietzsche did not think that everyone could aspire to that level of individuality. He considered most people to be followers by nature, hence the tension between Higher Men and the Herd. This contrast is important because the Herd needs Higher Men to give them values, law, and purpose beyond mere survival, and Higher Men ultimately need the Herd as a sculptor needs a block of stone, as their creative potential will amount to nothing if they cannot make an impact beyond themselves. Throughout his work, Nietzsche does not long for a future in which every person aspires to be a creator of values, but one where Higher Men have the capacity to shape the destiny of mankind. Not everyone is meant to follow the same path, and encouraging a universal middle ground would prevent people from embracing the way of life which is most suitable for them. Breaking down the distinction between leaders and followers leads to a sort of confused formlessness where everyone wants to believe that they are "free" and "self-actualized" while still feeling the need to stay within the acceptable boundaries of the collective; the masses aimlessly follow each other and independent men with the instinct to lead end up unfulfilled.
11:23. Taoists say that virtue isn’t virtuous if it is concerned with being so. “…Not feeling any satisfaction thereby.” You aren’t doing it to do it, there’s a higher thing that the lower passions obscure from your sight.
I Haven’t read Evola’s book, but if those are his points, I would think that he didn’t read much of Nietzsche’s books. Nietzsche was eventually upset of the overall “Humane” condition of “Humans”. He invented “übermensch“ to break free Man from every identity and identification known and unknown hitherto. To evolve from being human to something totally different. An actual God on earth. Look at it like this: Man evolved from a Monkey, now he has to evolve from Man to Übermensch. So he wasn’t trying to fix the condition, rather fully eliminate the man and his condition by the birth of that “star”. He wasn’t trying to solve a problem, he was trying to end the solutions and the problems by this “Übermensch“.
17:16 "all the passions have been discredited thanks to those who were not strong enough to turn them to their advantage" Is this why you consider fear to be 'bad', undesirable and something to overcome? Is this why you believe in negative emotions: merely because you were not strong enough to turn the emotion to your advantage. because you cannot turn fear to your advantage you would rather not feel it at all? Doesn't this just diminish from the economy of life in terms of the energy and resolve at your disposal. Likewise does choosing not to feel an emotion limit our awareness of ourselves.
9:51 the weak will always see suffering as evil; the strong will see it as a glorious opportunity. ( i like this alot) the concept of evil does not exist? only incompetence exists: all was good before it became bad, and this reveals to us what we could and could not endure (eg. our limitations)
3:00 Nietzsche believed his impulses urged him to affirm all of life as desirable (this is what it meant to Nietzsche to become superhuman). He believed this to be some type of accomplishment that would make lesser men appear as apes: from such a perspective the development of the superhuman is part of the evolutionary process (a striving; but inevitable). You make the argument that Nietzsche may have confused the means as ends: Is your argument that Nietzsche was wrong? It seems to me as though Nietzsche and Evola were in agreement: Evola talks about the transcendent as though it was a type of intelligence, likewise does Nietzsche regard impulses as a type of intelligence, which would imply that we are getting acted upon by forces that have their own prerogatives. Both philosophers seek to discover what these prerogatives are: what is the prerogative of an impulse? What is this grand design for which we are made into actors. Evolution, but to what end?
Never search for wisdom in a singular location or source. The wisest amongst us, learned from many masters, and yet still learn. For though we call them masters, their wisdom allows them to realize how much they still have to learn.
In my opinion, what's missing from Evola's book, and what nobody talks about, is how to discover oneself, how to find one's properly traditional essence, and not fall into the modern self-made-man. So, if you have any research proposals, I'm open...
receive ALL THINGS with thankfulness. Train your mind to appreciate every experience. LIFE IS LIFE, THE REST IS ATTITUDE. Beyond "indifference" to privation, hardships, life itself, BE THANKFUL for privation, hardships, life itself, and you will ABSOLUTELY ENJOY ALL THAT IS LIFE.
you cant call that part of you that needs to be overcome the 'little self': remember we are meant to be in veneration of the part that resist us. We are to admire that which resists us otherwise veneration and celebration do not necessarily follow.
I did all this in the face of a bully of a boss and a toxic work environment. I almost lost myself to surfacing the incredible pain, anger, and disgust. But suddenly I found strength in madness that dissipated into calmness. They shot me down as hard as they could. I've been on leave with pay while they investigate for 2.5 months now. All I did was tell a story with philosophy and norse mythology and a lot of trickery in meaning words in a slack channel for socializing 😈.
Nietzsche wrote "If humanity lacks a goal, then does it not lack humanity itself?". His goal, of course, was the overman, but that's sufficient to "redeem" life, as it creates something beautiful and life-affirming. He also wrote "You should become who you are" and "If you have your own virtue, you have it in common with no one". Nietzsche in no way encouraged everyone to be the same. In Zarathustra he even encourages his disciples to go their own way, writing something like "Only when you have denied me shall I return to you". All the laws are Nietzschean. All the quotes you give are Nietzsches words, for Evola is just paraphrasing Nietzsche. "What matters my happiness?" is written in Zarathustra. Also "As much as you give your friend I will give even to my enemy, and would not be poorer for it." Great natures are "overflowing", they crave to give like those in poverty crave to receive. Nietzsche only lacks magnanimity because "great warriors don't want to be spared" and because refusing to let weakness die creates a kind of reverse eugenics.
I just feel like he ELABORATED on Nietzsche. He doesn’t seem to have a different take. It never seemed like Nietzsche was speaking of power in a general basic sense. I think he was legitimately just saying what Evola is saying. Evola just explained his idea
16:06 'only when you need strength will you become strong' (I disagree) Only people who believe they are strong fail to become strong: they remain weak because they do not see the need to improve. Conversely: people who believe they are weak are always becoming stronger. In summa the disagreement is this: beliefs make you strong, not circumstances. But circumstances can give rise to beliefs, and if the circumstance is a common experience for many, it can give rise to culture, a shared system of belief designed for the greatest number.
8:39 regarding fearless strength: I disagree that we should call this type of strength fearless. Fear is unpleasant but not something we cannot turn to our advantage; the person who desires things to resist him would welcome fear. perhaps you should call it the fearful strength. fear offers us that resistance we need to affirm our own self worth to ourselves. It is desirable.
10:08 , Just curious where does Nietzsche ever say we should renounce our passions? This seems almost the opposite of everything he's ever said. Likewise, Nietzsche affirms that all human behavior, whether we call it passionate or rational, is ultimately a channel of the will to power. There isn't a self that exists separate from the passions to renounce or use passions there just is the will.
Interesting video. I've never read Evola, but based on what I've learned of his ideas here, he really doesn't seem to add anything new to Nietzsche's project.
18:43 "to point the way of those who, free from all bonds, obeying only their own law, are unbending in obedience to it and above all human weakness" I disagree that the strongest among us obey only their own law: I believe it is more appropriate to say that the strongest among us are the most immoral. They disregard morality in favour of a sentiment: consider the fact that we never consent to a sentiment. Does this not mean that the strongest among us take direction from a sentiment and not their own law? What precedes the ego's development? How did we learn to learn? It was intuitive: the sentiment preceded everything.
