Greatest Philosophers In History | Friedrich Nietzsche

08/08/20 • 22 min

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In the Greatest Philosophers In History series we do an in-depth exploration of the most fundamental ideas and views on life of the greatest philosophers in human history.

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the 19th century. He is regarded as one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy and intellectual history. He was a cultural critic of his era, of traditional European morality and religious fundamentalism, especially of Christianity.

Nietzsche shares his views on how he wants us to perceive the world liberating ourselves from oppressive tradition. The main concepts revolve around self-overcoming, perspectivism, human nobility, the will to power, the eternal recurrence, and the overman.

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━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (4:19) Self-overcoming (6:02) Perspectivism (7:21) Human Nobility (9:55) God is Dead (11:29) Critique of Christianity (13:44) Beyond Good and Evil (15:05) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (17:36) The Will to Power (18:59) The Eternal Recurrence (19:36) The Overman (21:15) Why You Should Read Nietzsche

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The Art of War is a book attributed to Sun Tzu, who is revered as a legendary historical military figure, as well as a philosopher, and whose real name is Sun Wu.

“The supreme Art of War is to subdue the enemy without fighting” – Sun Tzu.

The Art of War is not only concerned with modern warfare, but also spreads and influences the mindset of people in politics, games, and business. It presents a sort of philosophy, a state of mind or psychology for managing conflicts and winning battles. It is closely tied to the philosophy of Taoism, which follows the Tao or “The Way”. This short book covers most elegantly the strategies that one ought to bear in mind for the defeat of the enemy.

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━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (2:23) Chapter 1. Laying Plans (3:06) Chapter 2. Waging War (3:42) Chapter 3. Attack by Stratagem (4:25) Chapter 4. Tactical dispositions (4:32) Chapter 5. Energy (5:06) Chapter 6. Weak points and strong (5:33) Chapter 7. Maneuvering (6:16) Chapter 8. Variation of tactics (7:09) Chapter 9. The army on the march (7:48) Chapter 10. Terrain (8:26) Chapter 11. The nine situations (10:10) Chapter 12. Attack by fire (10:24) Chapter 13. The use of spies

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Greatest Philosophers in History | Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard was a profound and prolific 19th century writer and philosopher in the Danish Golden Age of intellectual and artistic activity. He wrote about how we choose to live and what it means to be alive, centred in the individual or “existing being”. He is regarded as the father of Existentialism. The stress of subjectivity is one of Kierkegaard’s main contributions. His concept of anxiety or angst is one of the most profound pre-Freudian works of psychology.

His most popular work includes the leap of faith, the concept of angst, the three stages on life (aesthetic, ethical, religious), among others. In the Greatest Philosophers In History series we do an in-depth exploration of the most fundamental ideas and views on life of the greatest philosophers in human history.

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━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (5:25) Kierkegaard’s “Philosophy” (9:21) Either/Or. The Two Stages: Aesthetic vs Ethical (11:17) Stages On Life’s Way. The Third Stage: The Religious (13:14) Fear and Trembling. The Religious vs The Ethical (14:08) Teleological Suspension of the Ethical (14:50) Knights of Infinite Resignation vs Knights of Faith (15:41) Anxiety and Angst (17:51) Leap of Faith (18:17) The Absurd (19:02) Find Your Own Truth (20:46) Kierkegaard’s Final Moments