The Philosophy of Arlecchino [Genshin Impact Video Essay V.4.5]

genin impacts version 4.6 drops in just a few days and I know we're all waiting with baited breath to know the truth of aro's past where she came from if she's a hural if she's a descender and everything else that could possibly constitute why she remembers Scaro but aro's complexity exceeds just her history it's no surprise that genin loves its references whether it be to Star Wars the viic texts or Shakespeare but especially orphism and especially Vagner if you're not familiar with him Richard Vagner was a 19th Century composer known for his scores such as the Ride of the Valkyries and his operas such as parsal which I covered in my video on the and the renowned the Ring of someone else adors Vagner though even more than genin does that someone was fried n now I love n almost as much as n loves Vagner so of course I was elated when I found references to n scattered throughout genin but never did I think one of his Works would actually be canonized within genin impact but it is in arino call me chyros and together let us study the worldview of our beloved Nave as it is told To Us by n in his first and second treatises of on the genealogy of morality this all started out as a few interesting connections for me and until I saw a name that caught my eye and then everything immediately fell into place that name was tarou which is the name of the man arino um deals with in her character teaser the name taru is a reference to a play by m of the same name it tells the story of a devious and fraudulent man the titular taru surprise I haven't actually read T I will soon I'm a little busy right now the the reason the name caught my eye was because n mentions it in his Second Treatise he uses quote unquote thuery here to Define actions similar to those of M's leading role I thought it was a silly little name and linked it instead to the um Italian dessert tartufo but then I watched aro's character teaser thought to myself wow didn't I just read that name in the second tretis what a coincidence made the connection did some philosophizing and theorizing and here we are a brief disclaimer I'm not going to use this video just to regurgitate nche or end up introducing shophow or something and talking about Will and rationale and not genin this is a genin video about genin but through the lens of n so we do have to understand his philosophy so I guess more essay less video that being said I am but a student of harvat so please feel free to discuss anything in the comments which I may have missed to First understand n's Second Treatise we need a little background on his first Treatise titled good and evil good and bad wherein he examines the nature of good bad and evil pretty self-explanatory his main promise here is that those in power have designed the stipulations for society not to benefit citizens but to benefit themselves therefore everything done is done for the aristocracy the Nobles the rich and every action is defined as good bad or evil according with the mentality of those in power in n's own words now in the first place it is obvious to me that the actual Genesis of the concept good is sought and fixed in the wrong place by this Theory the Judgment good does not stem from those to whom goodness is rendered rather it was the good themselves that is the noble powerful high ranking and high-minded who felt and ranked themselves and their doings as good which is to say as of the first rank in contrast to everything base low-minded common and vulgar wealth is good and poverty is bad the impoverished overwhelm the wealthy in terms of numbers yet they must suffer while the rich abide by their own schedules from this Nish introduces the ideas of Master morality and slave morality which in and of themselves are pretty self-explanatory but I want to emphasize one key thing about his slave Mar morality to those who have studied revolutionary Theory or read texts on the matter this idea will be no foreign concept and it likely won't be even if you haven't those in a state of slave morality have a sense of physicality about them oppression has driven them to revolt not just mentally but physically it is a byproduct of being displaced from one's home family country and everything they hold dear by an outside commanding Force to Nature the word that best represents slave morality is or resentment in English knowing this we can now move into the Second Treatise titled guilt bad conscience and related matters it is here that n establishes his belief that Humanity has an inherent nature of debtor and creditor one is always in a state of owing to another this is not because Humanity has been founded upon transactions from the earliest trade of tools and food to University loans and mortgage but because we are always always responsible n Dub's responsibility a privilege because we as humans are capable of lasting achievements on both the grandest and most minute of scales but regardless we have adopted responsibility not as a privilege but as an everyday pledge perhaps n says it best when he states that the proud knowledge of the extraordinary privilege of responsibility the consciousness of this rare Freedom this power over oneself and Fate has sunk into his lowest depth and has become Instinct the dominant Instinct what will he call it this dominant Instinct assuming that he feels the need to have a word for it but there is no doubt this Sovereign human being calls it his conscience with quote unquote man designating himself as the being who measures values who values and measures we have entered into a state of not just contractual law but also Relentless guilt and personal obligation if we have acted unjustly we must write it if we owe money we must repay it