Chapter 5.2: Friedrich Nietzsche, the attack on truth

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[TheMaginor]

"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!" - Friedrich Nietzsche

[mamamiabenjamia]

i've been exposed to enough philosophy to know there's no way in hell i could ever debate this or add to it or make any serious contribution without studying for years. the specific details of philosophy, the endless, painstaking semantics are so critically specific that if you don't know what to look for, one philosophy can practically sound identical to another but not mean the same thing at all. it's all fascinating enough just to consider and try to understand.

[Moribus_Artibus]

Nietzsche is so bold.
Philosophy with a hammer! 🔨

[thegreenpotato]

Great series! Thank you very much for your hard work

[mouwersor]

Nietzsches perpsectivism is so underrated, modern epistemologists still have found no answer to his denial of metaphysical truth-entities.

[ablestarofficial]

The truth is clarity. The unknown breeds fear.

[thehistorypost]

Making us understanding complex ideas and concepts thanx..

[frodojuniormlg]

what about truth is the theory that best explains all the evidence and has the most predictive power ?
sure there will never be objective truth but can we maybe get very close ?

[danielleach]

My survival depends on knowing more than my organism needs to subsist. Thank you Victor and Friedrich that I might be able gaze upon the heavens.

[mightynathaniel]

Never heard of this Nietzsche guy, was he pretty popular? what was his youtube channel called or his website? thanks 👍

[charleschong]

And yet, regardless of any myriad of "language" each of the blind mice may use to describe their "truth" of the elephant, the elephant nonetheless exists.

[ablestarofficial]

If we haven't focused to find it, why does that mean it's unattainable?

[jamesbarlow]

(4:50). Somewhere else Nietzsche reports this insight as, " 'Truth' is a kind of lie without which a certain species could not endure life!"

[sam-lzpi]

“What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms"

[dubtingThoms]

These value judegments that people disagree on don't seem to have the same sort of useful, predictive truth as scientific understanding.

[honour]

Who is the second philosopher who mentioned after Nietzsche at 6:09?

[AstroSquid]

So at the end, the argument of truth and foundations. The reality of that is it's an egotistical search for a judgment vs a better understanding. When a judgment is made a benefit can be had at another person expense. ie, I know what reality is and you don't, there fore I'm more entitled than you. So the experience of reality is high jacked by ego and it's imposing of an hierarchy, when that is the choice being made to evoke a tribal power. Or another choice is to not seek power via tribal aspects of language, but instead seek to understand more and know the limits of language and humans ability to remember and logically parse out information.

[MegaSudjai]

In a way, Nietzsche contradicts himself (as presented in this video), which ironically supports his notion of Truth as a contradiction. ie we have evolved as a species to judge stimuli in order to increase in Power;, and yet he claims - as the post-modernists do - that there is no Truth; only perspectives. However, in order to increase our chances of survival and flourishing, we must make judgements (on truth vs non-truth) that best serve that evolutionary self-interest. Hence: there IS objective truth. And that objective is: the enhancement of the species.

[ceesjanmol]

Running away from a snake does not require language. Teaching a child that snakes are bad and should be fun away from, does. Language only imposes a structure on the world, when that structure had socially co-evolved with a culture in which kids run away from a snake and think sheep are cute.

[abcrane]

anyone who is interested in this should check out Lain McGilchrist, a sort of genealogy of the brain hemispheres' different ways of understanding and operating within the world.