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1973625 No.1973625 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any websites that have videos/text expanding and explaining Nietzsche's philosophy, in particular ones that are targeted towards beginners? I've looked through the sticky and haven't found anything that focuses on Nietzsche.

>> No.1973659

Nietzsche is very hard to summarize and therefore there isn't very much material covering his thoughts other then his own work.

>> No.1973724

fuck man, not to be a dick but besides early and mid-period plato nietzsche might be the easiest philosopher to understand because he writes like a normal human being. just read it, and then read it again while looking up things on wikipedia.

>> No.1973735

>>1973659

Thanks, I was thinking of something like videos that I would watch after reading that would expand on or explain some parts chapter by chapter.

>>1973724

Yeah I've heard that a lot. Should I just jump into Thus Spake Zarathustra? Or is there an easier work I should start on, or a particular order?

>> No.1973757

>>1973735
i would flip through human, all too human to get a feel for it (it's a collection of aphorisms), then zarathustra, then beyond good and evil, then genealogy of morals, then ecce homo

>> No.1973763

>>1973724
perhaps the problem is that he is the easiest for people to think they understand. His scope and inconsistency at times don't help the matter.

>> No.1973769

>>1973757

Thank you very much

>> No.1973776

Read "What is Called Thinking" or i guess "Was Heisst Denken" by Martin Heidegger. That should give you a good idea and food for thought.

>> No.1973782

>>1973763
please eloborate, as this sentence means absolutely nothing except:
1. nietzsche writes whatever the fuck he wants
2. i have a vague disdain

>> No.1973788

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SHhpGjqvJo

you shouldn't bother with Nietzsche too much, though. He's a shouty mongoloid

>> No.1973858

>>1973782
That's a little hyperbolic. I never said he wrote what he wanted. But he wrote alot, and sometimes it isn't clear how it all fits together. It's not obvious just by reading why he thinks the slave morality has been inverted and why christians represent that, but it's a key theme in some of his writing