Nietzsche: The Architecture of Self-Overcoming

This six-lecture course traces Friedrich Nietzsche’s path from cultural diagnosis to personal practice. Lecture 1 introduces the Death of God as the collapse of inherited moral maps and names the Comfort Trap—the habit of hiding inside herd rules rather than creating one’s own values. It presents Philosophizing with a Hammer as a method for testing beliefs and ends with a Value Audit exercise. Lecture 2 examines On the Genealogy of Morality, contrasting Master Morality with Slave Morality and defining Ressentiment as the mechanism that turns weakness into virtue. A Motive Filter helps listeners check whether their moral claims stem from love of a value or resentment of another’s success. Lecture 3 reframes the Will to Power as self-overcoming rather than domination, explains Sublimation as the conversion of raw drives into disciplined work, and introduces the Power-Dilation framework for measuring growth by resistance overcome. Lecture 4 presents Eternal Recurrence as an ethical test that asks whether one would repeat every choice forever, replacing the Waiting-Room Mindset with the Recurrence Filter. Lecture 5 follows the Three Metamorphoses in Thus Spoke Zarathustra—Camel, Lion, Child—and defines the Übermensch as the creator of new values, warning against the Lion’s Trap of endless rebellion without creation. Lecture 6 closes with Amor Fati, contrasting Stoic resignation with Nietzschean affirmation and ending with the 100% Ownership Rule: treat every event as if one willed it.