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In this video we peel back the layers of Nietzsche’s theory of decadence to reveal the chilling truth behind the unraveling of civilizations. Join us as we delve into Nietzsche’s profound insights on the decline of cultures, exploring the hidden forces driving humanity towards self-destruction. Brace yourself for a thought-provoking journey into the heart of Nietzsche’s psychology of decadence.
1. Introduction: 00:00
2. Origins of the Soul: 01:32
3. Decadence: 07:51
4. Civilizational Decay: 17:49
5. Creative Self-Destruction: 26:12
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Nietzsche considered the great Socrates (and Jesus Christ, for that matter) to be "decadent," because Nietzsche thought that the human WILL should be considered supreme. Truth be known, Nietzsche suffered from the most common of human delusions – the biblical "original sin," truth be known – which is SELFISHNESS. And he didn't understand that the biblical "satan" (the devil, the serpent, the beast, the prince and god of this world) is actually the selfish human EGO. Nietzsche was (unknowingly) a satanist. So, how unsurprising it is that he eventually went insane. And how unfortunate that so many intellectuals follow his path. The biblical prophet Elijah has returned, as prophesied, and testifies.
Thanks for this video . Decadence makes it difficult for a culture to change for the better good .
Very well done. Thank you for the amazing content
Decadence is an emergent phenomena of wealth-inequality.
The reason Nazis and other assorted right-wing wankers like what Nietzsche said is that allows them to misrepresent a structural failure as a moral one.
„Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas, das überwinden werden soll. Was habt ihr gethan, ihn zu überwinden?“
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Superb. After reading nearly all of Nietzsche in 1876-79 I embarked on a journey of ten years covering 34 states, living in 5, and 8 countries, to try to fully grasp what he meant by "the advent of nihilism" and the more time went on the more fully did I come to appreciate the gravity and prescience of what he meant!
“What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism!
Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?
1. Point of departure: it is an error to consider 'social distress' or 'physiological degeneration' or, worse, corruption, as the cause of nihilism. Ours is the most decent and compassionate age. Distress, whether of the soul, body, or intellect, cannot of itself give birth to nihilism (i.e., the radical repudiation of value, meaning, and desirability). Such distress always permits a variety of interpretations. Rather: it is in one particular interpretation, the Christian-moral one, that nihilism is rooted.
2. The end of Christianity–at the hands of its own morality (which cannot be replaced), which turns against the Christian God (the sense of truthfulness, developed highly by Christianity, is nauseated by the falseness and mendaciousness of all Christian interpretations of the world and of history; rebound from 'God is truth' to the fanatical faith 'All is false'; a Buddhism of inaction).
3. Skepticism regarding morality is what is decisive. The end of the moral interpretation of the world, which no longer has any sanction after it has tried to escape into some beyond, leads to nihilism. 'Everything lacks meaning' (the untenability of one interpretation of the world, upon which a tremendous amount of energy has been lavished, awakens the suspicion that all interpretations of the world are false). Buddhistic tendency, a kind of yearning for Nothing. (Indian Buddhism is not the culmination of a thoroughly moralistic development; its nihilism is therefore full of morality that is not overcome: existence as punishment, existence construed as error, error thus as a punishment– is a moral valuation.)
4. Philosophical attempts to overcome the 'moral God' (Hegel, pantheism).
Overcoming popular ideals: the sage; the saint; the poet.
The antagonism of 'true' and 'beautiful' and 'good'."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)
"their most profound desire is that the war they are should come to an end"
damn bro
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He was surgical in describing the human condition
N. Schop,'s metaphysics are a philosophical result of Kant's turn to transcendental ontology, hence thoroughly " formalistuc" metaphysics of both, using generalist vague terms like "force" " will" as a replacement fir actual philosophical cosmology.
Decadence wasnt just decay, but also the space in which the arts could flourish. He considers the decadent age of Greece the same period in which the arts and philosophies flourished.