Rick Roderick on Nietzsche and the Death of God full length

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This video is 4th in the 8-part series, Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition (1991). • Lecture notes: • I. Nietzsche looks to see what type of person makes particular arguments or evaluations. • II. Greek values are noble but naive. • 1. Active force prevails over reactive forces (things that stand over the human will). • 2. The active type is noted for its ability to forget. • a. Mirror historicism involves people who wander idly through relics of the past. • b. Memory is needed in Christianity for things like the redemption story. • III. In Christian morality, reactive forces prevail over the active ones. • A. Principles stand in the way of what you want. • B. Christian achievements have always had some opposite perverse nature. • C. The denial of power eroticizes the world in a brand new way. • D. Sin is what Nietzsche thought was interesting about Christianity. • E. The weak revenged themselves on the strong. • F. In the Bible, the Devil introduces interpretation. • G. Nietzsche does not deny the power of Christianity. • H. Reactive forces endanger the species. • I. Resentment and guilt are fundamental to the substructure of Christian discourse. • IV. The spectre of nihilism: • A. The aesthetic ideal expresses a will to nothingness (in the decadent period of Christianity). • B. The problem in Christianity is not finding believers, but finding real people. • V. Nietzsche's parable of the death of God: • A. The parable talks about the drying up of a horizon of meaning and of a while form of human life. • B. The parable from The Gay Science ( The Madmen ) claims that we are responsible for God's death. • C. How shall we comfort ourselves now? • D. What are churches if not the tombs of God? • For more information, see http://www.rickroderick.org • A philosophy podcast, The Partially Examined Life, held a detailed discussion of Nietzsche, which can be found here: • http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/...

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