I love how he´s always picking the water cup up but then becomes engaged in what he´s saying and ends up putting it down without having had a drink

@nickhac

5 жыл бұрын

That is awesome. Well observed my good sir!

@spencerstephens7594

5 жыл бұрын

I noticed this again and again and had to pause to come check the comments for someone else who did!

@whitenoiseihearu4018

5 жыл бұрын

Einstein would accidentally forget to eat and tie his shoes. It happens.

@noahtrim2938

4 жыл бұрын

Looks like he forgot his shirt too.

@whitenoiseihearu4018

4 жыл бұрын

Noah Trim..its a look alot of self employed use. Casual tee under a jacket, its a thing. Like no socks in dress shoes.

"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity"

@jdd8687

7 жыл бұрын

Nietzsche was commenting on Hegel, Kant, Fichte. The PoMos and Derrida in particular wrote very much in the Hegelian style, so that could be why N had them pegged before they were even born.

@nts4906

6 жыл бұрын

Nietzsche also stated that the philosopher fears being understood more than being misunderstood.

@michaelgroenewald7

6 жыл бұрын

makes me think of the majority of academic readings.

@SonofTiamat

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like he was describing hipsters

@ingold1470

6 жыл бұрын

Some 1910 translation of Twlight of the Idols has another version "What? Art though looking for something? Thou wouldst fain multiply thyself tenfold, a hundred-fold? Thou seekest followers? Seek Ciphers!"... We are never understood-hence our authority".

Ran into Dr. Jordan Peterson on the streets of Toronto: "How you doin today, Doc?" "Well, it depends on what you mean by 'doing.' And it depends on what you mean by 'today.'" "Now, I've been thinking about this a lot, and you can tell me what you think about it." "It doesn't seem to me to be self-evident that when we're conceptualizing the nomenclature of a word like 'today' within the substrate of a dominance hierarchy, let's say, that we're not actually utilizing an a priori interpretive framework." "That seems to me like a good way of thinking about it." "Like, you might say it's proper, by the same token -- roughly speaking -- to order your (How would you put it?) your ... your manifestation of thinking in such a manner that 'today,' or 'doing,' for that matter, is predicated upon an evolutionary understanding of the archetypal representation of these utterances as they'e been portrayed in great literature." "And why the hell not?!" "It isn't obvious to me, eh, as far as I'm concerned, that this kind of ideology isn't part and parcel of a threat to the neo-marxist identity-politics approach to Jungian chaos and order. I see this as substantiated in the humanities departments of the university as it functions today. Yunno ... as the post-modernist types would have it." "So, so ... You have to give the devil his due, you know, because the devil is in the details." "It's no joke, man. Not bloody damn well. Not at all. AT ALLLLLL." "And fair enough, you know. More power to ya as far as I'm concerned." "And how are YOU doing today?"

@michaelnewman6936

4 жыл бұрын

How long did this take? Be honest

@davidwatkins204

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah man, gotcha. Wish more of these comentators could be this lucid.

@a.r.c8021

4 жыл бұрын

Best comment

@marshmelows

4 жыл бұрын

This is pure gold. As soon as i read "And whybthe hell not?" I understood where this was going

@TheQuiQuestion

4 жыл бұрын

Anyone else read this in his voice?

Peterson's comment at 36:01 is excellent: "Nietzsche's book is not a book at all - it's a series of bombs.... And each sentence is a bomb. Each sentence blows things up that people don't know exist".

@goobermcgilicuty3754

3 жыл бұрын

Nietzsche was purely human, compelled by suffering an could not find a way towards any satisfaction in life, with the exception criticism. I got to tell ya I would much much rather be at peace than a constant handwringer ! !

@zlatanibrahimovic8329

3 жыл бұрын

Goober Mcgilicuty it is easy to mock the dead.

@praz7

3 жыл бұрын

@@goobermcgilicuty3754 yeah it's easy to live in a delusion than understand reality and still push ahead because most people give up on everything once they understand reality.

@dogdriver70

3 жыл бұрын

The first chapter destroys you.

@dogdriver70

3 жыл бұрын

@James Cain you begin to understand...

For everyone dissatisfied about the sound quality: 1. Copy the URL for this video 2. Open VLC (download it for free online if you don't have it) 3. Press "CTRL + N" for 'Open Network Stream' 4. Paste URL to stream the video. 5. Adjust volume accordingly. 'Like' this comment so it gets more recognition! xoxo

@jessicagodin4678

7 жыл бұрын

thanks man, had VLC for years and never knew about this

@dbdavis3958

7 жыл бұрын

thanks for this information!

