In this deeper dive into philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche we are going to look at his big ideas and his overall philosophy through the orienting generalisation of his thought as being health vs. decadence. Through this lens we can fruitfully place Nietzsche's "no-saying" work where he critiques Christianity, science and philosophy as well as his "yes-saying" work in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (with Zarathustra's three great ideas of the Ubermensch, the Eternal Recurrence and the Will to Power) and his fascination with the Greek god Dionysus. 

Nietzsche is commonly known as the Father of Existentialism but he could just as well be called the Father of Psychoanalysis or the Father of Postmodernism. Along with Marx and Freud, Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers in the past 200 years. 
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📖 Further Learning:
Videos: 
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Books:
- Basic Writings of Nietzsche edited by Walter Kaufmann (contains full texts of The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo) 
- The Portable Nietzsche edited by Walter Kaufmann (contains Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist)
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Media Used:

1. Despair and Triumph - Kevin MacLeod
2. End of the Era - Kevin MacLeod
3. Anguish - Kevin MacLeod
4.  Long Note Three - Kevin MacLeod
5. Lightless Dawn - Kevin MacLeod
6. Lost Frontier - Kevin MacLeod
7. There's Probably No Time - Chris Zabriskie
8. Mesmerize - Kevin MacLeod

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⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:52 The Crisis of Nihilism
10:02 Decadence I: Rationality
10:58 Decadence II: Morality
12:14 The Ascetic Ideal and Slave Morality
15:15 False Counter-Ideals: Science and Democracy
16:32 Health: Nietzsche's Counter Ideal
17:00 Health I: Dionysus and Greek Tragedy
18:57 Health II: Zarathustra
19:41 Zarathustra I: the Eternal Recurrence
20:37 Zarathustra II: the Übermensch 
21:36 Zarathustra III: the Will to Power
22:09 Nietzsche New Metaphysics
25:23 Signoff