I resonate with this emperor mentality. was born into it. In the wilds of Africa. Uncivilised Lion. I'm a Tarzan. But when I came upon society they convinced me for a hot minute I was a sheep just like them. I tried to do sheeple things like go bababa and eat grass old day and get eaten, but i just couldn't not matter how hard I tried. I cant be what i am not. Thanks for introducing me to this man. i am going to read his book. Subscribed. Btw i am a real sufi muslim(rare nowadays). And i know with full conviction that Islam makes a man the most masculine, in his true emperor soul status. Its the culmination, and apex of all knowledge if you put the effort of study into its esoteric side. If you truly absolutely submit to the infinite light, it will transform and transmute you to the highest plains of consciences from a lesser loathful creature. We call it Alchemy- the science of spirituality to turn lead(lesser state,useless) to gold( higher state,usefull). In the alchemic process we have to burn in devasting blaze and in the ruins of the ashes we are reborn like a majestic immortal phoenix into our highest positions in this universes and beyond-OUR BIRTHRIGHT. Your heights are determined by the amount of pain. Thats why i pray to God everyday to let the flame roar like the lion i am and consume me but also to take care of me and make me a man strong and capable enough to handle the heat that turns lead in the furnace of the fire of life to dazzling, pure GOLD. Death of the mortal body is liberation of this soul. so we better cultivate high level soul force before death. Through the liberation of the soul in death, you character gets released into eternity. so when i am liberated, my light will be infinitely magnified into the loving embrace of my beloved eternity- eternal paradise. But if you refuse the work and drain your soul to darkness in death by following Ibleese The Eternally Accursed(demons) you will be in infinite darkness for eternity-thats hell. The reason i really resonate with this video is because its very similar in our view of masculinity and the highest ideals of excellence. Islam taught me that I am made in the image of the most exalted and I am a khalifa-caliph(ruler,authority over this planet-Birth right for all man) and he breathed his Created spirit into me. Imagine fully believing and being convicted by this? what would it do to a mans mind? btw islam also speaks supremely of women, they are also made in his image and spirit. Signed with love.❤🔥
You are a neurotic, not a lion. And these channels are for lonely men who want to overcome their insignificance, which capitalism, which turns them into interchangeable products, overcomes with a little mysticism and elitist chatter. It remains clumsy for people who understand. Check dialectical materialism or or remain an immature mind.
I do not agree with Julius Evola, and would take a similar stance that Russell takes towards Mosley. I highly recommend anyone looking to develop their rational faculty to read Immanuel Kant's "What is Enlightenment?" It is a short article that highlights the importance of thinking for oneself, and the importance of genuine conversation and freedom in the public sphere in order to benefit ourselves and our society. Kant, of course, universalizes the individual too broadly and ignores the fact that we all emerge from distinct material and historical contexts, but "What is Enlightenment" is a fantastic introduction to anyone looking to see the importance of rational discussion and freedom in our lives.
As a Nietzschean i disagree with Evolas critique of the Übermensch and the will to power. Evola says: Power in itself is formless. It has no sense on the basis of a given 'being' an internal direction and essential unity. When that is wanting, everything slides back into chaos. "Here we have the greatest strength, but it does not know what it is gor. The means exist but they have no end." I Argue that the will to power is the essential driving force of life it is not essential that we consciously seek power, but subconsciously we do actions that are driving us to increase our power. The whole act of having an internal direction is an act of the will to power also there is no end to it since the means of life is the constant increase of power.
you mention that their are good emotions and bad emotions: I do not understand the reason for the distinction. people who are prejudice towards types emotion I call idiots of human experience (they dont feel: they are timmid). it actually makes no sense to say that an emotion that has developed for reasons of evolutionary necessity is 'bad' or undesirable because they are necessary; it is incomprehensible. These people protest against what 'is' (how they feel) in favour of how things 'ought' be, they protest too much and in the process become pathological, they believe they 'ought' be happy.
Please more Evola's philosophy. I want to learn about him more but the videos I found were pretty darn confusing and incomprehensible. Love your videos.
Amazing lmao. It happens in the present moment. That energy is accessible and like a brick layer. You can lay ubermensch bricks or maintenance bricks. Every truth is but a half truth. So at some point the law of diminishing returns transitions me from evolution (moving higher) to ego building (moving across). Which i think helps the evolution in the long run.
Just a side note for people who think this guy is all fun and games... Evola advocated for Fascist Italy's racial laws, and eventually became Italy's leading "racial philosopher". In May 1951, Evola was arrested in Italy and charged with promoting the revival of the Fascist Party, and of glorifying Fascism. Evola declared that he was not a Fascist but was instead "superfascista" ( lit. 'superfascist').He is still liked by many ultranationalist far-right and fascist organizations and groups in Europe today.
Yes Sir, indeed. I'm a historian by education, and can confirm that all this is true. And more. Plus, some of my ancestors were actual fascists, in the WW2 era, even actual Italian ones. Which - didn't end well. For anybody. Plus, I've also personaly lived through that. For real. 🤐 In my country of Ex-Yugoslavia - I'm in Croatia, but that's the same thing - there was not only very such kind of a real deal major war, again, after WW2, for a second time, in my youth in the 1990s, but there were also intellectual justifications, or even - intellectual (and very intelligent, elaborate, and seductive, let me tell you, btw 😎) precursors to all that. Especially in Serbia (but we all were reading all that here), I can point out to one man, a painter, journalist and a writer, by the name - Dragoš Kalajić, who was propagating this very ideology here, he called it "one vorldview", 'Jedan pogled na svet', a 'Weltanschauung'. And not only that but he actualy studied in Rome, on the Accademia di belle arti, in the 1960s, and was of course in the circle of J. Evola himself. All that was, I will say that again - very seductive ideology, but, fortunately for me, I never truly lost my traditional - Faith. And came back to Christianity, fully, discarding all ideologies of that bloody 20th century. Because I consider all of those 'dividing lines' between them, all those 'ideological packages' - prescribed today, or, sadly, for such a long time by now, to be - all wrong - dividing lines and false choices. 🧠 Made deliberately as such, in the final instance, or first - by the Devil of course. 😎 Just to confuse people and lead them astray, by that, always the same, simplest playbook ever - 'Divide et Impera'. 🧠😊
@@ZecZli this was very interesting to read. I am shocked when people talk about people like Evola as if he's all self help. He was an evil person with an evil ideology. Yes there is 0 disclaimer on a video spreading his ideology and calling it superior and asking stupid questions like "why isn't he more popular??" I am so suspicious of this person claiming he doesn't know who Evola is and what he believed and how his philosophy tied into politics... either he is so ignorant he shouldn't make a video or he willfully ignored it which makes him supportive of it. Or he knows it and thinking its such a cool and as you said "seductive" way of thinking. My personal comment to you, since you seem like an educated man who knows that ideologies divide people... my friends Christianity and religion also divides people as they are also ideologies. They have been the cause of division since forever. Religion says I am right and everyone else is wrong. Consider this fact too. Think about why every fascist state was extremely Conservative Christian.
@@altaydogahan342 Christianity founded the morals of Western civilization. Society relies upon it. Christianity is more of a belief system than an ideology. What's your ideology that you would use to replace it?
How does he expect for man to become what he "really is" when man never can know what he truly is? Sure you can throw some words out there that may or may not sound good to a large perctage of people, but that doesn't conquer such a - dare I say impossible goal.