if we have sinned we must atone all of this feeds into the notion NE establishes that Humanity feeds off of Cruelty and Punishment even if such punishment is as it has evolved to be imaginative and inward how do we grapple with this though well so that concealed undiscovered unwitnessed suffering could be banished from the world and honestly negated one was almost compelled back then to invent gods and intermediate beings of all Heights and depths in short something that also roams in secret that also sees in the dark and that does not easily let an interesting painful spectacle Escape it this introduces the idea of deities invented as explanations of sin yet so too do we turn to deities to absolve ourselves of sin because in many popular faiths we are promised something glorious upon death if we repent for our our cruelties debtor and creditor God and man what nature proposes though instead is that we rid ourselves of this contractual relationship and instead operate for man for we have grown ashamed of ourselves due to our actions If instead of binding ourselves to a contractual relationship we operate for our own needs and desires then we shall transgress such bonds and operate not for a deity or higher power but for ourselves and what is present sound familiar I should hope so the story of the House of the Hearth is Galileo's dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems but neifi on the one hand we have kusaba the previous Nave and on the other we have arino her successor and critic kusaba founded her Philosophy for the house of the Hearth on succession and greed the story she reads to the children at the beginning of aro's Animation is not meant to induce any idea of equality but rather power and Corruption defeating your competitors to ascend the throne is a wonderful opportunity according to kusaba she does not inform any of the eager ears at her disposal of the cruelty and Devastation which will bloom in one's soul and the isolation which will emerge as a result crusa represents Master morality she crafts the rules according to her standards so that she reaps the rewards not the children she inspires action for individual personal gain there is no unanimous heart that unites the house Under One Roof she is a creditor and though she adopts are inescapably in her debt not just for their lives but for the success that she'll be awarded to them should they rise to her position arino alternatively as I'm sure you can already expect represents slave morality and the notion of kantu she despises kusaba and what she represents her upset and rage after cl's death can no longer repress the physicality of violence which those of a slave morality possess arino stands unwavering in the face of Oppression her will is not just for herself but for every other child of the House of the Hearth past present and future under her wing all of her children have equal opportunity there is no Cornucopia awaiting them upon their Ascent to the status of father and there is no pressure to attain such a status either with such an alignment of morals everyone oper Ates for themselves even though they work under father's orders because there is no obvious reason to disavow her Reign success is not flaunted as something for an individual to attain but for everyone to attain and we see this most clearly in the version 4.6 trailer when all Linny Lynette and F want is to be a family with father always at the helm nothing more nothing less but here's the rub as I'm sure you're all eager to point out the fact that arino 2 in a fashion not too dissimilar from kusaba forces her children to fight for the title of Father however she does not ask them to fight each other but rather herself here we must return to the idea of debtor and creditor once again because it is arino and no other member of the House who is under a debt that debt is her blood debt that which she shall repay upon her defeat at the hands of in her idealization Linny Linny does not owe anyone anything he operates for arino yes but because she is his family as are lyette F and the other children never does he operate for himself we see this most evidently when Kaz takes Linette during the fund AR Conquest which causes Linny to erupt because more than anything he wants his family to be safe in Linny it becomes clear that even though arino does make the rules as the head of the house she inspires in all her children a stable sense of unity and empowerment they can achieve all that they wish save those they wish to save and this is instilled in them not solely by Instinct but because this is what their father strives to do there is no greed no sense of competition or entitlement this is as nature proposes man for man's sake oh yes about the Serita I knew you were going to ask the Serita is an interesting case because it could certainly be said that as a fatou Harbinger AR Ino does not in truth work for Humanity but for a deity and in that case goes against n's philosophy however such is not the case the Serita operates for her own Ambitions and those Ambitions are not for the Heavenly principles but for the world itself if tavat is the source of all sin she shall root it out if sin instead is sourced by the heavens she shall defy even the primordial one therefore when it comes to the situation of snah the reigning deity must not be thought of as the sitaa but rather the Heavenly principles for the cryo archon does not ask her people to worship only to act it is my hope that we shall be given a glimpse further into the shadowed secrecy of the Sarita in arino story quest for I find her Nuance to be truly fascinating as always thank you so much for listening and you can call me chyros

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Published: Sun Apr 21 2024