Pls a question for you intelligent folk out there

[historian]

does anyone understand the will of power by nietzche?? Does it mean overcoming all resistance, demolishing morals and bad conscience, acts of thinking put in place by priests who have given a name to choice - it is becomes should i for now there is choice between good and evil as defined by the priests. Does this make sense to anyone. Please?

[Dogmudgeon]

1. I'll try

Nietzche called it "the Will to Power". It is not really easily explained, but it's a fairly simple idea.

It's superficially similar to the Republican ideology of "Personal Responsibility" except that it assumes that the individual is a creative being, not simply an obligated, accountable, punishable wretch. The Will to Power keeps people disobedient to these tyrants. We resist by becoming creators, rather than servants.

This struggle creates/is part of a Hegelian dialectic, but Nietzche wasn't too concerned with dialecticism. The stuggle will always be lost, whether to tyrants, to weakness, or universally to death. Making the struggle was what was important to Nietzche.

If you can't win, and you can't break even, then why not do what you want, and kick God and the Kaiser in the balls?

The priests are just impedimentia, the same as gravity, imposed morality, infectious illness, and a 70-year life span. The individual asserts his Will to Power to overcome these. He always aspires, always tries, risks everything, and always fails. But still, it was the audacity that he attempted it at all that was the important thing.

I probably explained that so badly that it made Nietzche's corpse weep bitter tears. But I hope at least it gives you a start.

--bkl

[historian]

2. well done

thank you