17:00 discipline is overrated and misunderstood as a good thing: conversely it takes no effort to be determined with discipline one must find resolve: those who are determined have already found their resolve determination is better than discipline: with one you need to drag your feet and force yourself to act, with the other action becomes reflex
how is discipline achieved: is discipline the freedom to act to your own disadvantage. To successfully discipline ourselves do we not also need to reduce the economy of emotions so that our impulses are weakenned? If we do not first weaken the impulses would they not interfere with the discipline?
All of this strikes me as adolescent power fantasies. If you have to be constantly saying to yourself “I am strong! I am The Ubermensch! I am superior to all these lesser beings that surround me!“ I would really have to conclude that you are profoundly and pathologically insecure
Evola advocated for Fascist Italy's racial laws,[10] and eventually became Italy's leading "racial philosopher".[11] Autobiographical remarks by Evola allude to his having worked for the Sicherheitsdienst, or SD, the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party.[12][13] He fled to Nazi Germany in 1943 when the Italian Fascist regime fell, but returned to Rome under the puppet Salò government to organize a radical-right group.[14][15][16][17] In 1945 in Vienna, a Soviet shell fragment paralysed him from the waist down.[18] On trial in 1951, Evola denied being a fascist and instead referred to himself as "superfascista" (lit. 'superfascist'). Concerning this statement, historian Elisabetta Cassina Wolff wrote that "It is unclear whether this meant that Evola was placing himself above or beyond Fascism".[19]
A broken clock is right twice a day. he was also very influential in his writings on mysticism, not just stoic philosophy, or politics. Bad people can have good ideas sometimes.
It’s just a style, a preference, a personality. Philosophies are simply perspectives, none truer than the other. You will believe what you will, your biology and environment will make sure of that. Nietzsche believed what he believed for the same reasons. Sidenote: reason relies on presuppositions, which are unreasonable. The foundation of truth is unreasonable.
Yup, people will believe whatever they would want to believe or whatever they have happened to believe. This is a kinda weird belief that undermines every other belief and itself as well. I think Nietzsche hinted at this in Beyond Good and Evil (I looked it up - I meant 6th paragraph in Chapter One) I kinda like the sense of freedom and openness that it induces in me and how I can use it as an instrument for what I want, but it also feels kinda weird to be able to discard so many beliefs so easily, when there might be some beliefs that I would probably like to get highly involved with.
@@matbmp Yeah the idea of not knowing your fate and embracing it is compelling to me. Might not be to someone else, but this difference probably has little to do with Truth. At some point in philosophy(epistemology), you come back to square one, but nothing prevents you from exploring more if that is your interest. It might not help you progress towards Truth, but Truth might not be a realistic goal. The idea of living your life in a way that you would want to relive it eternally is pretty nice too.
Ya know i was probably supposed to feel inspired to change my ways and what not but really i didn't know any of this and just felt validation from it, probably information i was bouncing around but if this is correct im definitely on the right path. Idk thanks i guess lol
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I have lived 73 years to have learned the mistakes of the first 72.
It's a humbling path.
Any advice for young people?
There is no better time to start making amends than now.
And next year it will be 73
58 same here it's good we have this at our fingertips one bonus of the illness of the intermess
Evola is to be read as a philosopher-poet, evoking images of myths and the characters of their heroes, plots often fictional but perhaps for that very reason often psychologically effective for those who suffer greatly from the state of the contemporary world and cling to its change.
not different from nietzsche. one could say his project is even more from a poetic aesthetic exploration
Yes
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Filosofo-poeta che romanza? Credo che tu non ne sappia molto di Evola.
Credo che tu di Evola non abbia capito nulla.
For me, what distinguishes Evola from Nietzsche is how the Uberman comes Iin to existance. For Nietzsche, the Uberman wills himself into existance, but for Evola, the Uberman is the result of a society and a culture that nurtures through trials, tribulations, and glorious combat, a man who'll ultimately persevere in building a place to rest from those antagonistic forces. The Uberman is Evola's brick in a civilizational structure where society and culture are the mortar.
What also distinguishes them is that Evola was clearly a fascist, racist and misogynist. From Wikipedia: Writings by Evola contain misogyny, racism, and antisemitism. Evola advocated for Fascist Italy's racial laws and eventually became Italy's leading "racial philosopher".
@@moiome perhaps you should read Revolt against the modern world or Ride the Tiger for yourself, and not rely on the trash Wikipedia allows commies to write about people they do not like.
@@moiome tell someone who gives a shit
@@moiomeYour tiny mind was triggered. The modern Left has rendered all those "isms" and "ists" descriptors totally useless through overuse.
@@brandonmusick77 We can’t all be as open-minded as you, I guess, and forgive the mass murder of millions of innocent Jews, Slavs and others.
this dude bringing up evola is crazy. evola reaching mainstream would be insane
That's my plan. No one else talks about him
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Well i mean if you don't count the NRx scene and academic agent.
He's a legend for it
@iamKristianBell weirdly I think many people do, I just think lots of content creators just rip him off and tout his ideas as their own. I've seen it atleast a couple of times.
It will be impossible to popularize Julius at the moment. A "superfacist" is doomed to be misunderstood in this social climate, dominated by all the forces he stood against.
His emphasis on self-transcendence and living by an internal law challenges us to rethink our paths to personal development and leadership. 🔑
Exactly like Nietzsche then...
@@ErnestSamuels-u4q No. Because Nietzsche rejects the concept of transcendence, while his ideas are transcendental in a way, which Evola exposes and take as a base for his own ideas, in overcoming it’s contraditions ( from evola’s own perspective ) and setting the internal « more than the world » conviction as a base for it not to fall into nihilism.
The image commonly associated with the Übermensch is not quite the same as what Nietzsche wrote about the concept in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
- The Übermensch is not a specific image for people to model themselves after, but a representation of the process of self-overcoming, or Transcendence as Evola would describe it. The description of the Übermensch was intentionally ambiguous, because it was not meant as a set of commandments about what one should or shouldn't be. It is a universal concept to describe a process which is inherently personal, and will seem empty when only considered at this level. The actual "end" to the process of self-overcoming is different for every man, requiring him to understand his true nature and channel his instincts towards the higher aim which he creates out of himself. The significant difference between this and Evola's concept is that Evola emphasizes tradition and mysticism as means of reaching one's true essence while Nietzsche is focused on individuality and the physical world.
- Nietzsche admired the martial-aristocratic ethos, due to both personal affinity and the understanding that it was a necessary cure for the weakness and mediocrity of modernity. The warrior virtues- will to power, courage, discipline, and physical vitality - are necessary for a strong and energetic civilization, the foundation upon which a higher culture (which was always the "end" for Nietzsche) can flourish. However, the idea that a man of a peaceful and contemplative disposition should transform himself into an aggressive warlord, if that is not his nature, is not supported by his philosophy. "Thou shalt become what thou art."
- People make the mistake, due to a misreading of On the Genealogy of Morality, of assuming that his description of ancient barbarian races who raped and pillaged for fun was intended as an example for modern men to follow. He understood the violence and cruelty at the root of culture, but never suggested that modern men cast off millennia of civilization and emulate the behavior of bronze age barbarians. What he opposed was the promotion of pacifism, pity, and selflessness as a universal doctrine.