@NotthatRossKemp

7 жыл бұрын

Dude, that is fricken genius!

@xxXTychoXxx

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch, This is a great tip.

@dwight4k

7 жыл бұрын

VLC is the best player for everything.

Im never been so fond of a man that lived in my lifetime. ..thank you professor

@AnnaLVajda

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't he lovely I don't know how people can't like him. I don't always agree with everything he says and he runs on a bit sometimes but even then I don't get annoyed by him I think he is just hyper intelligent and constantly formulating concepts and ideas. I don't even think it would bother him if I did disagree with him he would probably consider my reasoning respectfully and not just argue his point obsessively. Very charming individual I hope we honour him somehow soon with a literature award or something I also hope he will write another book but not a self help type book I would prefer a more memoir style presentation which can still be helpful without being like a textbook. I like when he shares personal experiences not just analyzes and dissects other peoples work although he is very apt at that also.

@mpm1125

3 жыл бұрын

He is a great blessing to our culture and thankfully is about to release a new book. I can’t think of anyone who I respect as an intellectual right now as Dr. Peterson. Well said!

@williammcmillion1796

3 жыл бұрын

me as well brother.

@TheMrGarciahernan

2 жыл бұрын

Same bro . This guy and Elon

@mrmonk7197

2 жыл бұрын

Going to see him live next Wednesday. I'm so glad our time here overlapped.

“The more poetic the author happens to be, the more the case that his or her writings contain within it the seeds of future ideas.”

when the teacher says "justify your answer"

@DM-wu5hn

3 жыл бұрын

The teacher said nobody has to, yesterday.

I’m 3 pages into this book writing this comment. I need a 10 minute break to digest each paragraph to possibly not comprehend anything properly or fully. I didn’t know something like this existed. Quite frankly I’ve never been terrified and exciting trying to digest something. How fantastic.

@manwithmountain

2 жыл бұрын

For me it was the 'On the Geneology of Morals'. It was a slog getting through it but wow.

@aldrickpeter

11 ай бұрын

i bought that book and i try reading it again and again, but i can't understand anything

@alexwithletters3215

7 ай бұрын

Wouldn't a better approach be to chew on it several times , then swallow and then digest it. Meaning, read it "leisurely" then read it again , then read it again and then attempt digestion.

@jakedubs

6 ай бұрын

when NPC's read philosophy

@anilthapa5631

6 ай бұрын

​@@aldrickpeterme too,but I will never give up 😊.

Prof. Peterson, it would be awesome if you could share some advice on reading and how to comprehend and retain what is written.

@samchop7494

7 жыл бұрын

At 1:20, he talks about sewing the seeds of future ideas. To attempt to digest and hold everything is, to the best of my understanding imprudent. Though it would be outlandishly cool to be able to Nietschze at any given moment, I think this might be a hard work and dedication deal.

@SilvaOnTube

7 жыл бұрын

A good reason why experience in much reading both of Nietzsche's own work (very easy to do), and of the many bad and good works about him (of which Kaufmann's are clearly the best - and again, also a good bit of reading) are essential. Forty-five minutes is hardly any more than a very, very brief introduction (as I'm sure Professor Peterson would agree).

@SilvaOnTube

7 жыл бұрын

May I recommend a great book on that by the great editors of the Great Books series, Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren? It is the best.

@BigRed4231

7 жыл бұрын

Take a literature course at university, where you read novels or philosophical works. Go to the lecture and feel ashamed of how much you overlooked. Repeat this as many times as needed, when you do not feel ashamed anymore you can consider yourself a competent reader. It´s amazing how much we overlook. I always look for the things - probably cause I have a inferiority issue - people are not saying, not doing or not being aware of, so I can get feel for who they are, and if I should take them serious or not.

@RahellOmer

7 жыл бұрын

+Sam Chop true, thanks!

Dr. Peterson, I have followed your work for over a dozen years and have been deeply inspired by it from start to finish, but this video is hands-down the most mind-blowing, astonishing work I have ever seen you do. Your careful, close reading of this paragraph is nothing short of brilliant.

