Friedrich Nietzsche has been called many things: a deep immoralist, an alarm bell for a nihilistic world, and a syphilitic madman. But today I want to talk about his philosophy of happiness, and why I think we can all learn a lot from his warnings about how a person can become truly miserable, wasting their potential in a lazy nihilism, and losing everything that makes them unique and peculiar in the process. We will begin with The Last Man and then explore through The Joyous Science, to see what insights it has in store for us all.

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00:00 The Philosopher of Joy
01:17 Pursuing Comfort
04:28 The Fear of Power
08:25 Hell is Other People
12:16 Excesses in Seriousness
15:13 Amor Fati

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