- I would recommend anyone who sees Nietzsche's ideal as cruel and negative to read the chapter on The Bestowing Virtue from Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Here, the highest virtue, described as a healthy selfishness, is the possession of an overabundance of life which makes everything one touches richer and more meaningful as a result. It is contrasted with a sickly selfishness which only knows how to take. The idea of higher men bestowing value upon life through their inner riches is present throughout Nietzsche's philosophy, from his early concept of the Genius, to the aforementioned chapter of Zarathustra, to his later concept of the Dionysian man.
From my knowledge of Evola, his main criticism of Nietzsche's philosophy is the fact that his ideals, as similar as they may have been to his own, were not grounded in any notion of metaphysical truth. For Evola, what is good is all that brings one closer to the higher world of Being. For Nietzsche, the only thing good in a universal sense is power. The problem Evola saw in Nietzsche is that there is no fundamental reason why the will to power of a greater man should be favored over the will to power of the resentful masses. I can think of several counterarguments from the Nietzschean perspective (i.e. weak, resentful men inherently impoverish life), but Evola's position was that a metaphysically-grounded doctrine of Transcendence was necessary to avoid spiraling into nihilistic relativism.
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Wouldn’t Christianity qualify as a “metaphysically-grounded doctrine of Transcendence”?
What is the difference between Evola's belief that virtue be grounded in metaphysics and Christian belief that purpose be derived from God? Isn't Evola's belief that there is no fundamental reason for pursuing power without metaphysical grounding the same as a Christian believing objective morality doesn't exist if there is no God?
This is what Christianity is currently struggling with. Rather than allowing humans to decide their own highest individual law, it prescribes one. The shoe fits many, but cramps others.
Philosophy is about compatibility more than anything else. One should find whatever literature he may need to help him pursue his highest goals. Religions often confuse utilitarianism as universal truth because it works for many, but not all.
Nietzsche was simply living out what it meant to be his best self. It doesn’t mean we all need to believe in his concepts. Taking his philosophy literally means following it, but truly understanding means throwing it out and making your own. It’s an inspiration nonetheless.
How does a religion struggle with that which makes it a religion lol. It wouldn't be a religion without God prescribing his law. You confuse religion with philosophy.
@@Thomas-xd4cxhe could have just as easily said “modern religion”
@@Thomas-xd4cx The search for truth and way of life is the purpose of both religion and philosophy. The extent to which it serves a culture is how it can be measured. Christianity itself is failing in the West because it is a shitty life rejecting philosophy.
@@Jsinebdjsmdbej yeah, quite a significant difference. And to make it even more apt, it’s about the application of it in modern man, not in that which the teachings prescribe.
@@Thomas-xd4cx no, I’m actually siding with him, I’m actually saying that his original critique has nothing to do with whether or not Christianity is a religion, like he could have just as easily said that that is what is wrong with modern religion.
Law is super important, the difference between modern and ancient religion, is ancient religions respected true spirituality for the complete and utter danger that it truly is, complete openness, the destruction of law. And therefore it was seen as a companion to law, something that was safe to indulge in connection with a separate (in this case, not in general) earthly rule of law (commandments). Modern spirituality, best summarized by “Christianity” believes in the notion that spirituality is how one can come into connection with earthly temporal commandments of practicality which it calls divine law, but it is entirely the opposite. True spirituality is to connect with the divine nihilism which sits at the center of all things, and which gives birth to meaning. It is as potentially destructive as it is connected to order. It isn’t one or the other. It inevitably leads to order, as it is the source of all things, but it is actually the destruction of order and law, not where we find it written out, like in the stone tablets.
I am blown away by this video. What a perfect summary of a topic so paramount.
I'm glad that people are finally recognizing the psychological significance of the teachings of Julius Evola
@@heartsfear9216Germany is so soft
@@heartsfear9216 because femininity reigns over the modern times. Evolas teaching is about the heightened man
@@daddyfuse50Now, we all know what a few of the political consequences of that ideal would look like. Not said in a negative or necessarily positive way, btw.
Not me though
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This entire argument feels like semantics. Obviously the Ubermench is not literally Napoleon or Julius Caesar.
Obviously the Ubermench can be things other than aggressive ambitious warlords. Nietzsche himself was a writer. Cmon man.
The best lesson I've learned from Nietsche : Never allow your intellect to make others feel weak or "less than"
Nietsche works if you can make sure to apply that 1 rule on top of everything else
But that 1 rule excludes some of the philosophy behind it
Don't lean into your archetype - find out which archetype you currently fit - then study every other archetype and apply their lessons
DO NOT PICK JUST 1
Want to incorporate transcendence and some of the other psychological state’s mentioned here into your being - Cultivate a meditation practice.
Yes. Thanks for mentioning.
Probably the most important application for this video
I disagree, I find meditation totally overrated. I tried it for a while and got nothing out of it. I found it extremely boring, nothing at all transcendent about it. Maybe I just "did it wrong."
and act your belief.some meditate about eating healthy and dont eat healthy. carefull not fall into self deception and stagnation. illusion. meditation is great. but some use it to dream ajd wishfull thing and not respect their physical body and physical reality
@@whitemakesright2177or you dont really do inquiry or relax. or relax enough. you maybe stoic about being simple at applting task requied for your goals and sony really need to sit down relax sit sown inquire. i medidtate by tuneling vision into jogging. after 6 hours i dont feel my legs running. meditation can be aplyed during movement. its just some state if mind. eome are stressed. meditate life while acting life
you find it boring? and why do you think focusing on your breath supposed to be a very stimulating thing to begin with? you did'nt do it wrong, you just never did it.
00:02 Julius Evola's philosophy for higher men
02:34 Evola's philosophy focuses on the concept of the Transcendent and its significance for higher types of humans.
05:14 Manifesting your strongest archetype of who you are
07:49 Embracing internal law and self-discipline for higher evolution
10:14 Transcend the pursuit of pleasure and embrace radical acceptance of life
12:44 Evola's philosophy focuses on transcending pain and pleasure for a higher ideal
15:11 Absolute inner Freedom is achieved through self-overcoming and conquering the lower nature.
17:31 Evola's philosophy focuses on taming inner dragons for ultimate freedom.
19:40 Superiority to one's individuality is the mark of a great leader
21:50 Evola's traditionalism focuses on inner order to manifest Divine kingship.
Julius Evola's philosophy for higher men
- Julius Evola's philosophy focuses on the concept of the Ubermensch as the ideal for humanity, representing an aspiration beyond pettiness and self-gratification.
- Evola's philosophy serves as an inspiring symbol of man at his pinnacle, offering an antidote to the weakness and confusion prevalent in modern culture.
Evola's philosophy focuses on the concept of the Transcendent and its significance for higher types of humans.
- Evola's concept of the Transcendent represents the domain of energy and potential within higher types of humans, leading to the activation of the will to power.
- Evola's perspective differs from Nietzsche's as he sees the Ubermensch as a manifestation of the Transcendent, not the ultimate goal of life.
Manifesting your strongest archetype of who you are
- Man must acquire the power to mold his ego into a perfect vehicle for his soul.
- The goal for Evola is to become truly and fully yourself, to be ruled from the superior world.
Embracing internal law and self-discipline for higher evolution
- By aligning with internal law, higher man finds strength in adversity and turns suffering into advantage.
- Evola promotes self-discipline by not succumbing to passions but holding them in check.