*---------* *Here's the section he's referring to if you would like to read it before you watch the video* *-----------* It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of-namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious auto-biography; and moreover that themoral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown. Indeed, to understand how the abstruse-st metaphysical assertions of a philosopher have been arrived at, it is always well (and wise) to first ask oneself: ‘What morality do they (or does he) aim at?’ Accordingly, I do not believe that an ‘impulse to knowledge’ is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument. But whoever considers the fundamental impulses of man with a view to determining how far they may have here acted as INSPIRING GENII (or as demons and cobolds), will find that they have all practiced philosophy at one time or another, and that each one of them would have been only too glad to look upon itself as the ultimate end of existence and the legitimate LORD over all the other impulses. For every impulse is imperious, and as SUCH, attempts to philosophize. To be sure, in the case of scholars, in the case of really scientific men, it may be otherwise-‘better,’ if you will; there there may really be such a thing as an ‘impulse to knowledge,’ some kind of small, independent clock-work, which, when well wound up, works away industriously to that end, WITHOUT the rest of the scholarly impulses taking any material part therein. The actual ‘interests’ of the scholar, therefore, are generally in quite another direction-in the family, perhaps, or in money-making, or in politics; it is, in fact, almost indifferent at what point of research his little machine is placed, and whether the hopeful young worker becomes a good philologist, a mushroom specialist, or a chemist; he is not CHARACTERIZED by becoming this or that. In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to WHO HE IS,-that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses ofhis nature stand to each other.

@tehnebb

6 жыл бұрын

Indolent Sloth thank you!

@ccdavis94303

6 жыл бұрын

Please add my thanks. But you contradict your title by your efforts. Blush from the earned praise.

@FloydMaxwell

6 жыл бұрын

This "paragraph" is incredibly poorly worded. In part because it is no doubt a translation from German. Trying to process and understand it is as useful as trying to understand String Theory. Nietzsche clearly did not have enough time to make the paragraph smaller. Pity.

@bertwesler1181

5 жыл бұрын

Every fool who has reduced himself to a "Clockwork" has gone mad. Usually, they drink themselves to death. The knowledge that one is an autonomous being with the capability to "Act" is the road to wisdom and health of mind body and soul.

@RohanKumar-vx5sb

5 жыл бұрын

thanks!

Please more Nietzsche videos. You're analysis is remarkable!

@yashodakrishna2351

5 жыл бұрын

@Doctor Drywell can you please be more civil in saying what you are saying? It reduces the impact of what you're trying to deliver. You seem extremely triggered which makes me take your criticism less seriously

@yashodakrishna2351

5 жыл бұрын

@Doctor Drywell Also I'd like to point out that in this video he doesn't really talk about the phrase God is dead. The contradiction you're referring has not alot to do with this video.. so really it'd be appropriate if u could point out the contradictions from this video

@SantinoDeluxe

5 жыл бұрын

@Doctor Drywell i saw what youre talking about and found it hard to verbalize, but i agree. also, i personally didnt like how he assumed hitler wanted to die in a hole, while claiming the thought came from some unknown scholar, paused and agreed with himself... then proceeded to insinuate that youre hitler too and you wanna die in a hole, cuz he human... (meanwhile the other guy is 1 in a billion and on such another level you can just forget about it... bah ha!) and he does this all with a snobby kinda question that goes unanswered cuz you cant defend yourself. no, i dont think hitler wanted to die in a hole. there. that kills that thought experiment.

@symphonicsilence3

5 жыл бұрын

You can't really construct your own values. That was Peterson's argument to that. I dont think the overman can exist to any man. Were not logical beings. We have methaporical chains on us at all times, whether you know it or not. The Christian Fundmentalist thinking may be flawed, but it has utility at the end of the day. And hell, maybe it ain't that flawed. Just pick a set of values that can benefit you and maybe others for the longest set of time. And attempt to be happy. I prefer a set a values that make me happy, though I'm a cynic at heart.

@symphonicsilence3

5 жыл бұрын

@Doctor Drywell I believe you can choose your values at the end of the day. You do have choice. But at the end of the day you're still shackled to an ethic/moral. That might as well be your god. Not to sound like I'm attacking you homie but, your whole diety argument is slightly flawed. You dont have to say you believe in god or not. At the end of the day it's kinda like a feeling. Though that is a poor explanation ,I dont really want to argue the existence of god. To be fair it really doesn't matter at the end of the day. Just try to be an ideal and try to enjoy life if you can.

This might be the most important video I've seen on youtube. I feel like the direction of my life changed & solidified at the same time somehow just now.

@skellyjell

7 жыл бұрын

Almost like a, recapitulation? ;)

@TOAOM123

5 жыл бұрын

But have you seen butt cheeks sonic?

@berizont

4 жыл бұрын

then start reading the actual source of that wind of change, named Nietzsche

Wisdom is a woman and she always loves a warrior. Thus spoke Zarathustra.

I watched your interview with Saad and thought I was picking up on a nuanced view of Nietzsche--particularly when you touched on the idea that mans' most central values are religious in nature. I'm excited to watch the other videos on Nietzsche/Jung/Morality/Existentialism etc. I'm glad to have finally found an accessible contemporary thinker who explores these ideas.

