Nietzsche and Morality: The Higher Man and The Herd

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In this video we investigate Nietzsche's views on morality by contrasting the higher man and the herd. We investigate how a herd morality develops, and the threat it poses to the existence of great individuals (higher human beings). We conclude by examining the existence of herd morality in the modern world.
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[Raininutside]

Witness a comments section in which each believes themselves separate from the herd.

[TheSilverGate]

I've learned more from this channel than all of my years in the education system

[emperorstevee]

Western man A: "I'm a higher man, I'm different from the herd with my unique rebellious tattoos, beard, piercings, social justice causes etc"
Man B: Me, too
Man C: Me, too
Man D: Me, too
etc

[DrumWild]

Herd morality can be found in abundance on the internet.

[DivinePollination]

Words cannot adequately express how pertinent this video, and the words of Nietzsche, are right now. Thank you so much for your thoughtful and relevant videos.

[Jose-wvwq]

Amazing this philosophy perfectly describes our current society.

[johnjohnson]

I'm definitely the slave. I think I've got some work to do...

[ThethHooh]

Sometimes I feel like a higher man, but other times I feel like the lowliest slave. I guess those are the competing urges for acceptance and greatness that we all face.

[ShazyKazzy]

Everything makes so much more sense now. I have always found resentment when I follow what everyone else does. Now I'm going to change and strive to be the higher man. Towards a new Avalon!

[abram]

If read incorrectly, Nietzsche may appear offensive and belittling to many.

If read correctly though, Nietzsche made it quite clear that the herd morality he so despised is just that; a mentality. It's not an innate characteristic. It's a temporary error that can and should be remedied-which is why he was so frustrated with the mass. Hence it may corrupt the great men. He never said something along the lines of "you're either a herd or a great man" in which case he would indeed have been insulting. If that is what he preached, he wouldn't have any reason to be so worried about the spread of mediocrity.

I believe that Nietzsche intention was not to create a social separation between the herd and the great men. Or to urge the great men to unite and genocide the herd. Quite the contrary, the best way to eliminate the herd would not be to kill them all but to turn them into great men instead and that's exactly what he wanted imo.

[markw]

Or as grandma used to tell me: "90% of people are just crabs in a crabpot. Try to escape and they'll drag you right back in."

[ciyyy]

“If their is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm” 🙏

[henrywho]

Obsessed with greatness. "The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."

[mommymaks]

“Masking their envy with calls for equality” wow now that’s amazingly profound in my opinion.

[diego]

For the slave despite the innocent facade he display with his herd morality and calls for equality he doesn't desire to change the world for the better instead driven by resentment and envy he seeks to gain social and political power for the purpose of provoking destruction as compensation of his own personal impotence and failure

😨😨😨😨

[constantinesmith]

“Equality is a false god” makes sense now.

[forestranger]

Crucifixion of Socrates, jesus, osho..Hurling stones at buddha and mahavir ..Herds revenge against higher men

[alisaleh]

this whole theory is a damnation of communism "banding together to obtain a communal feeling of power, the only type of power available to the slave"

[herropreaseherro]

I believe Nietzsche is the Sith lord we have been looking for

[DawggBone]

It's mind blowing that someone could understand these ideas. The herd is strong which causes the higher man to conceal oneself and even blend in at times just to live to see another day. Theses ideas will be passed over for many generations and then one day in the future be understood. Nietzsche was a sharp man it seems.