…of the upanishads that had given him this great, great inspiration which was the underlying thought of his whole philosophy, Nietzsche also, one after another. Then, after the second world war, we have the Japanese, the Zen, the Buddhist thing coming…

…creator of servants and the servant owes his whole existence to the god. There you get a totally different. This is why Nietzsche called this tradition the tradition of slave morality. It's a morality of obedience to a Superior being and the Greek is the…

…health and the sentiment of participation in the critical attitude of those who saw that health as inferior to the possibilities. Now Nietzsche, who was Thomas Mann's guiding guru you might say in his youth had already spoken of the mystery of disease and…

…advances in our sciences have come by way of medicine you might say which deals with what's wrong with people. And so Nietzsche associated thinking with disease with the decadence. It's when a culture begins to think about itself that it's on the way…

…and so forth, but it's when the aches and pains begin to come that you begin to think about them. And for Nietzsche, of course Socrates represented the beginning of the decadence in the classical tradition. He began going around asking people about things…

…even love becomes a problem, marriage becomes a problem. It's the period of problems instead of simply doing things. So we have Nietzsche speaking about these two poles: health and sickness. He spoke of going from the sphere of health through the sphere of…

…of sickness that that margin can contain. It's quite different from the idea of the master man that people usually associate with Nietzsche. His superman is one who contains the two but where sickness does not overthrow health but rather is in its service,…

…or another. A philosopher whose function is rather intuition than sensation is terribly difficult to classify. And here you have Nietzsche for example, who speaks of himself as a dancing philosopher. He keeps shifting ground and what he calls perspectivism is…

…of the way in which our sense organs experience the world, namely in a field of time and space which creates what Nietzsche calls the principium individuo actionis the individuating principle which separates us. Now the aim of myths is to carry you past…

…imagery of the Christian Tradition. For Thomas Mann, the great people were Goethe, Who's just inexhaustible with this stuff, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche then I also ran into Spengler the decline of the west and a really great anthropologist, Leo Frobenius. These…

…do those two come together? I think what he's talking about is the spontaneity. I think the answer to this comes from Nietzsche in his artister in the introduction it's curious to bring Nietzsche in as the one for Christ, because typically he's thought to…

…is the spontaneity. I think the answer to this comes from Nietzsche in his artister in the introduction it's curious to bring Nietzsche in as the one for Christ, because typically he's thought to be the antichrist. You know, he thought so himself a little…

…thought so himself a little bit but these are two great teachers, and great teachers frequently say similar things in different languages. Nietzsche says there are three stages of the spirit. I love this one. The first is that of the camel. The camel gets…

…the lowest range. Then the next and this is the awakening that comes in adolescence, is erotic. Suddenly life is transformed. Nietzsche Describes the first condition as groveling before sheer fact. There's no such thing as a sheer fact, there's only a fact…

…that's the great thing about it you know, as soon as you smash the local, provincial god form god comes back. And that's what Nietzsche meant when he said that god is dead. The god who's all fixed and defined in terms that were appropriate, let's say 2…

…who's all fixed and defined in terms that were appropriate, let's say 2 000 years ago is no longer an appropriate figure. And Nietzsche Who's the first, I think in the zarathustra to say well don't you know, god is dead, was himself not in the crude…

…of the Christian Tradition. For Tobias Mann, the great people were Goethe, Who's just inexhaustible with this stuff, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Then I also ran into Spengler, the decline of the west and a really great anthropologist, Leo Frobenius. These are…

…indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its Slough of pride. Fear, rationalized avarice and sanctified misunderstanding. Live, Nietzsche says as though the day were here. It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but…

…don't have court jesters that's true. The court jester represented another space, another position from which to judge one's action. Nietzsche says somewhere that in one's action one should perform with not more than three quarters of one's energy. That means…

…the Prometheus Myth says if you take job or something like that or Adam and eve in the Garden there you have guilt. Nietzsche, in his wonderful book the birth of tragedy, contrasts Prometheus with the fall in the Garden, and one is not primordial guilt,…

…How do those two come together? I think what he's talking about is the spontaneity. I think the answer to this comes from Nietzsche in his in the introduction. It's curious to bring Nietzsche in as the one for Christ, because typically he's thought to be…

…about is the spontaneity. I think the answer to this comes from Nietzsche in his in the introduction. It's curious to bring Nietzsche in as the one for Christ, because typically he's thought to be the antichrist. You know, he thought so himself a little…

…thought so himself a little bit but these are two great teachers, and great teachers frequently say similar things in different languages. Nietzsche says there are three stages of the spirit. I love this one. The first is that of the camel. The camel gets…

…permitting the mind to know the one by virtue of the other this is the talent of the master. The cosmic dancer, declares Nietzsche does not REST Heavily on a single spot but gaily, lightly turns and leaps from one position to another. It is possible to…

…silences of his personal despair. It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero but precisely the reverse. Live Nietzsche tells us as though the day were here. Now to conclude, there's one other grail romance of this time, and this is…

…a glorious approach to life, that what has to be done, you do with such a will that you play at it. This is what Nietzsche calls the love of life, Amor Fati and it is the point that Spengler makes when he quotes seneca saying: he who goes with fate,…

…of duty. These are the three things by which we are bound: desire, as Freud tells us. Fear and aggression, as Adler and Nietzsche tell us. Duty, as our clergymen and social scientists tell us. These are the bondages from which the buddha is breaking as…

…disrespect, the notion that we are the great and so on. And so it comes about that the age has come that Nietzsche called the age of comparisons. There were formerly horizons within which people lived. There are now no more horizons, even the orbits…

…they were being objective. And then along comes the depth psychology, which was simply restating what had already been stated by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and before that Goethe, that there is a spirit within which moves things and the outer apparitions are…