Thanks for this, the world needs more people like you.

@XKK85

3 жыл бұрын

Tend to get beaten to pieces

Thank you for posting this, and all the other videos you have posted in the past. I am learning so much from watching - and trying to live - your videos. Thanks again!

Around 10 minutes or so where you give a great answer for why someone might want to read a great philosopher (like Nietzsche)-thank you! This is a great reason for why a formal education is unique, too; (a good formal education, anyway) exposes you and has you engaging in dialectic with great material that professors and other students have recently read together as a community of learners, which builds over the 4 years. I’ve been watching vids of you to see what people are liking (and not liking) about you. But I’ve just been enjoying the way you lay out your thoughts. It’s awesome people are thinking about the objectively positive writings of Nietzsche that are still the most useful and poetic phenomenology-type philosophy I’ve read.

Such an amazing video! This is my 4th time watching it, his enthusiasm while deciphering Nietzsche's texts is like watching a child play with a new toy.

"What makes you think you're a reliable judge of what you're up to?" 26:00

@picardoi8742

7 жыл бұрын

gngndthg jyhhf i know what i am up to, sure i do. i know what my goal is and how i will achieve it, but why i want that goal is something i dont know myself , as with everything, but the desire for goals is an inevitable part of human being. humans need to have a goal no matter now frivolous

@BrettonFerguson

7 жыл бұрын

You think you know what your goal is. But you may have goals you are not aware of.

@thetravelinghermit

7 жыл бұрын

gngndthg jyhhf Nice profile pic...I think, I'm not certain.

@robertpalmer8371

7 жыл бұрын

maybe my subconscious wants to die like Hitler in a bunker, with the world in flames above me?

@starmurp

4 жыл бұрын

You don't know what you want.

Thank you for unpacking this paragraph from Beyond Good and Evil and explaining the process of Nietzsche's writing. It's a very fruitful way of understanding these kinds of texts. I hope there will be a lot more of these kinds of videos dealing with the existential philosophers, especially Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard.

@XKK85

3 жыл бұрын

Academy of ideas is daring

I feel like Dr Peterson always provides a sort of meta-view, intermixed with his own original thought which provides a framework within which to understand these great thinkers in conjunction.

@LeeboProductions

7 жыл бұрын

If you listen carefully, you can hear his story and his aims... He can't help but reveal them.

@philip-johnkmauro3875

6 жыл бұрын

How right you are sir! If I work hard enough I can get you to spend some time on youtubemusicsucks.com. And that is something like a new music community who love Psychology, David Bowie, and Can (the band)! Check it.

@jonasdamion1627

5 жыл бұрын

what.. what does that have to do with the content of what he's saying

@dainodawg3160

4 жыл бұрын

oh wow, so you're trying to say, he "explained" what friedrich was saying? lol, everybody is horribly verbose in JP comments.

@Fausto410

4 жыл бұрын

Well put...

I think I enjoy listening to Jordan Peterson and learning from him not just because he is significantly more intelligent than me, but because I am willing to admit that he is significantly more intelligent than me. His intelligence demands respect, and my demand is satisfied by his intelligence. A toast may need to be raised to never watching buzzfeed again.

@choch72

6 жыл бұрын

Have You Seen Chef? Have you ever found it interesting that Buzzfeed, a list site, is inhabited by people who believe in classless societies and believe hierarchies aren't necessary?

@fayefallon3027

5 жыл бұрын

me too

@heathervogt3409

4 жыл бұрын

He just read alot more books and hes born into a culture that gave the most gifts to white men to thrive.

@jaysilverstone7221

3 жыл бұрын

@@heathervogt3409 boring

@ziparis

3 жыл бұрын

It's not just intelligence - it's what he's done with it. He's put it to good and meaningful use.

Great video! You're passionate about "knowing thyself" which I find to be a rare quality in most "philosophers". The first chapter in Beyond Good and Evil is one of the great masterpieces of psychology, imo.

I had the same experiences that Prof. Peterson had been through while reading Nietzsche which continuously blow my mind away. But even though i had the same enthusiasm to explain it or articulate my own ideas about this book to the people or even to myself i am always finding myself not qualified for those skills. In here, in this video, i again felt the same enlightenment and inspiration by Prof. Peterson's skill to explain the book so clearly and accuralately that my mind blow away again not only with the thought of Nietzsche but intelligence of his own.

Thanks for sharing. I have been on a Hegel funk for a while now and trying to push myself into Nietzsche, and this lecture provoked my interest to continue into Nietzsche's world. I appreciate your forum and found your presentation kind and inspiring. Looking forward to whatever comes along in your next thesis or insight. I like these longer discourses more so than the quickie thoughts.

