Drives

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-33
Author(s):  
Mattia Riccardi
Keyword(s):  
Will To Power ◽  
Discharge Model

This chapter is concerned with Nietzsche’s mature notion of drives. After some preliminary considerations on Nietzsche’s usage of the term ‘drive’, it considers the conception of drives held by Schopenhauer and by Georg Schneider, whose work is the most important scientific source on which Nietzsche relies to elaborate his psychology of drives. It then moves on to Nietzsche’s own views about drives, investigating how such views emerge by the time he was working on Daybreak and how he later attempts to refine them by engaging with Schneider’s work in 1883. This refinement results in the notion of drives that Nietzsche employs more or less consistently in his mature works: drives are behavioural dispositions; they are genuinely psychological/mental (evaluative); and due to their urging nature Nietzsche conceives of them according to a proto-Freudian discharge model. The chapter also addresses the relation Nietzsche sometimes attempts to draw between the notion of ‘drive’ and that of ‘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.

scholarly journals Improving continuity of patient care across sectors: study protocol of the process evaluation of a quasi-experimental multi-centre study regarding an admission and discharge model in Germany (VESPEERA)

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. e031245
Author(s):  
Johanna Forstner ◽  
Aline Kunz ◽  
Cornelia Straßner ◽  
Lorenz Uhlmann ◽  
Stephanie Kuemmel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Process Evaluation ◽  
Study Protocol ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Total N ◽  
Outcomes Evaluation ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Discharge Model ◽  
General Practices

IntroductionHospital stays are critical events as they often disrupt continuity of care. This process evaluation aims to describe and explore the implementation of the VESPEERA programme (Improving continuity of patient care across sectors: An admission and discharge model in general practices and hospitals, Versorgungskontinuitaet sichern: Patientenorientiertes Einweisungs- und Entlassmanagement in Hausarztpraxen und Krankenhauesern). The evaluation concerns the intervention fidelity, reach in targeted populations, perceived effects, working mechanisms, feasibility, determinants for implementation, including contextual factors, and associations with the outcomes evaluation. The aim of the VESPEERA programme is the development, implementation and evaluation of a structured admission and discharge programme in general practices and hospitals.Methods and analysisThe process evaluation is linked to the VESPEERA outcomes evaluation, which has a quasi-experimental multi-centre design with four study arms and is conducted in hospitals and general practices in Germany. The VESPEERA programme comprises several components: an assessment before admission, an admission letter, a telephonic discharge conversation between hospital and general practice before discharge, discharge information for patients, structured planning of follow-up care after discharge in the general practice and a telephone monitoring for patients with a risk of rehospitalisation. The process evaluation has a mixed-methods design, incorporating interviews (patients, both care providers who do and do not participate in the VESPEERA programme, total n=75), questionnaires (patients and care providers who participate in the VESPEERA programme, total n=475), implementation plans of hospitals, data documented in general practices, claims-based data and hospital process data. Data analysis is descriptive and explorative. Qualitative data will be transcribed and analysed using framework analysis based on the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. Associations between the outcomes of the program and measures in the process evaluation will be explored in regression models.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval has been obtained by the ethics committee of the Medical Faculty Heidelberg prior to the start of the study (S-352/2018). Results will be disseminated through a final report to the funding agency, articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.Trial registration numberhttp://www.drks.de/DRKS00015183.Trial statusThe study protocol on hand is the protocol V.1.1 from 18 June 2018. Recruitment for interviews started on 3 September 2018 and will approximately be completed by the end of May 2019.

scholarly journals Self-Discharge Model of a Nickel-Hydrogen Cell

2000 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. 902 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Wu ◽  
R. E. White
Keyword(s):  
Discharge Model

scholarly journals Generalized Heat Flow Model of a Forced Air Electric Thermal Storage Heater Core

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas T. Janssen ◽  
Rorik A. Peterson ◽  
Richard W. Wies
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Thermal Storage ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Heater Core ◽  
Discharge Model ◽  
Load Leveling ◽  
Forced Air ◽  
Three Dimensional Finite Element

Electric thermal storage (ETS) devices can be used for grid demand load-leveling and off-peak domestic space heating (DSH). A high-resolution three-dimensional finite element model of a forced air ETS heater core is developed and employed to create a general charge/discharge model. The effects of thermal gradients, air flow characteristics, material properties, and core geometry are simulated. A simplified general stove discharge model with a single time constant is presented based on the results of the numerical simulations. This simplified model may be used to stimulate economic/performance case studies for cold climate communities interested in distributed thermal energy storage.

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.

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