Nietzsche’s redemption of The Body: A rejection of Mind-Body Dualism

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  @ptag6 · 1 year ago

  I’ve listened to this video twice. I will listen again. Phenomenal work!

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  @metheiam5714 · 4 years ago

  One thing i've noticed relating to the mind-body dualism inherent today is that i've heard some people speak of "the brain and the body", similarly to "the mind and the body", or how the body can affect the brain, as if brains weren't a part of it. Brains are considered as the seat of the mind, but it still has to be separated or isolated from "the body". Kind of funny in my opinion.

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  @samuelinauen1038 · 4 years ago

  You never disappoint with your content ma man!! 👏🏻

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  @martinrea8548 · 3 years ago

  I am so glad the yt algo put me in touch with your channel. Fantastic lectures, thank you.

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  @CasperLeChat · 4 months ago

  Nietzsche anticipated the findings of neuroscience by a century.  Especially the emotional motivation of reason, and the society of mind,  I.E., the babble of competing inner voices.

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  @ih8sir · 2 years ago

  Nietzsche’s redemption of The Body: A rejection of Mind-Body Dualism <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc">00:00</a> 🧠 Most people in modern times have an intuitive conception of themselves primarily as minds, influenced by Enlightenment philosophy. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=88">01:28</a> 📚 René Descartes played a significant role in promoting the separation of the mind and body, known as Cartesian dualism. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=320">05:20</a> 🤔 Descartes&apos; philosophy led to the belief that the mind is certain while the body is distinct and doubtable, reinforcing the mind-body dualism. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=832">13:52</a> 🤯 Friedrich Nietzsche challenges the Enlightenment view of the self, emphasizing the self&apos;s identification with the body and rejecting the ego as the master. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=1152">19:12</a> 🤹 Nietzsche describes the self as a multiplicity of drives within the body, leading to inner conflicts and ambivalence. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=1268">21:08</a> 💡 Nietzsche asserts that consciousness emerges from unconscious physiological drives, challenging the notion of conscious control over these drives. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=1380">23:00</a> 🧠 Nietzsche explores human drives, instincts, and passions, questioning their nature and significance in relation to reason. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=1471">24:31</a> 🧘 Nietzsche argues that drives, not reason, produce human intellect and reason, with each drive possessing its own form of reasoning. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=1614">26:54</a> 🤔 Nietzsche questions whether human thinking is genuinely logical or merely a result of the competition between irrational drives concealed by consciousness. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=1836">30:36</a> 🤯 Nietzsche suggests that humans use fictions to hide the reality of being driven by multiple competing bodily impulses. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=2069">34:29</a> 😖 Nietzsche challenges the notion of pain and pleasure as objective phenomena, asserting they are creations of our nervous system in service of our drives. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=2245">37:25</a> 💪 Nietzsche criticizes the fear of passions and argues that suppressing them due to weakness is an aggravated form of stupidity. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=2530">42:10</a> ⛪ Nietzsche contrasts Christianity&apos;s hostility towards passions and desires with the Greeks, who spiritualized their passions. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=2584">43:04</a> 🤬 Nietzsche criticizes the church&apos;s method of combating passions, seeing it as hostile to life itself and enhancing the stupidity of passions. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=2728">45:28</a> 😡 Nietzsche notes that social norms require individuals to bear the displeasure of unsatisfied desires, and being unable to do so is considered immoral. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=2758">45:58</a> 🧠 Nietzsche challenges the notion of mind-body dualism, highlighting that animals respond to their drives immediately, while humans suppress and control their desires due to fear, morality, and social pressures. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=2927">48:47</a> 💡 Nietzsche suggests a solution to the problem of our relationship with drives: distinguishing between weakening and putting drives into service, emphasizing that we can channel our passions into productive avenues. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=3028">50:28</a> 🤔 Nietzsche outlines six distinct methods of dealing with powerful drives and notes that the intellect is a tool used in the struggle between these drives rather than a governing force. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=3169">52:49</a> 🔄 Sublimation, as introduced by Nietzsche, involves redirecting impulses into creative or constructive activities, serving as a means for individuals to cope with societal constraints on their desires. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=3363">56:03</a> 🧘 Nietzsche&apos;s perspective on sublimation, as a way to redirect and manage drives, was influential in the field of psychology, notably inspiring Freud&apos;s concepts. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=3567">59:27</a> 🤯 Nietzsche emphasizes our limited knowledge of the inner workings of our instincts and suggests that our moral judgments are based on physiological processes, often concealed from conscious awareness. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=3650">01:00:50</a> 💭 Nietzsche challenges the idea of a stable, unchangeable self, emphasizing that the self is a constantly evolving multiplicity, influenced by cultural, physiological, and experiential factors. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=3973">01:06:13</a> 🌱 Nietzsche proposes that individuals can act as &quot;gardeners&quot; of their impulses, cultivating and redirecting them, but our apparent stability of character is often an illusion, and the self is ever-changing. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=4058">01:07:38</a> 🌟 Nietzsche rejects the Enlightenment view of a stable, essential self, considering it impoverished, and instead sees the self as a dynamic and mysterious aspect of nature. <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=4207">01:10:07</a> 💡 Nietzsche criticizes the Enlightenment view that detaches the self from the body, emphasizing that the true self is not a pure spirit but a product of the body, senses, and impulses. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=4264">01:11:04</a> 🤔 Nietzsche challenges the idea that the body is a limitation on the true self, arguing that the spirit is a symptom of relative imperfection in the organism, and removing the body results in a &quot;pure stupidity.&quot; <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=4326">01:12:06</a> 💔 The Cartesian and Enlightenment view of the self as a pure mind driving a body is criticized by Nietzsche as fundamentally anti-life, as it neglects the importance of the body, its sensations, and experiences in defining the true self.

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  @pridefulworm · 9 months ago

  The mind as a sailor. The self as the wind.

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  @brydonmcleod1241 · 2 years ago

  Absolute ripper of an episode my man! Thanks.

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  @Harrow_ · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SgHGoQbRc&amp;t=2690">44:50</a> I think you missed a good opportunity here to correlate the blindness of a desire with the lack of a cause for it. What terrifies rational humans is the lack of a cause, as you explained in the podcast about the fallacies of logic. The fact that a person can act in such a foreign way to the “enlightened human”, without a why to his actions, is a truly terrifying thought to the rational/bound to causal relations mind.

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  @wadejameskennedy4495 · 2 years ago

  thank you. Keegan you are wonderful.

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  @alamix1986 · 2 months ago

  Great episode. I believe I should take my passions more seriously from now on.

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  @enlightenedturtle9507 · 4 years ago

  Very pleasant listening

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