I think one of your internal spirits wants you to quench your thirst by taking a drink of that water, but some other spirits are preventing you from doing so. Just something to be aware of. Stay hydrated!

@wiseypinguin7516

5 жыл бұрын

# MickJenkins

@AnnaLVajda

4 жыл бұрын

His thirst for knowledge is stronger than his physical instincts.

First read this outdoors beside a lake on a warm Spring day at 24 as an undergrad and it changed my life forever for the better!

Exceptional video. Your analysis is superb. Thank you sir!

--------- Here's the section to which he's referring, read before watching! ----------- It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of-namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious auto-biography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown. Indeed, to understand how the abstract metaphysical assertions of a philosopher have been arrived at, it is always well (and wise) to first ask oneself: ‘What morality do they (or does he) aim at?’ Accordingly, I do not believe that an ‘impulse to knowledge’ is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument. But whoever considers the fundamental impulses of man with a view to determining how far they may have here acted as INSPIRING GENII (or as demons), will find that they have all practiced philosophy at one time or another, and that each one of them would have been only too glad to look upon itself as the ultimate end of existence and the legitimate LORD over all the other impulses. For every impulse is imperious, and as SUCH, attempts to philosophize. To be sure, in the case of scholars, in the case of really scientific men, it may be otherwise-‘better,’ if you will; there there may really be such a thing as an ‘impulse to knowledge,’ some kind of small, independent clock-work, which, when well wound up, works away industriously to that end, WITHOUT the rest of the scholarly impulses taking any material part therein. The actual ‘interests’ of the scholar, therefore, are generally in quite another direction-in the family, perhaps, or in money-making, or in politics; it is, in fact, almost indifferent at what point of research his little machine is placed, and whether the hopeful young worker becomes a good philologist, a mushroom specialist, or a chemist; he is not CHARACTERIZED by becoming this or that. In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to WHO HE IS,-that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other.

A book reading of a complex book like this is something that a lot of people could benefit. I would love to see more such videos

Thank you for the delightful insight and breakdown into a portion of Nietzsche's mind!

This brilliant, will have to read more of these guys, this so insightful.

Dear Prof. Peterson Thank you very much for taking the time to upload this and use your knowledge of Nietzsche to spread wisdom across the Globe. Also, hats off to you on the political frontier of Canada. Don't let the Bastards beat you down! Bests, UK

Thank you Jordan for introducing Nietzsche to me, and to a wider audience. I agree with you ( just by reading my first book by him-The Dawn of Day), i am underlining so many sentences on the page, that i am almost underlining all of them. Incredible accuracy and sharpness of his words, so much is said in just a few sentences. I am taking the book with me and reading it out loud to people, which i do not remember ever doing before. Brave and sharp-minded thinker, truly worth digging further into it.

Dr. Peterson I love your vids and they really help me get closer to complex concepts and ideas but.... every time you grab a glass or a bottle of water and you DON'T drink from it for ages I just can't help it and lose focus. I don't wanna rely on just listening cause you are very expressive and your body language complements enormously your message, so PLEASE ..take a sip , TAKE A SIP of WATER ! for Nietzsche's, Jung's sake ! :) Jokes aside , thank you professor ! I've been a Sam Harris listener and disciple for a long time and now yours too. The debates you guys had, first one included, were spectacular ! Glad to know everything's being sorted out now with the U of T. All the best !

I gotta exclaim that I am so happy to have a Professor, an academic teacher by my choosing. Dr. Peterson, thank you for accepting your coronation into Public Figure-hood.

@MrVisions

7 жыл бұрын

He does have that engaging panache that makes me reminisce about my old C.Psych prof. K.C. Hoffer.

@TheRedmurk0

7 жыл бұрын

Bodhi Sattva ststsytyrtrrreeeyyeyryryst

@19993gt

2 жыл бұрын

I concur

You are definetly my all time favorite professor .. thank You so much Dr Jordan

More videos like these please such a wealth of insights. I learned more about my life in 45 minutes than I did my entire life.

When Nietzcshe said that a philosopher is not primarily motivated by a desire to accumulate knowledge, it was like Bobby Flay saying that a chef is not motivated by a desire to acquire food.

@da33smith37

2 жыл бұрын

When Nietzsche says a philosopher is not primarily motivated by a desire to accumulate knowledge, he's saying also that he himself is not primarily seeking knowledge. He must have another agenda as well,, but may not be entirely transparent about what it is.

