Absolutely stunning commentary ... love the energy and the movement with which you speak . Thanks a lot .

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome - and thanks

Thus Spoke Zarathustra was the first philosophical book I read and your bigger video's helped me get through it. I can't wait to re-read it after reading a few more authors and seeing more of your videos. I loved the connection between Nietzsche's One's own Virtue and Rilke's Conventions you did recently. I guess I took away from both that we shouldn't be content with conventional virtues we learn from Plato and friends and discover what we think is our own "being good". Thanks again for all these!

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

You could take that lesson away, or you might also conclude that Plato's virtues need to be understood past the "conventional" stage

@BakersDelightSam

5 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadlerThanks for the comment. Something to consider!

@abdulrafaefaisal5582

4 жыл бұрын

@BakersDelightSam, greetings. I've just started and find it bizarre and the sentence structure difficult to understand. Could you give me some suggestion regarding reading it and a link to the longer videos you mentioned in this comment? Thanks in anticipation.

I always look forward to your commentary. It’s been so helpful in my self-studies

@GregoryBSadler

Жыл бұрын

Glad the videos are useful for you

Thank you.

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

"I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule- and conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.) The powerful natures dominate, it is a neccessity, they need not lift one finger. Even if, in their lifetime, they bury themselves in a garden house!"- Friedrich Nietzsche

Wow! To stop wanting even want.... to be at ease with whatever it is, not even think of to be satisfied.... this is ultimate freedom

@tred698

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dr Sadler for explaining 👍

Thanks a lot sir 🙏

@GregoryBSadler

22 күн бұрын

You're welcome

The more I come to know Nietzsche's work, it's almost like he's suggesting a sort of Stoicism- accepting suffering and impermanence and not trying to wish things to be different through an illusory afterlife or trying to seek revenge through transvaluating values, but finding ways to be grateful even to your enemies. All his major ideas, the eternal recurrence, amor fati, all have a scent of stoicism to me. But Nietzsche doesn't believe that kind of existing is possible for just anyone, does he?

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

Well, he goes after the Stoics, often unfairly, fairly often. I think that quite a few of the bases of Nietzsche's philosophy and Stoicism are pretty incompatible.

@jdsword5943

5 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler yeah I read some passages of his works then where he calls them a life denying philosophy.

So essentially we're an episode of Jeremy Kyle Nietzsche's version of God! Pml! It's funny that you should refer to the world as being in a state of contraction, as I've recently started on a book that is based on the on premise that many of the world's greatest, universal and eternal truths are comprised by contradictions (or paradoxes as I like to refer to them to make it sound a bit more romantic and exciting! Lol) Love your videos and, of course, Nietzsche himself, I do sometimes struggle with his books, so this channel is pretty helpful. Keep up the good work, Emz x

@GregoryBSadler

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I tend to think that the more closely we look at things, and try to connect them up, the more contradictions do emerge. Some of them can be worked through - and just appear paradoxical for a while, but others perhaps are more intractable

I think this is one of the weakest and loosely tied concepts so far... even the idea of suffering god who builds ant farms only to burn them down seems very much elementary... almost too mediocre at best.

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

Nietzsche's criticizing it

@Matthew-hc7yl

4 жыл бұрын

It's not hard to see a reflection in ourselves today. Look at the reality TV drama we create.