Transcend the pursuit of pleasure and embrace radical acceptance of life
- Evola emphasizes sublimating carnal lust into a wild ecstatic feeling of creation and aiming for the pinnacle embodiment of oneself and culture.
- He advocates mastering passions with simplicity, striving for greatness of character and higher courage to stand above all that is inferior.
Evola's philosophy focuses on transcending pain and pleasure for a higher ideal
- Conviction to a higher ideal leads to awakening to one's essence and living in service to mankind.
- Heroism is a key aspect in preserving a superior species of man by claiming the right to exceptional acts and victory over oneself.
Absolute inner Freedom is achieved through self-overcoming and conquering the lower nature.
- Conquering the lower nature through exposure to danger and adversity leads to higher Freedom.
- Sovereignty is achieved by denouncing confusion between discipline and enfeeblement and turning passions to one's advantage.
Evola's philosophy focuses on taming inner dragons for ultimate freedom.
- Evola emphasizes gaining dominance over inner desires for strength and self-mastery.
- Evola's philosophy transcends discipline, aiming to become a magnanimous leader and point the way to freedom.
Superiority to one's individuality is the mark of a great leader
- Virtue comes from rising over oneself and acting from a higher vantage point
- Values attainable only through transcendence and awakening the feeling of transcendence within
Evola's traditionalism focuses on inner order to manifest Divine kingship.
- Traditionalism emphasizes inherent structures in reality and oneself for true state.
- The goal is aligning intellect and will to manifest highest self and state.
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Are you AI or just hugely autistic ?
Evola bro here. This is a fantastic appraisal of the Baron's work in comparison to Nietzsche's. Bravo sir, keep riding the tiger.
Get help
@@orfeotracioyou can’t hide behind your nose forever
@@woofy9977 unlike you cringe yanks Evola bros, I actually read his books and know that he was right on one thing: americans are stupid. that's why he s so successful over there
@@woofy9977 cringe bro
Y'all are so ill equipped for anything even resembling a confrontation, no less assimilation with that of The True Tiger's trajectory.
Ya dont get Nietzsche. [nor have you read him. So no wonder there, ya meme guzzlers] & Evola was a dork.
A fitting master for ye, he. [The latter]
Thanks a lot bro , I’ve been in a slump the last year on and off because of health issues . But this video is helping me reconnect with ideas and feelings I’ve felt possessed by for a long time .
9:37 wow man you're amazing. It's how one views their pain/challenge that determines their effect on them.
I had many of these problems and then I discovered Albert Camus but since I already lived an absurd life, it fit like a glove.
Was about to mention , W camus
Julius Evola deserves a certain level of condemnation for some of his beliefs and how he lived his life, but there are valuable insights within his work as well. I believe the primary reason people are eager to label him as entirely negative and dismiss him completely is his views challenge current societal issues. Disregarding his beliefs, labeling him wholly bad, and condemning anyone who engages with his work promotes self-censorship for those who could genuinely benefit from exploring his philosophy.
8:45 Asceticism*. Which from what I understand is to use ones will power to undergo voluntary stress and resist distractions or temptations in order to train ones self to not only endure or undergo the challenges of life easily, but to also seek or welcome those challenges in order to overcome them and grow as a result. That's one way too look at asceticism.
Looking forward to this. Going to the gym now, then I'll have to watch this. Body and mind. Sun and steel.
I think that the overarching problem with people that praise philosophers and philosphies is that you are all too prone to misunderstanding and gullibility, you look for what fits your current perspective, not challenge it, you will be onto the next one as soon as your perspective drifts... your perception of focus is merely a lens on your confusion, people here praise trascendence, evola himself does, yet you come onto this world and bring it... what it already had? so you are of this world after all, and your self praise of transcendence is but talk... you feed your ego and forge an identity built on thoughts... wow
confirmation bias is rampant in philosophy, I agree, however I still find the pursuit essential , we are all making sense of the world whether we call it philosophy or not, and so I believe your post can serve to sharpen philosophy. If you havent already, you my like Wittgenstein's take based on your comment
Excellent presentation. It reminded me of a quote I love. “Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He that noblest lives and dies, keeps his self made laws.”
For his nuance alliance with Fascist Italy, he's a great complement for Nietzsche and breath of fresh air in the mountains of "Spirit"
Amor Fati my companion.
"Nuance(d) alliance" 😂 lmao you mean the part where he was a literal, commited fascist til the day he died? There was no nuance. He not only "bought" the fascist ideology, he was in large part responsible for shaping it himself.
Dude fled to nazi germany when the fascist regime fell in italy, then went back to italy to build the neofascist movement to rebuild/replace fascism in italy (a tree that is beginning to bear fruit these days..)
Evola was a fascist. This is not merely incidental to his philosophy, it is deeply imbedded within it. It is *central* to it.
@coyoteblue4027 if you can't prove fascism is objectively wrong honestly who cares what your personal belief is about it.
@@coyoteblue4027 yeah, the traditionalist road is a slippery slope for philosophers because sooner or later it turns out the tradition they talk about is the one of the survival of the chaddest
@@frogsdocanfly "survival of the chaddest" is a fun way of saying "intensification of hyper-masculine heirarchal violence."
@@coyoteblue4027You're talking rubbish, Evola was purely a traditionalist and he viewed everything by that perspective, he was critical of fascism seeing in it anti traditional elements, he wrote a book "Fascism viewed by the right"
you think the ubermench is the dominating, aggressive and the arrogant?! - it is an ideal that is never meant to be reached. it has no form but what it becomes from its subject and their ability to sacrifice whatever they are for a better version.
Looking forward to this! I am so glad that you decided to include Evola in your videos.
Haven't read Evola but have been reading N all my life. I do not see anything new here to validly claim a "better" Nietzsche or Superman. All the virtues you mentioned are in his N's books if you've read them enough. N's books are literally a set of predictions and description of the Ubermensch including and especially the ones that seem unrelated to it.
Reminds me of - TRIZ which suggest that the ideal to a solution is to sharpen contradictions to the point where they achieve ideality. Which is in the spirit of Aristotle : seek out abstinence with the mind set of a someone who values the good life. Embrace discomfort not for its own sake but as symptom of growth.
wrote down the 10 principles in the back of my copy of meditations by marcus aurelius. Never heard of julius evola but i have a feeling i could learn a lot from him
you never heard about him because he's basically blacklisted from academics, they fear his ideas...
@@GhostofTradition Yeah like how ideas about the spiritual taxonomy of different races.
@@Antibailiffbacchuscause a Conquering Roman Emperor wouldn’t have had essentialist views of race
"Evola gets talked about by white supremes! REEEEEE!!"
@@GhostofTraditionno one fears him he is a snake and it doesn’t take more than 5 minutes of critical thinking to realize it. Plus his ideas are the backbone of fascism, especially neo fascism
The biggest thing i just discovered are the negative actions.People always think,do,do,do.Understand the sacrifice.Follow your gut.
Have been pondering how formal educated philosophers will comprehend and interpret our existence and being, we just am, their really isn’t a central philosophy we live by, am sure u could place it in one or another roughly in similarity.
Thank you for this video🧏🏿♂️
5 loving means to make someone happy 6 exceptional - overcoming aggression and transforming into loving and Compassion
Equality doesnt mean that we are all equal in ability, as if we are all endowed with the same will to learn, achieve, develop, it is these qualities that produce different and unique individual outcomes.