@nataliam9764

Жыл бұрын

I was, indeed, motivated by the desire of knowing the truth. That’s why, probably, God had mercy on me.

@drugin4168

3 ай бұрын

I took it as him saying that a philosopher views the acquisition of knowledge or argumentation as a means to satisfy their will to power. The will to power here doesn't mean the will to political power (though it is sometimes interpreted as such) but rather the will to be powerful (the is, the full maximization and realization of one's capacities).

Recently purchased a biography on Nietzsche - "I am Dynamite" at the back it references some his aphorisms, I read through them and stopped dead at this one - "The Kingdom Of Heaven is a condition of the heart" (I've shortened it slightly) incredible.

@christophersnedeker

Жыл бұрын

Cs lewis said hell is a condition of the heart, heaven is the opposite, heaven is reality itself.

This was really awesome and helpful! Thanks!

Fantastic. Keep em coming!

I read beyond good and evil and the science and health at the same time when I was 18. I loved Neitche even though I am very religious... I gave up on western philosophy and concentrated on music and Chinese language learning and my children blahblah blah. But now I am drifting back to my Christian philosophical routes. God bless Jordan ... Real prayer is good deeds sir and your free lectures are a catalyst of good. May a divine sword defend your cross

@goktugcengiz1717

7 жыл бұрын

Adam Snyder Please read Nietzsche again, I'm sure your opinion about your 'roots' will change drastically.

"its a series of bombs" I am not a man, I am dynamite!

Thank you, what a wonderful teacher you are Mr Peterson. I hope you’re recovery will be swift

stimulating thoughts, much to digest and think over. thanks for posting.

An hour and a half spent on a single 45min KZread video...

@myleg...

5 жыл бұрын

14 hours on a single KZread comment...

@Pppeeepppiii

5 жыл бұрын

@Jovan Jovanović Thats too much but I have a similar experience with TSZ, Stuff hurts my soul and rips my hearth, i'm trying to trespass it in a lighter way, reading the whole thing fast, so you can gain perspective of the chapters in relation to the others and the general meaning of the book as a whole, Nietzsche once said he hated his readers who stumbled and hurt with each stone they encounter.

@Pppeeepppiii

5 жыл бұрын

But he also said that the one who writes with blood knows that blood is spirit, and he who writes with sentences wants not to read but to be learned by memory. And man they sure get imprinted on the sensitive, he's also a poet besides being a master. His critics have called him a spider who catches the gullible, in his net of sentimentalism and romanticism, which I found partially true, there's plenty of suffering on incarnating his philosophy, understanding it... for a while I questioned the validity of wisdom itself, I changed to other literary generes and backed off.

@5days61

5 жыл бұрын

vule it took me 2 years to finish this response

@marshmelows

4 жыл бұрын

That must be a good solid time. And it's no joke man!

I just had this book in my hand two seconds ago. I picked it up a few months ago and it’s been sitting in a box since. As I read the authors name I heard Jordan Peterson’s voice pronouncing it in his funny Canadian accent lol. I put the book down and came to bed and scrolling through KZread feed this video popped up on me . Synchronicity! I have to read this I guess

Such a profound analysis. Bravo, J.P.

Thank you for affording the masses with insightful teaching. I love you.

Honestly was about to throw in the towel on this book. Glad I found this Dr P. “Dense” is perfect description. Gonna put on my big boy pants and give it another go.

@salesbuffet

5 жыл бұрын

How's it going?

@KnowThyself619

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah how is it going? I just started a month ago and it's taking me atleast a week for one page and I'm not sure if I'm understanding it at all.

@cooldude-on9gm

4 жыл бұрын

to all you guys struggling with nietzsche read paragraph 27 from beyond good and evil. his works are not supposed to be read casually, they are supposed to be hard and therefore any form of intelectual struggle which in the end produces interpretation is valuable - don't give up because its worth to get through it

@KnowThyself619

4 жыл бұрын

@@cooldude-on9gm thanks man, that's nice.

@impulsive1252

3 жыл бұрын

You don't need to understand everything (or anything) he is saying on your first read. As a matter of fact you're not going to. This is a book that you need to revisit over and over again.

“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of - namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.” Nietzsche

"what makes you think you're a reliable judge of what it is that you're up to." simply a bomb

Thanks Doc. For everything.

This is exactly what I’ve been trying to articulate for so long! Thank you on the very deepest level, a truly life changing affirmation for a young man like me

I'm reading Beyond Good & Evil right now and this was helpful. I think the comment about marking important points is very funny because I find myself in the same situation with great books. It might be useful to do more of these

So enjoyed hearing how you deconstruct statements and ideas.

