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Several times in my life I’ve come to the conclusion that many of my interests are oriented around a central concept: that of controlling things in my environment.
Nietzsche called this The Will To Power, and I’ve always rather liked the name. In fact that’% ... Continue reading »
Nietzsche called this The Will To Power, and I’ve always rather liked the name. In fact that’% ... Continue reading »
2 years ago
It's when these ideas are linked together that some very unfortunate consequences get justified as extensions of Nietzschean philosophy (or get associated with the actual historical philosopher).
The WTP is one of those ideas. Surely N. mentioned this idea in many spots, but thanks to his proto-Nazi redactrice of a sister some of the dots got connected in ways that I don't believe Fred would have intended. Surely National Socialism would have been something he would have hated owing to the cult of personality, the religious overtones, etc. This was not a man who could be bridled ( except in a certain famous photo of he Paul Ree, and "Lou" (Louisa) Salomé).
I think that the real root of N. ideology that underlines the WTP is this: responsibility. As the legacy states of imperial Europe prepared to march off to their undoing and the commercial class helped quicken the nation state Nietzsche's message was one of hope and promise: You can live your own life, and in exchange for this absolute freedom sans monach, class, rank, etc, comes absolute responsibility.
I like to think that the will to power is a will to responsibility, or a will to ruthlessness (i.e. fastidiousness, focus, unrelentingness).