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In "On the Genealogy of Morals" Nietzsche argues that ressentiment is the root cause of Slave Morality and the Ascetic Ideal. Max Scheler developed Nietzsche's work further in his 1915 work "Ressentiment" where he argued that Christianity is not inherently ressentimentful but bourgeois middle-class capitalism is.
As we will see in this episode, ressentiment is the underlying emotional background of modern times — from the French and American Revolutions to the Storming of the Capitol Building and the BLM marches.
Ressentiment has the power to make a better world but in the process destroys our capacity to enjoy it.
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📚 Further Reading:
- Meltzer BN and Musolf GR (2002) Resentment and Ressentiment. Sociological Inquiry 72(2): 240–255.
- Nietzsche FW (2000) _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_. translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Modern Library.
- Scheler M (1915) Ressentiment.
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⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:18 Resentment and Ressentiment
4:42 Nietzschean Ressentiment
10:48 Revolutionary Ressentiment
13:06 Ressentiment in the 21st Cen
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The painting in the thumbnail is of a fallen Lucifer. He is a perfect example of the concept, perfect.
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This topic needs much more attention than it gets and your video is a great contribution to understanding it. Currently I have plans to explore the psychological origins of ressentiment.
Thanks for making this!
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As ever, excellent content. Many thanks! Don't take this as a discouragement, its a small technical detail... either my old lugs are failing due to too many impact injuries or perhaps you recorded this on a differnt mic, possibly inside a carboard box. That aside, its all good, and it applies in super-duper relevant ways... Psalm 118 is usually recited as a prophecy about Jesus, the whole ''stone the builders rejected became the cornerstone'' routine. What is largely overlooked is Psalm 118's ''Holy'' repetition of enjoying God's help in 'cutting down my enemies'. As you say, the American Christians and Islamists seem to excell in revenge fanstasies about brining on the apocalypse with divine judgement raining down... on everyone they personally dislike. What remains of the 'Left wing' are just as zealous, rushing to acuse and de-platform...anyone. It is an epidemic. What happened to the revolutionary potentials of joy, sex, music, art, creativity?
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Great video here. I am new to this channel.
There is a x-factor in this ressentiment quicksand. The esoteric and mystical teachings of the perennial philosophy and depth psychology would see it as a guardian of the threshold. A state of mind and emotion that either petrifies the afflicted soul or spurs it to deeply humble oneself before the truth of felt internal shame, incapability to rise above the circumsyances and the persistent sense of loss of agency. This can be a true fire to be deeply purified and healed by going through it.
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Ws laid off yesterday, effectively. Was told that all remote positions will be required to be in office at least 4 days a week Feb 5th and then full time in office by June 2024. This was after I was told by multiple people, including my manager, over and over again during the hiring process that this will be a full time remote position. I am not moving to the metro where the office is, and I'm not commuting the 3-4 hours a day, five days a week. So, they get their layoffs without actually laying anyone off, and I get to have to find a new job in this horrid economy. Full of resentment and bitterness towards not only this joke of a career I find myself in, by multiple circumstances out of my control throughout my life, but also the company for doing exactly what companies always do, lying.
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One of my favourite Nietzschean concepts. Thank you for doing a video on it!
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Great video! The philosophers mentioned in this video see ressentiment as a positive force that can motivate change. The way i learned the concept and always encountered in daily life and various sources is that the person or groups experiencing ressentiment are unjustly feeling that way and their ressentiment is unwarranted. Ressentiment is a flaw. A tragi-commical one too; expressions of ressentiment are usually filled with frustration and anger and the whole feeling of ressentiment is awful. Makes the ressentimentee an object of mockery. :body-blue-raised-arms::thanksdoc::goodvibes:
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Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. A great take. I remember feeling Nietzsche’s definition of resentiment was quite niche, focussing so squarely on his image of Christianity. Your exploration and broadening is wonderful. Articulating what I only felt as a slight uncertainty.
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Wonderful video. As an AA member we learn that resentment is the biggest killer of an alcoholics. Apparently Nietzsche agrees.
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I feel like there was a good opportunity to link Nietzsche's and Dostoyevsky's remarkable similarity of insight into the main concept of the video, which didn't really get explored.
From what i have read, Nietzsche first read Dostoyevsky in a french bookshop, in 1887, and the book he did it with was a botched version of "Notes from the Underground" which had the title "L'espirit Souterrain". Although the french title translates exactly to the original title, for some reason the version Nietzsche read contained another Dostoyevsky's work named "The Landlady" along with "Notes from the Underground" under a single, unified title.
1887 is the same year in which Nietzsche wrote "On the Genealogy of Morals", and in this book the word "resentiment" is used untranslated to german 4 times by Nietzsche. "Resentiment" is a french term and Nietzsche just so happened to read the french version of a book which uses this exact word a multitude of times, that being "L'espirit Souterrain".
After letting the terminological similarities aside, the true parallel thinking of the two writers becomes evident. The inner torment, indecisiveness, altering of perspective and dissonance of the mouse in Dostoyevsky and the "burrowing through the intestines of the past and present in a search for obscure mysteries, wherein they are at liberty [...] to get drunk on the venom of their own malice " and "to bleed from scars which have long been healed" of the modern man in Nietzsche, along with the insight from both men that there is a certain pleasure being enjoyed during the act of "resentiment", speaks volumes about their similarity of thought and the psychological depths to which both thinkers were capable of diving.
In earlier works, Nietzsche hinted at this concept, but the full fleshing out of it was probably in part to Dostoyevsky's influence.
They arrived at a similar concept with no knowing of one another, and no concurrent exposure to each others ideas, a feat i find truly legendary.
As always, great video. I hope the channel continues in this level.
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I was just thinking about ressentiment today, really questioning my grasp of the concept. Your timing is impeccible, thank you for the education.
Also I appreciate the opening image of Cronos Devouring His Children, I have a poster of the painting in my basement.
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Scary. And since this is an emotion, it's difficult to reverse.
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Just watched your video, James, and it's a powerful insight.
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The Bible is full of examples of this sentiment which can be characterized as a rebellion against God. Like Cain killing his brother Abel out of envy and resentment and being condemned to a lifetime of toil. Also Ecclesiastes 4:
"Again I saw all the oppressions that take place under the sun: the tears of the victims with none to comfort them!
From the hand of their oppressors comes violence, and there is none to comfort them!
And those now dead, I declared more fortunate in death than are the living to be still alive.
And better off than both is the yet unborn, who has not seen the wicked work that is done under the sun.
**Then I saw that all toil and skillful work is the rivalry of one person with another.**
This also is vanity and a chase after wind.
“Fools fold their arms
and consume their own flesh”—
Better is one handful with tranquility
than two with toil and a chase after wind!"
Of course consumerism multiplies this effect.
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Thank you. Quality content as usual!
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After the third listen, just once a week, I managed a clearer understanding, totally fascinating and uber interesting, thanks heaps.
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uważaj by resentyment nie stał się tworzeniem moralności niewolnika (sprawiedliwość, zadośćuczynienie po śmierci) lub bycie wybranym (lepiej jest być barankiem dla otoczenia niż orłem, drapieżcą dla otoczenia, też rezygnacja z własnej agendy)
uważaj by resentyment nie trzymał Cię w stagnacji, pasywności, niemocy, że nie możesz nic zmienić w swoim otoczeniu
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Great explanation. Really helpful for me. Thanks
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The fact that the proud boy is drinking a whiteclaw gives me hope
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@Doctor.T.46
5 months ago
I encountered ressentiment when studying Nietzsche as past of my MA in Philosophy. Sometimes I wish we, as a society, had listened more to Nietzsche.
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