Will to Power (Attempt to Re-evaluate All Values)

Author: [German] Nietzsche, translated by 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 great influence on the spiritual 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 a must-read. This world is: a monster of force, without beginning or end, a solid and fixed force that does not grow or shrink, does not consume itself but only changes its form—as the omnipresent force 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 also 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 of Diltheye's life philosophy and Spengler's philosophy of history, and had a great 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 is the re-evaluation of all values, and his "will" is overwhelming. Just as "Germany is above all," his brilliance and darkness are tied to this will, and this will is 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 a must-read.
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 seeking to expand their vitality. Nietzsche linked aesthetic phenomena to the intensity of life force. He believed that the "will to power" creates the strongest individuals, enabling them to shatter all deceptive, sick, and life-denying aspects of society. To break with the old and establish the new, he advocated "re-evaluating all values."