What is the scalability of Ubermensch? can the world handle having everyone being a "child"? what will happen to communities if everyone's interests, morals, values are different and uniquely tied to the individual? will it not be challenging to create a middle ground and even harder to keep the community not destroy itself because of extreme individualism?
Nietzsche never claimed everybody should or can be the ubermensch . Most people are prey by nature and can not reach it regardless of their efforts . He wanted a place when the men capable of becoming one , can do so and aren’t being dragged down by the herds morals and beliefs
Yes, but as with most every problem the correct answer at one level of analysis is incorrect at another. The axioms for such a life must be truly fractal and apply at each level and all levels of experience simultaneously. The men who aim for such a life but who are incapable of such fundamentalism will confuse their pompous and obstinate attitudes for higher reason and will damn themselves and all around them. The men capable of such a thing do not themselves believe that they are, but one day find that everyone else says they've arrived.
Be. A Master but always serve people..
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It will not happen, not everyone will become an Übermensch.
Nietzsche did not think that everyone could aspire to that level of individuality. He considered most people to be followers by nature, hence the tension between Higher Men and the Herd. This contrast is important because the Herd needs Higher Men to give them values, law, and purpose beyond mere survival, and Higher Men ultimately need the Herd as a sculptor needs a block of stone, as their creative potential will amount to nothing if they cannot make an impact beyond themselves. Throughout his work, Nietzsche does not long for a future in which every person aspires to be a creator of values, but one where Higher Men have the capacity to shape the destiny of mankind. Not everyone is meant to follow the same path, and encouraging a universal middle ground would prevent people from embracing the way of life which is most suitable for them. Breaking down the distinction between leaders and followers leads to a sort of confused formlessness where everyone wants to believe that they are "free" and "self-actualized" while still feeling the need to stay within the acceptable boundaries of the collective; the masses aimlessly follow each other and independent men with the instinct to lead end up unfulfilled.
n.2 is the essence of David Goggins' mindset and message.
11:23. Taoists say that virtue isn’t virtuous if it is concerned with being so. “…Not feeling any satisfaction thereby.” You aren’t doing it to do it, there’s a higher thing that the lower passions obscure from your sight.
I Haven’t read Evola’s book, but if those are his points, I would think that he didn’t read much of Nietzsche’s books. Nietzsche was eventually upset of the overall “Humane” condition of “Humans”. He invented “übermensch“ to break free Man from every identity and identification known and unknown hitherto. To evolve from being human to something totally different. An actual God on earth. Look at it like this: Man evolved from a Monkey, now he has to evolve from Man to Übermensch. So he wasn’t trying to fix the condition, rather fully eliminate the man and his condition by the birth of that “star”. He wasn’t trying to solve a problem, he was trying to end the solutions and the problems by this “Übermensch“.
0:00 - intro
0:31 - Nietzsche's Ubermensch
2:15 - Evola vs Nietzsche
7:33 - 10 principles
20:04 - Transcendence
20:50 - Traditionalism
17:16 "all the passions have been discredited thanks to those who were not strong enough to turn them to their advantage"
Is this why you consider fear to be 'bad', undesirable and something to overcome? Is this why you believe in negative emotions: merely because you were not strong enough to turn the emotion to your advantage.
because you cannot turn fear to your advantage you would rather not feel it at all? Doesn't this just diminish from the economy of life in terms of the energy and resolve at your disposal. Likewise does choosing not to feel an emotion limit our awareness of ourselves.
A channel for neurotics as described by Alfred Adler...
9:51 the weak will always see suffering as evil; the strong will see it as a glorious opportunity. ( i like this alot)
the concept of evil does not exist? only incompetence exists: all was good before it became bad, and this reveals to us what we could and could not endure (eg. our limitations)
15:34 'great danger and fear make him a being of veneration'
3:00 Nietzsche believed his impulses urged him to affirm all of life as desirable (this is what it meant to Nietzsche to become superhuman). He believed this to be some type of accomplishment that would make lesser men appear as apes: from such a perspective the development of the superhuman is part of the evolutionary process (a striving; but inevitable).
You make the argument that Nietzsche may have confused the means as ends: Is your argument that Nietzsche was wrong?
It seems to me as though Nietzsche and Evola were in agreement: Evola talks about the transcendent as though it was a type of intelligence, likewise does Nietzsche regard impulses as a type of intelligence, which would imply that we are getting acted upon by forces that have their own prerogatives.
Both philosophers seek to discover what these prerogatives are: what is the prerogative of an impulse? What is this grand design for which we are made into actors. Evolution, but to what end?
I started listening as I know Evola already. The ramblings confirm that he was paraphrasing the same lunatic.
What a great way to start my day.
Never search for wisdom in a singular location or source. The wisest amongst us, learned from many masters, and yet still learn. For though we call them masters, their wisdom allows them to realize how much they still have to learn.
you're a peasant
In my opinion, what's missing from Evola's book, and what nobody talks about, is how to discover oneself, how to find one's properly traditional essence, and not fall into the modern self-made-man. So, if you have any research proposals, I'm open...
7:02 Didn't nietzche said the same thing ? I think ebola misunderstood nietzche
Yes, Nietzsche did say literally the same. Overman is the purpose, not the standard.
receive ALL THINGS with thankfulness. Train your mind to appreciate every experience. LIFE IS LIFE, THE REST IS ATTITUDE. Beyond "indifference" to privation, hardships, life itself, BE THANKFUL for privation, hardships, life itself, and you will ABSOLUTELY ENJOY ALL THAT IS LIFE.
The rest is attitude 🔥
you cant call that part of you that needs to be overcome the 'little self': remember we are meant to be in veneration of the part that resist us. We are to admire that which resists us otherwise veneration and celebration do not necessarily follow.
I did all this in the face of a bully of a boss and a toxic work environment. I almost lost myself to surfacing the incredible pain, anger, and disgust. But suddenly I found strength in madness that dissipated into calmness.
They shot me down as hard as they could. I've been on leave with pay while they investigate for 2.5 months now.
All I did was tell a story with philosophy and norse mythology and a lot of trickery in meaning words in a slack channel for socializing 😈.
I love it even more by overruling the stoics rules 😊 Courage is a very good feeling. 😊
if I've read nietzsche, can I read Evola and understand it or will it be much more difficult?
Start with ride the Tiger
Nietzsche wrote "If humanity lacks a goal, then does it not lack humanity itself?". His goal, of course, was the overman, but that's sufficient to "redeem" life, as it creates something beautiful and life-affirming. He also wrote "You should become who you are" and "If you have your own virtue, you have it in common with no one". Nietzsche in no way encouraged everyone to be the same. In Zarathustra he even encourages his disciples to go their own way, writing something like "Only when you have denied me shall I return to you".
All the laws are Nietzschean. All the quotes you give are Nietzsches words, for Evola is just paraphrasing Nietzsche. "What matters my happiness?" is written in Zarathustra. Also "As much as you give your friend I will give even to my enemy, and would not be poorer for it." Great natures are "overflowing", they crave to give like those in poverty crave to receive. Nietzsche only lacks magnanimity because "great warriors don't want to be spared" and because refusing to let weakness die creates a kind of reverse eugenics.
