So, N asks us why are so many of the great philosophers, chas, they don't have, they don't have wives? Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Rousseau, I mean Socrates had a wife, but Socrates literally chose the most annoying woman he could find to

test his resolve, right? So, so that, that doesn't really count. So, that's the question: why do philosophers not get married? I think N has a very interesting answer here. It's because most people get married to have progeny, to have kids, right, to have their name live on. But the

philosopher already has a channel for his name to live on, and it's through his books. So, again, it's not like the philosopher is more enlightened, it's not like the philosopher no longer cares about his name living on after his own death. It's that he's found a better

will-to-power route to exercise that same desire. I quote, "To unchain Poverty, humility, Chastity. Look at the lives of all great, fruitful, inventive Spirits close up, one will always find all three to a certain degree, certainly not, as goes without saying, as if these were their virtues,

but rather because their supreme Lord, philosophy, demands it of them, demands prudently and relentlessly. He has a mind for only philosophy and gathers everything, time, energy, love interest, only for this, saves it only for this." N's point is this: poverty, chastity,

humility, the, the philosopher does not choose these because he's virtuous, he chooses these because these are the conditions that allow him to do his great work. So, let's take poverty for example. The philosopher's orientation is not to make money, he's not focused on

making money even if you offered him possessions, he's not going to want them. Why? Because having possessions comes with obligations, it comes with demands. So he didn't choose to be poor because it's virtuous, he chose to be poor because that's not his focus in

life, that's not where he directs his will to power. Now obviously, we want to push back against N here and say, but isn't having truth seeking rather than moneymaking as your primary goal, isn't that virtuous? And he's just going to say

there's a lot of issues with truth seeking as your primary goal. We're going to talk about that very soon, but even if it were more virtuous to live a truth seeking life than a money seeking life, that's not why the philosopher chose it.

The philosopher chose it because his dispositions, his circumstances, his resources better suited him to exercise will to power in the domain of Truth. So I've had a lot of personal experience here where I've been up close and personal with the top intellectuals as well as the top capitalists in the world.

And they hate each other, right? The capitalists think the intellectuals are poisoning the well of ideas, and the intellectuals think the capitalists are hoarding all the resources and they see a vast chasm of difference between each other. But when you get up close and

personal, especially when you look at the elite of both, the similarity, I think, and I think N is right here, is greater than the difference. They all have that maniacal focus, they all have that unrelenting drive to succeed, to win out. They all have a super strong will to power and I

suspect that Nietzsche is right that the only thing that made them go one way or the other is not because I don't know capitalism can help everyone or because truth seeking is the most virtuous life, it's because their dispositions, their circumstance, their relationships, their

resources better predispose them to exercise their Will To Power in one domain rather than the other. Okay, and the same story goes with humility. Philosophers are not more humble because they're moderate, it's the exact opposite: their immoderate pursuit of the truth is why they are humble

because they don't want to get bothered by people. Okay, so that's why they don't advertise themselves, that's why they don't play their name on things. So the aesthetic ideal of the philosopher is an expression of the will to power because it's by rejecting the usual demands of

life, money, sex, name, that the philosopher can fully devote himself to Truth at all costs. That's what his aesthetic ideal is: truth at all cost to life. So will to power is a central idea in Nietzsche. Let me read to you how Nietzsche describes it in his own

words: "Every animal instinctively strives for an Optimum of favorable conditions under which it can vent its power completely and attain its maximum in the feeling of power." The interpretation of the world of power, there's many that makes the most sense to me is that more often than not, even

if we're not aware of it, we do most things out of a desire to increase our feeling of power. So it's not a blanket metaphysical thesis, it's not even a blanket psychological thesis that everything is Will To Power, it's simply

the much more reduced, but still interesting, point that more than meets the eye is motivated out of power. Thanks for watching this clip. My name is Jonathan B. and I'm creating accessible lectures and interviews on the great books. If you want to watch the full lecture where this clip came from, 

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Nietzsche: Why Great Thinkers Don't Have Wives

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철학자는 왜 결혼하지 않는가? 니체적 관점: 니체의 관점

칸트, 쇼펜하우어, 키에르케고르, 루소 등 많은 위대한 철학자들이 왜 미혼으로 남았는지에 대한 질문이 제기됩니다.

일반적인 결혼 동기(자식)와 달리 철학자는 자신의 작업을 통해 불멸을 성취한다는 답이 제시되었습니다.

이것은 깨달음에 관한 것이 아니라 권력에 대한 의지를 실현하는 다른 길입니다.

니체의 견해: 가난, 겸손, 순결은 미덕이 아니라 철학적 작업을 위한 필수 요소입니다.

가난은 미덕을 위해 선택된 것이 아니라 소유가 철학적 추구에 방해가 되는 의무를 가져다주기 때문입니다.

연사는 진리 추구가 미덕이라는 반론에 대해 언급하지만 니체는 이에 동의하지 않을 것이라고 언급합니다.

철학자의 선택은 그들이 처한 상황과 권력에 대한 의지를 가장 잘 발휘할 수 있는 방법에 따라 결정됩니다.

지식인과 자본가를 비교한 일화를 보면 광적인 집중력과 권력에 대한 강한 의지를 공유한다는 점을 알 수 있습니다.

차이점은 그들의 성향과 환경이 권력에 대한 의지를 (진리 또는 부를 향해) 어떻게 이끌고 있는지에 있습니다.

철학자의 겸손은 진리를 추구하는 겸손함에서 비롯되며, 이는 산만함을 피하는 데서 비롯됩니다.

그들의 미적 이상은 진리에 전적으로 헌신해야 한다는 삶의 일반적인 요구를 거부하는 것입니다.

니체의 권력 의지에 대한 정의는 권력을 충분히 발휘할 수 있는 최적의 조건을 위해 노력하는 것입니다.

연사는 권력에 대한 의지가 모든 행동에 대한 보편적인 설명은 아니지만 중요한 동기 부여가 된다는 점을 분명히 합니다.

연사는 많은 행동이 자신의 권력감을 높이고자 하는 욕망에 의해 동기 부여된다고 결론지었습니다.

연사는 자신의 강연과 훌륭한 책에 대한 인터뷰를 홍보하여 시청자가 전체 강연을 시청하고 이메일 목록에 가입하도록 유도합니다.