This paper was written by Maudemarie Clark and published in 2000. In it, Clark seeks to clarify and improve the position on the will to power that she initially argued for 17 years earlier in her paper “Nietzsche’s Doctrines of the Will to Power” (1983), where she argued that we should view Nietzsche’s ontological doctrine of the will to power “as a self-conscious myth which is not intended to supply knowledge about the world.” In this 2000 paper, she writes that “all three speakers [at this meeting of the North American Nietzsche Society] rightly see my interpretation as motived by a desire to naturalize Nietzsche’s doctrine of the will to power, i. e., to interpret it as fully compatible with both a commitment to science and with the content of current science, hence as more defensible, and more consistent with Nietzsche’s other views, than it is under traditional interpretations” (p. 119).
Maudemarie Clark. 2000. “Nietzsche’s Doctrine of the Will to Power: Neither Ontological nor Biological.” International Studies in Philosophy 32/3: 119-135. Papers of the North American Nietzsche Society, 1998-1999.
Maudemarie, Clark. 1983. “Nietzsche’s Doctrines of the Will to Power“. Band 12 1983, edited by Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel and Werner Stegmaier, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1982, pp. 458-468. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112326541-022