Friedrich Nietzsche, Lecture 4: Laughter, Dance and the Will to Power

This video explores Nietzsche's idea of the Will to Power, and then the place of playfulness and humor in his thought.

[JanAndhisfiets]

Awesome. What time to be alive. Quality lectures just for free. thanks.

[docjohnson]

What a great subtle and instructive and perhaps even to actually understand what Nietzscheee was talking

[henryjenkins]

This is such a terrific series, I really enjoy hearing you speak. Hope there's more to come!

[sdfsdfs]

The lesson started very good but turned laughable near the end.

[skeleton-man]

Thanks, Eric. You're a gifted teacher

[abhaychowdhry]

I want to watch the fifth lecture so badly but its time for me to sleep as i have to get up early, i cant make my mind!!

[miglenas]

Vector forces swinging around the axes where opposites storm with tension... that must the dancing floor of our dare and pretty colorful life we have been given. So, dance it. Till the end. Dance it, like it is your last one. ❤ Damn it - make the heavy light! Or... make it vice versa! All will work out for you. All will come to you one day - as laughter. And dance. As joy. A joyful moment called Life - with the eyes of a child... ❤

[JamieEHILLS]

Thank you Professor, these lectures are gold! Hope youre doing well.
- A new Australian student

[duellingscarguevara]

So, what happened to his pets?...were they re-united, in the afterlife?...futurama, was one of the goat, tv shows..(bender is the dog, in adventure time..good cartoon too..).
Cartoons, can do, the impossible?..

[duellingscarguevara]

I like the Germans, things they say stand out, (even in english)..herman hesse, in steppenwolf, said laughter was the music, of the oher side, (in a discourse, about the difference between brhams, and mozart)..i recall that, from 30 years ago.. that had gravitas, for me..(no-one, made me read it, it was just a suggestion).

[Helena-jyhe]

Could you please make videos on Foucault as well. These are really helpful.

[ishangyan]

I have read 2 books of Nietzsche BG&E and Zarathustra and started reading Genealogy of morals
listening to your lectures helps me make sense of it

[pendejo]

I see your you're familiar with the linguistics of academic snobbery and self-seriousness without being taken by it. Then again, since you're very first video on Sartre, I knew that your response to absurdity was most likely a humorous one.

[AlexS-biof]

Nietzsche is the only philosopher I've ever read that you can scroll through with a pencil marking out quotations to find that not only are there quotations within the quotations but the quotations, when you start making them come to overlap eachother.

[Well_Earned_Siesta]

18:40 is what I hated most about the academy, and one of the major reasons why I left. Really awesome series btw!

[sarishalekhi]

as someone from engineering who loves philosophy but could not pursue it, i love this

[sattarabus]

A dry vapid lecture. The micrological and macrological components of will to power pushed the sensorium over the edge. No need to spell ludic for watchers who have internalized the German 'der Wille zur Macht'. All the same I am going to listen to the fifth lecture. Make it a cocktail of 'gravitas, levitas, and simplicitas', professor.

[Sponge]

(A novice here) A question I would have for Nietzsche — given that will to power in his sense is the fundamental driving force, the "ontological principle" driving humanity, how does this relate to the concept of nominalism? I understand that Nietzsche primarily focused on the will to power i.e the establishment of values within the terrain of subjectivity, but what would his take be on the nature of things? Does one know because it was willed in some fashion, or can one will because one knows? Is there a rational order to the world the exists outside of your mental capacities that possesses a natural order, or is this just another mask, or something else? My brain feels like it's in a knot just trying to think of these things.

[brutexrp]

I keep thinking of Alfred Adler every time you mention 'will to power".

[JafarFarahmand]

It’s year 2022 and I have watched JP Sartre and this series till here and I could not be more thankful to you and the pandemic that made these videos possible, thank you!