I just feel like he ELABORATED on Nietzsche. He doesn’t seem to have a different take. It never seemed like Nietzsche was speaking of power in a general basic sense. I think he was legitimately just saying what Evola is saying. Evola just explained his idea
Personal responsibility IS the “Freedom”. 🤯🤯
I'm the 1000th like. Nice video man! just found the channel, and I am liking the experience you offer.
So many different philosophies and thoughts but at the end of the day you need to find your own that works perfectly for you
I like evola, but he and niether his philosophy is "better than Nietzsche".
16:06 'only when you need strength will you become strong' (I disagree)
Only people who believe they are strong fail to become strong: they remain weak because they do not see the need to improve.
Conversely: people who believe they are weak are always becoming stronger.
In summa the disagreement is this: beliefs make you strong, not circumstances. But circumstances can give rise to beliefs, and if the circumstance is a common experience for many, it can give rise to culture, a shared system of belief designed for the greatest number.
Can you make a video about this becoming who you truly are thing please؟
8:39 regarding fearless strength: I disagree that we should call this type of strength fearless. Fear is unpleasant but not something we cannot turn to our advantage; the person who desires things to resist him would welcome fear.
perhaps you should call it the fearful strength. fear offers us that resistance we need to affirm our own self worth to ourselves. It is desirable.
10:08 , Just curious where does Nietzsche ever say we should renounce our passions? This seems almost the opposite of everything he's ever said. Likewise, Nietzsche affirms that all human behavior, whether we call it passionate or rational, is ultimately a channel of the will to power. There isn't a self that exists separate from the passions to renounce or use passions there just is the will.
Interesting video.
I've never read Evola, but based on what I've learned of his ideas here, he really doesn't seem to add anything new to Nietzsche's project.
18:43 "to point the way of those who, free from all bonds, obeying only their own law, are unbending in obedience to it and above all human weakness"
I disagree that the strongest among us obey only their own law: I believe it is more appropriate to say that the strongest among us are the most immoral. They disregard morality in favour of a sentiment: consider the fact that we never consent to a sentiment. Does this not mean that the strongest among us take direction from a sentiment and not their own law?
What precedes the ego's development? How did we learn to learn? It was intuitive: the sentiment preceded everything.
Julius Evola as arrested for promoting fascism. He said “I am not a fascist. I am a super fascist!” That’s all I need to know about Evola.
And this comment is all we need to know about you. So fuck off.
I see you've fallen for the trap of equating fascism with despotism as a concept.
Who cares?
If he said "super Communist" would you feel the same?
And?
What are all these artistic images? Names and artists please!
I think the essence of a human is peaceful the aggression is from alien. the higher human overcomes aggression envy jealousy etc.
Great video. But should we pronounce his name Evola, or Evola?
I'm still not sure so I use both
I resonate with this emperor mentality. was born into it. In the wilds of Africa. Uncivilised Lion. I'm a Tarzan. But when I came upon society they convinced me for a hot minute I was a sheep just like them. I tried to do sheeple things like go bababa and eat grass old day and get eaten, but i just couldn't not matter how hard I tried. I cant be what i am not. Thanks for introducing me to this man. i am going to read his book. Subscribed. Btw i am a real sufi muslim(rare nowadays). And i know with full conviction that Islam makes a man the most masculine, in his true emperor soul status. Its the culmination, and apex of all knowledge if you put the effort of study into its esoteric side. If you truly absolutely submit to the infinite light, it will transform and transmute you to the highest plains of consciences from a lesser loathful creature. We call it Alchemy- the science of spirituality to turn lead(lesser state,useless) to gold( higher state,usefull). In the alchemic process we have to burn in devasting blaze and in the ruins of the ashes we are reborn like a majestic immortal phoenix into our highest positions in this universes and beyond-OUR BIRTHRIGHT. Your heights are determined by the amount of pain. Thats why i pray to God everyday to let the flame roar like the lion i am and consume me but also to take care of me and make me a man strong and capable enough to handle the heat that turns lead in the furnace of the fire of life to dazzling, pure GOLD. Death of the mortal body is liberation of this soul. so we better cultivate high level soul force before death. Through the liberation of the soul in death, you character gets released into eternity. so when i am liberated, my light will be infinitely magnified into the loving embrace of my beloved eternity- eternal paradise. But if you refuse the work and drain your soul to darkness in death by following Ibleese The Eternally Accursed(demons) you will be in infinite darkness for eternity-thats hell. The reason i really resonate with this video is because its very similar in our view of masculinity and the highest ideals of excellence. Islam taught me that I am made in the image of the most exalted and I am a khalifa-caliph(ruler,authority over this planet-Birth right for all man) and he breathed his Created spirit into me. Imagine fully believing and being convicted by this? what would it do to a mans mind? btw islam also speaks supremely of women, they are also made in his image and spirit.
Signed with love.❤🔥
You are a neurotic, not a lion. And these channels are for lonely men who want to overcome their insignificance, which capitalism, which turns them into interchangeable products, overcomes with a little mysticism and elitist chatter. It remains clumsy for people who understand. Check dialectical materialism or or remain an immature mind.
6:20-6:32: brilliant.
And what is the meaning to apply the power you find in Your life or Transendent😊😅
I do not agree with Julius Evola, and would take a similar stance that Russell takes towards Mosley. I highly recommend anyone looking to develop their rational faculty to read Immanuel Kant's "What is Enlightenment?" It is a short article that highlights the importance of thinking for oneself, and the importance of genuine conversation and freedom in the public sphere in order to benefit ourselves and our society. Kant, of course, universalizes the individual too broadly and ignores the fact that we all emerge from distinct material and historical contexts, but "What is Enlightenment" is a fantastic introduction to anyone looking to see the importance of rational discussion and freedom in our lives.
But you're a nobody who knows nothing of Philosophy.
As a Nietzschean i disagree with Evolas critique of the Übermensch and the will to power.
Evola says: Power in itself is formless. It has no sense on the basis of a given 'being' an internal direction and essential unity. When that is wanting, everything slides back into chaos. "Here we have the greatest strength, but it does not know what it is gor. The means exist but they have no end."
I Argue that the will to power is the essential driving force of life it is not essential that we consciously seek power, but subconsciously we do actions that are driving us to increase our power. The whole act of having an internal direction is an act of the will to power also there is no end to it since the means of life is the constant increase of power.
I have always wondered what Evola thought on Dostoevsky
you mention that their are good emotions and bad emotions: I do not understand the reason for the distinction. people who are prejudice towards types emotion I call idiots of human experience (they dont feel: they are timmid).
it actually makes no sense to say that an emotion that has developed for reasons of evolutionary necessity is 'bad' or undesirable because they are necessary; it is incomprehensible. These people protest against what 'is' (how they feel) in favour of how things 'ought' be, they protest too much and in the process become pathological, they believe they 'ought' be happy.
Please more Evola's philosophy. I want to learn about him more but the videos I found were pretty darn confusing and incomprehensible. Love your videos.
Amazing lmao. It happens in the present moment. That energy is accessible and like a brick layer. You can lay ubermensch bricks or maintenance bricks. Every truth is but a half truth. So at some point the law of diminishing returns transitions me from evolution (moving higher) to ego building (moving across). Which i think helps the evolution in the long run.
Oh god, this guy quotes himself, from his own book. That's a very special type of person.
