Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness - Part 6. Nietzsche on Hardship

Written by Alain De Botton / 25 min.

Part 1: Socrates on Self-Confidence
Part 2: Epicurus on Happiness
Part 3: Seneca on Anger
Part 4: Montaigne on Self-Esteem
Part 5: Schopenhauer on Love
Part 6: Nietzsche on Hardship

More? Alain De Button @ Wikipedia and Nietzsche @ Wikipedia

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Posted by orangeguru at 2007-12-27 (9:05).
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8 responses to 'Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness - Part 6. Nietzsche on Hardship'

mo

Excellently!…a fantastic series - so lifelike! great!

@mo: I thought you might like it. I’ll post another longer Nitzsche video next week - a biography about him.

mo

I’m curious about it…
It seems as if you have acquire a taste for the fascination of Nietzsche …a little bit?!
I think he is a good starting point to find a casual entrance to other philosophic issues …and the ´orange-way` to approach is related with Nietzsches way to philosophize - because this is my sole explanation for your fast approach… …like i`ve guessed! ;-)

@mo: Yes and no. I am constantly sucking up material about Philosophers as much as I can comprehend them. And all these videos about Nitzsche and the other great thinkers just appeared recently on the web.

mo

Even a man from a mental caliber like orange needs a certain time for that, what brainy people ever have concocted…
think about: i knew somebody, who study philosophy now in the 8th Year. But now for the first time he deal with Schopenhauer,
Kirkegaard …and Nietzsche.
Also, step by step, every time a good digestible tidbit… - and this autodidactic way, i find much better like this academic brain-distortion.

@Mo: For me personally I need time to really understand what they meant and how significant it is for me today. Nietzsche’s thought’s were brilliant in his days - and I regard him as one of the first really modern thinkers, because he put an end to that dreadful and boring “does god exist” discussion …

mo

Thats a good beginning… If N. said: God is death - i think he meant the moral god …but this is an important step for more freedom in life. Spiritual freedom and freedom generally!

@Mo: Yes, in the moral and real sense - Nietzsche declared God dead - but most of all he declared Christianity bankrupt.

Nietzsche and Heidegger and most of all Sartre made total freedom their topic - which also perfectly fits the era. Freedom from all old ideas, morals and constraints.

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