Thanks, Prof. Peterson, for showing how Nietzsche's writing must be approached. This unpacking of concepts is what really blew me away when I first started reading N's works. The professor I had took much the same approach with us. It's more than a little daunting to realize a 3-page section can contain a novel's worth of information.

That "if you don't believe in something you couldn't organise your vision" thing is spot on. It happened to me just a few weeks ago that i realised i couldn't focus on the things in front of me (in terms of sight). And it had begun when i read nietzsche and oscar wilde (and a few others) and saw some fantastic movies. It made me re-examine why i believed in the things i believed in, what my biases were etc. I've to almost strengthen the muscles around my eyes and gradually reprogram them to look at the things in front of me. It's very tough

Read that book years ago my brain still hurts.

@me_oh_me_oh_my9390

4 жыл бұрын

fntime wtf

I loved this book so much, it completely changed the way I looked at the world in so many ways. It's good to know that it shares this renown in academia as well :)

This book is really awesome. Thanks for talking a bit about it.

Read this when I was 18 and it changed my life

Nietzsche's books are great. He helps me put it all together and see ahead. Sometimes the magnifying glass is on something I had vague ideas about, not knowing how it could or would make sense together and it's in the grey area so to say, and it would bother me, but then Fritz puts it all in a few sentences for you. Boom!

sir, what a pleasure to listen to you talk

thank u so much for sharing your great intellect and I am especially appreciative during this time of isolation.(covid-19)

Every time I listen to Dr. Peterson I feel like I have gained a few IQ points.

0:00 "So I'm going to read something" CROWD CHEERS

My copy of this book came in the mail today. I'm having to rewind this a bit pretty frequently to stay on task. This book should be a healthy challenge. Can't wait to read it again in 5 years too

It's a really inspiring quote, because in that sense, everyone is a philosopher. Or the philosopher's stone is the most basic archetype there is to self-awareness.

I found this video really helpful! As I have attempted to read Beyond Good and Evil and really struggle with understanding precisely what Nietzsche is getting at in particular sentences. Somehow I chose one of the hardest philosophers to start with. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't after the truth.

@markfisher6404

Жыл бұрын

I would suggest a more chronological approach to philosophy. Nietzsche was a philologist and wrote about the historical ideas of the human species while developing his arguments.

Holy crap. It’s amazing how much five years changed Peterson’s appearance.

the fact that i could understood the sentences despite me not being an english native speaker, even before he proceeded to explain them, made me want to read the whole book. thanks for the upload

This video was my reason to buy and read this book. All I can say about it (and this video) is: marvelous.

While I was listening to a girl in my class present her topic of Jihad I started to think about what she was doing. I had the idea that the information that she recounted was the information that her value system inspired her to seek out. This, and how she used examples to convey her ideas, showed me that we are all unconsciously revealing our aim and lives in our words.

Complex thinkers write one book, then hundreds books are written about the book. They can be a real pain to read. When I was new to reading books by intellectuals I at first thought it was a load of unreadable bollocks, then when went to the lecture, i realized that my reading skills and attention span were bollocks. Some books I can only understand through anamnesis (recollection from experience) cause the language is so unusual. Some of Platon` writings - translated from ancient greek to my native language - for example. Different culture, different language, but I also suspect that Platon might obscure the text by choice. His teacher, Socrates, was very aware of the dangers and limits of written text. As he said: the father of the text is not there to protect it. So let´s make it hard to read so that those who would misunderstand or misuse it will not bother to read it.

I would love to hear more material on your interpretations of Nietzsche. I feel like your perspective on Nietzsche has a lot of breadth so I feel like you would have some very interesting ideas to express. In addition, videos on how you fit Jung and Nietzsche together in terms of their commonalities and differences, and lastly, what research has followed both of them that progresses their lines of thought.

Wonderful! Thank you

"The very act of interacting with the world presupposes an ethic" this whole video is just 45 minutes of answers to questions i never asked damn

Was getting sleepy making a presentation for class. Then listened to this. Lol.

I love the way he free associates as he expresses his ideas. He has admitted that he learns to understand what he is thinking by listening to what and how he says what he says....and that is true. Often enough we can learn from what we say if we listen to ourselves. We can also evolve better ways of saying what we think by doing this.

I need to meet Jordan sometime, brilliant man, deserves better than what he gets for his attempts to help others. My hero.