…have a disorientation. Add to that the coming in of oriental, pagan, congolese, eskimo ideas. We are in a period that Nietzsche called the period of comparisons. There is no longer a culture horizon within which everybody believes the same thing. In other…

…which somehow isn't good for you and there's something else that is good and so you align yourself with the good against nature. Nietzsche has a saying that I ran into a few months ago: all ideals are wicked because they devaluate the facts. But he said…

…it's a major word: alles vergängliche ist nur ein gleichnis everything transitory everything temporal is but a metaphor. And then Nietzsche comes along and says: alles unvergängliche ist nur ein gleichnis everything eternal is but a metaphor. So we get stuck…

…thing in this dantean picture in contrast to the Indian. Let me just repeat some of you must know this the three ages that Nietzsche names in the thus spake zarathustra these are vivid and they fit this very well. The first age of man and of the…

…with the motive power in its own hub rolling ein aus sich rollendes rad, a wheel rolling out of its own center, says Nietzsche. These are the three transformations and again the free spirit is the one who has achieved freedom. But first and this is the…

…radiant generating and it is the sphere of youth. Then we come to maturity. Now the key to this, I think is in Nietzsche. In the introduction to the thus breaks our thirster, Nietzsche says there are three stages of spiritual life. The first is of…

…we come to maturity. Now the key to this, I think is in Nietzsche. In the introduction to the thus breaks our thirster, Nietzsche says there are three stages of spiritual life. The first is of childhood, the stage of the camel. The camel gets down on…

…And when you have killed the thou shalt. The third and final transformation is of the child. One becomes as a child or, as Nietzsche says, ein ausreichendes rad, a wheel rolling out of its own center, just out of its own center. So we have the child…

…as will and idea he's able to talk about western thinking in terms of oriental thinking the two come right together there Nietzsche picked this up and wow this is a whole new thrust in western school philosophy. So these are very important moments in…

…is only a secondary experience within the a priori frame of time and space, which is the separating principle, what Nietzsche calls the principium individuationis the individuating principle of time and space. If it weren't for time and space we would…

…appropriate to this dull condition is that of behaviorism, where you don't have an active psyche but only a reactive one. Nietzsche calls this position that of groveling before sheer fact. Actually there's no such thing as a sheer fact it's this object…

…world of Apollo and its interest in the exquisite differences of forms, the attention to the differences of forms, what Nietzsche calls the principium individuationis, and the indifference to the differences, but just the representing of the dynamic. This is…

…an example of a metaphor. Well the poor man fell apart. I mean I felt ashamed. You don't do anything like this to people. Nietzsche has a saying, I think it's zarathustra or the will to power one the pale criminal, the one who has the courage of the…

…Thomas Mann, after the magic mountain and that vision of Hans Castorp in the snow which was taken, as we saw yesterday from Nietzsche, when Mann begins then to move into the myth, as you might say, extrapolating that image, he has to turn to Jung, not…

…really marvelous things about his art. This is based on Nietzsche's Birth of tragedy. Again, at the end of the birth of tragedy, Nietzsche has a paragraph in which he gives an image that epitomizes the sense of his paper. We are in a beautiful classic…

…the 19th century, even though Freud had never read any of these. He did not know Schopenhauer, says Mann, he did not know Nietzsche, he did not know Kierkegaard and out of his ignorance, on his own boat he had reproduced the whole thing. Then he said…

…we come to the philosophers that influenced the two of them. Now the philosopher that influenced Wagner the most was Schopenhauer. As Nietzsche says at one point, brunnhilde, between acts 1 and 2, goes out and reads the world as will and idea and comes…

…the object in the world, not of the dynamic. It's the same nature that's eating itself through several figures. And when Nietzsche comes along then and reads Schopenhauer One of his early papers was Schopenhauer as educator, absolutely given all the way to…

…Greek Tragedy the two aspects are brought to a beautiful balance: the aspect of concern for the individual entity, what Nietzsche called the principium individuationis the individuating principle and the energy of the will which brings forth and destroys all…

…and the concern for the individual entity is what's represented in the what might I say radiance of the god Apollo. And Nietzsche shows in the birth of tragedy how in Greek Tragedy these two principles are perfectly United there is concern for the…

…about the camel and then lion, and along the way you lose the burden of youth, the three transformations of the spirit. That's Nietzsche, That's the prologue to thus spake zarathustra. Tell me that story when you are a child when you are young and a…

…headline. When the dragon is killed, the lion is transformed into a child, an innocent child living out of its own dynamic. And Nietzsche uses the term ein aus sich rollendes rad, a wheel rolling out of its own center. That's what you become that is the…

…the deities to himself. You might say: it's a different problem from that of psychoanalysis, where you remember I think it was Nietzsche who said: be careful less than casting out your devil you cast out the best thing that's in you. Here, the deities…

…appropriate to this dull condition is that of behaviorism, where you don't have an active psyche but only a reactive one. Nietzsche calls this position that of groveling before sheer fact. Actually there's no such thing as a sheer fact. It's this object…

…as well an idea he's able to talk about western thinking in terms of oriental thinking. The two come right together there Nietzsche picked this up and wow this is a whole new thrust in western school philosophy. So these are very important moments in…

…is only a secondary experience within the a priori frame of time and space which is the separating principle, what Nietzsche calls the principium individuationis the individuating principle of time and space. If it weren't for time and space, we would…

…world of Apollo and its interest in the exquisite differences of forms, the attention to the differences of forms, what Nietzsche calls the principium individuationis, and the indifference to the differences but just the representing of the dynamic. This is…

…and he said: the wonderful thing about Freud was that never having read any of the great romantic philosophers Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer and the REST he had, out of his own investigations, translated their romantic philosophy into medical language.…