The Husserlian Will to Power: ‘I Can Do Whatever I Want’

Human Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Pasetto
Keyword(s):  
Will To Power

En torno al superhombre

1998 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Paulina Rivero Weber
Keyword(s):  
Will To Power ◽  
Birth Of Tragedy

This paper analyzes some of the different characterizations of the idea of the Overman, in relation to the evolution of Nietzsche’s idea of “Dionysus”, pointing to the concept of will to Power. The use that Nietzsche does of Dionysus in his first work, The Birth of Tragedy, shows how he conceives the Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy as a unity, while in later texts, there is a fragmentation of that unity. Through these changes, we can see the different conceptions of individuality, community, and truth in Nietzsche’s work. Finally, this paper considers that behind these different conceptions lies Nietzsche’s appreciation of reason and truth.

Autonomy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Ridley
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Will To Power

This chapter is devoted to the later Nietzsche’s conception of autonomy. The claim defended here is that Nietzsche—in common with the modern philosophical tradition more generally—regards freedom and autonomy as comprising an indissoluble package, and so that his conception of autonomy inherits the expressivism of his conception of freedom. It is argued that this view allows us to make better or fuller sense of Nietzsche’s well-known remarks about the ‘sovereign individual’ in the second essay of the Genealogy; that it makes best sense when seen in the context of Nietzsche’s doctrine of ‘will to power’, to the most plausible interpretation of which it lends support; and that, properly unpacked, it allows us to understand why Nietzsche so often seems to regards artistic agency as exemplary of agency as such. If these arguments are convincing, they add weight to the claim that Nietzsche should be read as an expressivist.

Valuation and the Will to Power

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Henrik Rydenfelt
Keyword(s):  
Will To Power ◽  
The Will

Into The Void

Janus Head ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-189
Author(s):  
Clay Lewis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Eternal Return ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Complete Failure ◽  
Impossible Task ◽  
Poetic Vision

This paper looks at authoritarianism as an expression of nihilism. In spite of his rigorous critique of Platonism, I suggest that Nietzsche shares with Plato an authoritarian vision that is rooted in the cyclical experience of time. The temporality of the eternal return unveils a vista of cosmic nihilism that cannot possibly be endured. In the absence of metaphysical foundations, the vital will to power is assigned an impossible task – to create meaning from nothing. I suggest that when confronted with the horror of the ungrounded void, the self-overcoming of nihilism reverts to self-annihilation. The declaration that God is dead becomes the belief that death is God. I trace Nietzsche’s cosmic nihilism back to Plato’s myths and the poetic vision of Sophocles and Aeschylus. I argue that Nietzsche’s overcoming of nihilism is itself nihilistic. However, this does not mean that Nietzsche’s project is as a complete failure. On the contrary, I suggest that Nietzsche’s deepest insight is that the good life does not consist of the pursuit of truth, but the alleviation of suffering.

India's philosophies—whose presuppositions?

1965 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuvia Gelblum
Keyword(s):  
New Work ◽  
Will To Power

In his new work Presuppositions of India's philosophies, addressed as a textbook to the Western reader, Professor Karl H. Potter submits an interpretation of the key Indian concept of mokṣa, in which he draws an analogy with Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy of Will to Power. The latter is invoked as typifying ‘a strand of thought which glorifies spontaneity and growth, which looks ahead to man's eventual success in overcoming the bonds which make him temporarily less divine, and which sees no exercise of power of which man is not in principle capable’(p. 2).

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