Thank you. This was of course brilliant, but also a little distressing; but I guess that's par for the course - as JBP has said, ideas of this magnitude can destroy one's self concept, transforming it to "dead branches". It would be fabulous if JBP would do this for the whole book, but since this is not practical - we might need a study guide. I do. This is my experience as a beginner, for what it's worth and I would love feedback from JBP and other viewers who follow him - I'm using Gareth Southwell's beginner's guide, and the Brian Leiter blog for the time being. I got a lot initially from the "Great Courses" on Nietzsche. PS. The hour long interview with JBP from last year works well (for me) with this, so sharing that.

Professor Peterson, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Nietzsche's 'Genealogy'.

@XKK85

3 жыл бұрын

Message in a bottle: "What you heal in yourself, you heal in your bloodline"

Love your work Prof. Peterson

Something so deep he has the genius to articulate it that a interested student of such knowledge can understand it. This is an video but still valuable.

You have changed my life for the better. Where can I send you some better audio equipment? Lol

I bet that when he speaks with journalists he can oversee the conversation on slow motion as the spiderman movie and, based on his observations about their intentions and narcissism, decide on the degree of power and eloquence velocity to instill to his words to disarm them completely

26:00 Chilling the way he delivers the line looking straight at the camera

I`ve read most of the comments and suddenly felt an obligation to share a thought. Here he cites one of the humanity sharpest, most philosophically inclined, mind. What has eluded me till now, though this video had me contemplating the idea of beyond good and evil for far too many times, is that it ain`t the greatest one. Such a relief. Tear briefly shed finds its` closure.

Please improve the sound quality! Really great insight!

@Aperage87

7 жыл бұрын

The room ! Why would you give such an amazing lecture in these conditions. Bring in trees, a better chair, a library and woodwork. He deserves way better !

@CaptCutler

7 жыл бұрын

And for the love of God, get this man some patches for his blazer!

@SusanBaileyAmazingEstate

7 жыл бұрын

These circumstances are all conscious choices Dr. Peterson has made. He's not wearing a shirt, either, although he is wearing suspenders. All part of the effect.

It's fun to know that even someone like Jordan is having a hard time interpreting the density of each sentence. In other words, I may not be that stupid after all.

@ericwalker3588

4 жыл бұрын

Are you as stupid as you sound?

@brahimilyes681

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahaha

@19993gt

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I’m holding on by a thread, keep practicing and attempting to understand lol

I just asked myself, what would Jordan Peterson think about the book "Beyond good and evil", so I just googled "jordan Peterson Nietzsche" and there it was. Thank you Sir! I will really enjoy watching it.

Thank you! Inspiring..

Take a drink, damn you.

@gordonm7038

6 жыл бұрын

He's an uptight guy.

@ericwalker3588

4 жыл бұрын

What he is talking about and all you can say is take a drink???

First and foremost thank you for this video and your elaborations: Some critical words permitted? 1.The sentence on which Dr. Peterson reflects upon could be written somewhere in the video... Otherwise one cannot really watch this video without a copy of the original book at one´s hand. Second comment: Or even a German - English study version of it. Although English might be a partially "German based - language" - one might loose twists and gists by the rendering of a translation! For me, it felt always harder to think properly in English than it was in German. I´d say German is more straight forward were as English is so much more poetic hence the multi - layered versions of synonyms - therefore it´s much harder to think straight in English. But some people like Alan Watts and Dr. Peterson do a phantastic job... Please don´t mind if I made any spelling mistakes.

@brutallyremastered4255

3 жыл бұрын

Great comment. Also: Hoch Deutsch is very pleasing to the ear whereas English easily suffers the indelicacies of locality!

@kiliankiel1250

3 жыл бұрын

@@brutallyremastered4255 Thank you for your answer (comment). Well, in my outlook the English language is much harder to master when it comes to formulating clear sentences. It is a much broader, wider and more poetic language. Therefore examples of witt and eloquence like Alan Watts appear to be much rarer. It is on the other hand far easier to think straight and outright using the German language. At least this is what I have experiences so far. Hochdeutsch ist natürlich auch so eine Sache. Denn in allen Landesteilen verstehen dich die Leute, was nicht heißen muss, dass du sie auch verstehst.

@kiliankiel1250

3 жыл бұрын

@@brutallyremastered4255 Thank you for your answer. In my understanding English is a much broader, wider and thus more poetic language. It is therefore much harder to "master". Hochdeutsch hat auch so seine Tücken. In allen Landesteilen verstehen sie dich, was nicht heißen must, dass du die anderen auch verstehst.

That 4 second intro is dope, found my head nodding in response.

Your lectures are indispensable to anyone whom wishes to delve deeper into the history of epistemology and the humanities. I would not touch drugs with a bargepole and so videos like yours are my only way of intoxicating myself. Drinking from the fountain of knowledge and becoming inebriated.