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Was Nietzsche really individualist? Post-Socrates version

Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. Yet frequently Nietzsche rejects individualism and elements that go into a full account of individualism. For example, note this from his The Struggle Between Science and Wisdom: “Beginning with Socrates, the individual all at once began to take himself too seriously” (SSW 132). Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is […]

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Stephen Hicks | The Life & Philosophy Of Friedrich Nietzsche

Ryan Faulkner-Hogg and I had three long-form conversations about Nietzsche’s intellectual journey, one conversation on his early activities, one on the middle works, and one on his later life. At Atlas Geographica channel, all three conversations are integrated into a three-hour uber-conversation: Related: * Nietzsche and the Nazis.* Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand.

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Was Nietzsche individualist? Individual-as-error version

Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. But note this from his Twilight of the Idols: “For the individual, the ‘single man,’ as people and philosophers have hitherto understood him, is an error; he does not constitute a separate entity, an atom, a ‘link in the chain,’ something merely inherited from the past—he constitutes

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Was Nietzsche individualist? Ordering-of-rank version

Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. But note this from his The Will to Power: “My philosophy aims at ordering of rank not at an individualistic morality” (287; emphasis in the original). Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is complicated. For more, check out my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” (audio version; text version).

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Nietzsche’s *Zarathustra* and *Beyond Good and Evil*, with Faulkner-Hogg

Stephen Hicks and Ryan Faulkner-Hogg discuss the great philosopher’s mature period. Who is Zarathustra? How does one become who one really is? What explains the Great Inversion: the decline of master morality and the rise of slave morality? Related: Ryan and Stephen discussing the influence of Schopenhauer on the young Nietzsche. Stephen Hicks’s Nietzsche and

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Approaching 4 million views: *Nietzsche and the Nazis* documentary/book

The original documentary was produced in 2006 and had success with Netflix. The print book came out in 2010, followed by several translations. This audiobook edition was produced in 2013. For a philosophy book, this is unexpected, and when it gets to four million views we will be popping the champagne bottle literally and figuratively.

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Was Nietzsche individualist? Art-versus-individualism version

Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. But note this from his early The Birth of Tragedy: “the subject—the striving individual bent on furthering his egoistic purposes—can be thought of only as the enemy of art, never its source.” Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is complicated. For more, check out my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand”

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“Friedrich Nietzsche in Three Parts” — Sprouts Schools animation

Trailer/excerpt here. From the description: “Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher and cultural critic whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. Unfortunately, Nietzsche was often misunderstood, demonized, and later misused by the Nazis. “Many of you repeatedly asked us to cover Nietzsche’s thought-provoking ideas. We very lucky to have collaborated on

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Nietzsche on Kant, and his influence upon Postmodernism [Pope Lecture]

In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason. He then examines a series postmodern (and fellow-traveler) thinkers

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