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Will to Power Nihilism?
Will to Power Nihilism?
Sophia Al-Mansoor••7 min read
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
The Will to Power
The Will to Power (German: Der Wille zur Macht) is a book of notes drawn from the literary remains (or Nachlass) of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Peter Gast (Heinrich Köselitz). The title derived from a work that Nietzsche himself had considered writing.
, §1067. The perfect nihilist — the nihilist's eye idealizes in the direction of ugliness and is unfaithful to his memories: it allows them to drop, lose their leaves; it does not guard them against the corpselike pallor that weakness pours out over what is distant and gone.
What did Nietzsche mean by will to power?
1 : the drive of the superman in the philosophy of Nietzsche to perfect and transcend the self through the possession and exercise of creative power. 2 : a conscious or unconscious desire to exercise authority over others.
Will to Power Nietzsche nihilism?
Friedrich Nietzsche and Nihilism
Among philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche is most often associated with nihilism. ... “Every belief, every considering something-true,” Nietzsche writes, “is necessarily false because there is simply no true world” (Will to Power [notes from 1883-1888]).
