Will to Power: An Attempt to Reassess All Values

Author: [German] Nietzsche / Zhang Nandong / Ling Suxin
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Nietzsche, like Marx and Freud, is one of the thinkers who had a profound impact on the intellectual life of the 20th century. He advocated the will to power as the sole absolute driving force governing the world and human behavior, and believed that life is the pursuit of the will to power. To understand the great essence of Nietzsche's philosophical thought, The Will to Power is indispensable.
This world is: a monstrous force, eternal and boundless, a solid and unchanging force that neither grows nor diminishes, nor does it consume itself—it merely changes its form. As an omnipresent force, it is the play of forces that are sometimes one and sometimes many, accumulating here and diminishing there, like a vast, self-feeding ocean, ever-changing, eternal recurrence, a of millennia—this is what I call the eternal self-creation and self-destruction of Dionysus. This is the world of the will to power—nothing else exists! You yourselves are the will to power—nothing else exists!
Nietzsche was an important German philosopher of the late 19th century and one of the main representatives of voluntarism. Influenced by certain aspects of the theory of survival of the fittest, he developed Schopenhauer's will to life into the will to power and proposed the theory of the übermensch, thereby giving voluntarism a Social Darwinist content. In philosophy, he became the precursor to Diltheye's life philosophy and Spengler's philosophy of history, and had a profound influence on important Western philosophical schools of the 20th century such as pragmatism and existentialism. This book expresses Nietzsche's theory of the will to power and the theory of the übermensch, making it one of his main representative works. The Will to Power is a representative work of Nietzsche's late philosophical thought and also his most influential philosophical work. The essence of Nietzsche's philosophy lies in the re-evaluation of all values, and his "will" is all-encompassing. Just as "Germany is above all," his brilliance and darkness are tied to this will, which is also anti-dialectical. Nietzsche advocated the will to power as the sole absolute driving force governing the world and human behavior, and believed that life is the pursuit of the will to power. To understand the great essence of Nietzsche's philosophical thought, The Will to Power is indispensable.
The Will to Power emphasizes the abundance and excess of life in nature. He believed that the world is not a negative process of all things struggling for survival, but an active process of all things striving for the expansion of life force. Nietzsche linked aesthetic phenomena to the intensity of life force. He argued that the "will to power" creates the strongest individuals, enabling them to shatter all deceptive, sickly, and life-denying aspects of society. To break with the old and establish the new, he advocated "the re-evaluation of all values."