How to Understand Nietzsche

From our video: NIETZSCHE Explained: The Joyful Science | God Is Dead | Eternal Recurrence (Full Analysis)

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OUR ANALYSES:

[bryanutility]

Thank goodness for this channel I don’t have time to read everything, would paralyze me with inaction.

[thefarmer]

Which nietzsches book should we start with?

[JJMcCullough]

Yeah but what’s the POINT? Why does he matter?

[amanofnoreputation]

The first think anyone should understand about Nietzsche is that his philosopy is of the nature of art: it is not a formulation designed to explain to you how to live but a kind of exuberance. If you are reading Nietzsche to get ahead in life or improve your mind, you've come to the wrong place. If you do read Nietzsche these things may still incidentally happen, but they are not the purpose of the work.

Even when Nietzsche seems to discuss good ways and bad ways of living, his philosophy, viewed in this naive way as a theory, is predicated on the notion that such qualities are inate in people: A free spirit could never live with the herd. A slave could never have the morality of a master. This is their "physilogy" (although Nietzsche used this term in a sense that is now outdated.) So there is nothing to do in this world but accept one's lot.

Sure enough, there is the Eternal Recurrence which asks just that: Can you accept things as they are knowing they are immutable? Nietzsche struggled with this in spite of himself: surely this is a forgone conclusion? If reality is not mutable, then the very fact that you resent it as desired the power to surpass is is immutable.
Even so, despite formulating the question himself, it made is very soul twist and his brain deteriorate.

[scoon]

Nietzche just throws shit at the wall.

[Witchdoctor]

First you have to understand him yourself but you can't because you're a subhuman let it go quit trying to muddy the water for Frederick

[Groove]

Most overrated philosopher ever he speaks more to the emotions rather than reason.