Comments by "towardsthesun" (@M64936) on "Introduction to Nietzsche" video.

  1. It is sometimes but overman or Ubermensch (German) is more accurate. To use superman is to miss the primary feature Nietzsche had in mind - that one must go over, or "across and beyond" modern humanity, through self overcoming. One is not merely becoming a more powerful human, or a superman, but is overcoming the human altogether.
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  2. The video says Nietzsche's philosophy is open to interpretation - not all philosophy. His aphoristic style and the development of his ideas makes it open to interpretation depending on which books you take the ideas from and how much weight you give to certain concepts. I think the narrator just wanted to emphasize that this video is not absolute and all encompassing of his ideas, which in my opinion is admirable. Hate all you want, I completely disagree with you and I think many people would.
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  3. finalfantasy8911 Nietzsche did not think inflicting unnecessary and brutal pain and hardship on others was justified in any way shape or form. I did a PhD thesis on Nietzsche and have read a lot about him, and to be honest the claim that he would see a school shooting as a positive is the most ridiculous claim I have ever heard about him. I'm sorry but you really need to read more - based on your statement you do not understand and/or appreciate him on any level. "And there is nobody from whom I want beauty as much as from you who are powerful: let your kindness be your final self-conquest. Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you." (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
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  4. No it's a painting by van Gogh called Portrait of Dr. Gachet.
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  5. +7buddha Thought I'd come by and drop this in from a noted Nietzsche scholar: "Nietzsche’s works, whether by design or default, do not allow of uncontroversial interpretation. They obey with singular fidelity his own insistence that an artist cannot be mimetically represented, but only brought “to life again”. [HAH, 126]. In the interpretation of Nietzsche more than almost any other philosopher should be prefixed by the word “neo-”, as it is inevitably both one-sided and readily pressed into the service of the perspective of a particular interpreter." (Simon May, Nietzsche's Ethics and His War on Morality)
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  6. +7buddha Sorry but it actually goes against what you said. You misquote the video by saying Nietzsche's philosophy is "beyond interpretation", whereas the narrator says it is "open to multiple interpretations". So from the get go you're using a straw man argument. And the quote I posted by Simon May above validates the point that Nietzsche's philosophy, by design or default, "[does] not allow of uncontroversial interpretation", and therefore is "open to multiple interpretations".
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