I’d like to know your take on the quote “burn the boats”.
Just a side note for people who think this guy is all fun and games... Evola advocated for Fascist Italy's racial laws, and eventually became Italy's leading "racial philosopher". In May 1951, Evola was arrested in Italy and charged with promoting the revival of the Fascist Party, and of glorifying Fascism. Evola declared that he was not a Fascist but was instead "superfascista" ( lit. 'superfascist').He is still liked by many ultranationalist far-right and fascist organizations and groups in Europe today.
Yes Sir, indeed.
I'm a historian by education, and can confirm that all this is true. And more. Plus, some of my ancestors were actual fascists, in the WW2 era, even actual Italian ones. Which - didn't end well. For anybody.
Plus, I've also personaly lived through that. For real. 🤐
In my country of Ex-Yugoslavia - I'm in Croatia, but that's the same thing - there was not only very such kind of a real deal major war, again, after WW2, for a second time, in my youth in the 1990s, but there were also intellectual justifications, or even - intellectual (and very intelligent, elaborate, and seductive, let me tell you, btw 😎) precursors to all that. Especially in Serbia (but we all were reading all that here),
I can point out to one man, a painter, journalist and a writer, by the name - Dragoš Kalajić, who was propagating this very ideology here, he called it "one vorldview", 'Jedan pogled na svet', a 'Weltanschauung'. And not only that but he actualy studied in Rome, on the Accademia di belle arti, in the 1960s, and was of course in the circle of J. Evola himself.
All that was, I will say that again - very seductive ideology, but, fortunately for me,
I never truly lost my traditional
- Faith. And came back to Christianity, fully, discarding all ideologies of that bloody 20th century. Because I consider all of those 'dividing lines' between them, all those 'ideological packages' - prescribed today, or, sadly, for such a long time by now, to be - all wrong - dividing lines and false choices. 🧠
Made deliberately as such, in the final instance, or first - by the Devil of course. 😎 Just to confuse people and lead them astray, by that, always the same, simplest playbook ever - 'Divide et Impera'. 🧠😊
@@ZecZli this was very interesting to read. I am shocked when people talk about people like Evola as if he's all self help. He was an evil person with an evil ideology. Yes there is 0 disclaimer on a video spreading his ideology and calling it superior and asking stupid questions like "why isn't he more popular??" I am so suspicious of this person claiming he doesn't know who Evola is and what he believed and how his philosophy tied into politics... either he is so ignorant he shouldn't make a video or he willfully ignored it which makes him supportive of it. Or he knows it and thinking its such a cool and as you said "seductive" way of thinking.
My personal comment to you, since you seem like an educated man who knows that ideologies divide people... my friends Christianity and religion also divides people as they are also ideologies. They have been the cause of division since forever. Religion says I am right and everyone else is wrong. Consider this fact too. Think about why every fascist state was extremely Conservative Christian.
Based
@@altaydogahan342 Christianity founded the morals of Western civilization. Society relies upon it. Christianity is more of a belief system than an ideology. What's your ideology that you would use to replace it?
Evola was an esoteric extremist. A true philosopher king.
He is someone to be studied, honored, and emulated.
he is a braindead sexist. thats why your stupid ass like him
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Why do you people always flock to loser movements? There’s a reason his ideology died out because it’s inferior.
How does he expect for man to become what he "really is" when man never can know what he truly is? Sure you can throw some words out there that may or may not sound good to a large perctage of people, but that doesn't conquer such a - dare I say impossible goal.
Isn't that Nietzsche covers it in 3 transformations of camel, lion & child. End goal is to be childlike, free, enlighten and authentic.
Nietzschah & Zaratooshtra!
I accepted value more than "equality"
So is Daoism ☯️ a legit philosophy?
17:00 discipline is overrated and misunderstood as a good thing: conversely it takes no effort to be determined
with discipline one must find resolve: those who are determined have already found their resolve
determination is better than discipline: with one you need to drag your feet and force yourself to act, with the other action becomes reflex
how is discipline achieved: is discipline the freedom to act to your own disadvantage. To successfully discipline ourselves do we not also need to reduce the economy of emotions so that our impulses are weakenned? If we do not first weaken the impulses would they not interfere with the discipline?
Thank you
- A Polish Nietzschean!
the ubermensch doesn't need to abide by any principle, he acts upon will. That's the whole point...
Never forget the power of being alone
4:58 power is a scalar, not a vector
Evola is confused - Nietzsche
All of this strikes me as adolescent power fantasies. If you have to be constantly saying to yourself “I am strong! I am The Ubermensch! I am superior to all these lesser beings that surround me!“ I would really have to conclude that you are profoundly and pathologically insecure
agree, too have come to find the will to power to really mean the the fear to power, If Im not afraid, I have no need to announce how strong I am etc
Now take an even deeper step: Oswald Spengler
Great work! Evola reminds me of works from Epicurus and his teachings of moderation. I am definitely gonna look for Evola's works.
Evola advocated for Fascist Italy's racial laws,[10] and eventually became Italy's leading "racial philosopher".[11] Autobiographical remarks by Evola allude to his having worked for the Sicherheitsdienst, or SD, the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party.[12][13] He fled to Nazi Germany in 1943 when the Italian Fascist regime fell, but returned to Rome under the puppet Salò government to organize a radical-right group.[14][15][16][17] In 1945 in Vienna, a Soviet shell fragment paralysed him from the waist down.[18] On trial in 1951, Evola denied being a fascist and instead referred to himself as "superfascista" (lit. 'superfascist'). Concerning this statement, historian Elisabetta Cassina Wolff wrote that "It is unclear whether this meant that Evola was placing himself above or beyond Fascism".[19]
And?
A broken clock is right twice a day. he was also very influential in his writings on mysticism, not just stoic philosophy, or politics. Bad people can have good ideas sometimes.
Cool. Anyway
Can't evolva without evola.
It’s just a style, a preference, a personality. Philosophies are simply perspectives, none truer than the other.
You will believe what you will, your biology and environment will make sure of that. Nietzsche believed what he believed for the same reasons.
Sidenote: reason relies on presuppositions, which are unreasonable. The foundation of truth is unreasonable.
Yup, people will believe whatever they would want to believe or whatever they have happened to believe. This is a kinda weird belief that undermines every other belief and itself as well. I think Nietzsche hinted at this in Beyond Good and Evil (I looked it up - I meant 6th paragraph in Chapter One)
I kinda like the sense of freedom and openness that it induces in me and how I can use it as an instrument for what I want, but it also feels kinda weird to be able to discard so many beliefs so easily, when there might be some beliefs that I would probably like to get highly involved with.
@@matbmp Yeah the idea of not knowing your fate and embracing it is compelling to me. Might not be to someone else, but this difference probably has little to do with Truth.
At some point in philosophy(epistemology), you come back to square one, but nothing prevents you from exploring more if that is your interest. It might not help you progress towards Truth, but Truth might not be a realistic goal.
The idea of living your life in a way that you would want to relive it eternally is pretty nice too.
Ya know i was probably supposed to feel inspired to change my ways and what not but really i didn't know any of this and just felt validation from it, probably information i was bouncing around but if this is correct im definitely on the right path. Idk thanks i guess lol
Evola, the philosopher for dudes who forget about that “big thing that happened” in the 40s