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Based on the comments I want to make some clarifications.
To be self-reliant doesn't mean closing in on yourself and being unreceptive to the ideas of others. I read one comment that said: "You'll find yourself becoming a habitual contrarian for its own sake”. That is the opposite of being self-reliant, it's being conformist as you're reacting to others first and foremost, and not acting from within.
To be self-reliant means to be receptive to the ideas of others, just not dependent on them. You know your own truth as nobody else does. Often your own truth will appear from without, especially from the mouths of those close to you. But it is still your own truth.
To be self-reliant doesn’t mean living as a hermit in the forest either, that is a foolish conception of self-reliance. It means being inwardly independent, and is not mutually exclusive with cultivating a career or having a family. As Kipling said, it means “being your own man”, or to paraphrase Emerson, attaining the sweetness of independence in the midst of others.
Kierkegaard said "the inwardness of the existing person is the truth". When you understand that and live it, you have attained self-reliance.
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+mothman84 In the quote at 4:03 he was arguing against the idea that evolution always leads to "higher forms". Evolution works on a species wide level, and the mass always represents the average, or mediocre. Evolution can potentially result in a "levelling", whereby the mass are more or less the same, and hence not "higher".
Only select individuals can attain a "higher form". It is only the minority, the few, who can rise above the average. Nietzsche wasn't saying "No!" to a higher life, he was saying "No!" to the mediocre, the mundane.
It's interesting whether his will to no was stronger that his will to power. I think it's a struggle a lot of people have.
"Their fundamental faith simply has to be that society must not exist for society’s sake but only as the foundation and scaffolding on which a choice type of being is able to raise itself to its higher task and to a higher state of being—comparable to those sun-seeking vines of Java—they are called Sipo Matador—that so long and so often enclasp an oak tree with their tendrils until eventually, high above it but supported by it, they can unfold their crowns in the open light and display their happiness." (Nietzsche)
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Master mind You wrote: "When I read about these philosophers and their ideas, I always find my myself asking "How do these great ideas from these great philosophers translate into practical terms?" "What examples can these ideas be applied to?" I don’t really know how to take what they say and apply it practically. They just use abstract words and extremely vague and ambiguous statements and it is just subliminal and rhetoric."
If you're asking those questions in my opinion you have not learned how to appreciate philosophy, or you are reading the wrong philosophers (or not reading them at all). Figure out what their ideas mean to you as an individual, and how you can apply them to your specific life.
You asked, "what is the true nature", "how can you be sure this is the true nature". What do you think it is? And if you say you don't know and you can never be sure what it is, you're still taking a philosophical stance on the issue (look into skepticism/epistemological nihilism).
You can't avoid these philosophical questions in life. Either, through the help of great philosophers, you think them through consciously for yourself, or you live your life like most do - taking what is commonly accepted as true, and leaving it at that.
You also wrote: "I really get frustrated and irritated with the extreme vagueness of the language and that you are left with no clear illustrations or examples to interpret this and try to apply it to your life."
When you really appreciate and understand a philosopher's ideas it will change your actions and your way of life. A YouTube video will not give you this appreciation. Reading is necessary.
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