Category: The Will to Power

Nietzsche’s Naturalism: Philosophy and the Life Sciences in the Nineteenth Century

February 24, 2025March 1, 2025 Admin No Comments

This book was written by Christian Emden and published in 2014. Among many other things, it provides the most comprehensive and detailed investigation of the work of the scientists that influenced Nietzsche’s development of the concept of the will to power. He argues that the biological version of that concept plays a fundamental role in…

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Nietzsche’s New Darwinism

February 24, 2025February 26, 2025 Admin No Comments

This book was written by John Richardson and published in 2004. It illustrates the various ways in which Nietzsche was influenced by Darwin. Additionally, it focuses on describing Nietzsche’s concept of the will to power as a biological principle, rather than an ontological principle, notwithstanding his focus on this ontological version of the principle in…

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Nietzsche’s System

February 24, 2025February 28, 2025 Admin No Comments

This book was written by John Richardson and published in 1996. It provides one of the most comprehensive and detailed discussions of the ontological version of Nietzsche’s concept of the will to power. Most philosophers in the secondary literature on Nietzsche find this version of the will to power empirically implausible, and they instead tend…

On the Genealogy of Morality

February 10, 2025March 5, 2025 Admin No Comments

This book was written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published in 1887. In it Nietzsche develops a typology of moral values that describes whether they foster the growth and flourishing of life, or they undermine its growth and are a sign of the degeneration of life (GM Preface, 3, 6). In Beyond Good and Evil, published…

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Beyond Good and Evil

January 31, 2025March 5, 2025 Admin No Comments

This book was written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published in 1886. Among many other things, it contains Nietzsche’s famous argument for his concept of the will to power (aphorism 36), his claim that living things seek to discharge their strength rather than just survive (13), his description of life growing “not out of any morality…