Friday, May 3, 2013

Dionysian, Will to Power, Reproduction

In #9 of Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche proposes that Philosophy "creates the world in its own image", and is "the most spiritual will to power".  Now, aside from formulating his innovative concept of Philosophy, the passage also illuminates his concept of Will to Power.  First, explicitly, it is a creative process, and second, implicitly, its Creativity is a process of self-reproduction, as "in its own image" indicates.  Thus, Will to Power constitutes a variation of Schopenhauer's Will to Live principle, as well of Nietzsche's own Dionysian principle, of which it can be conceived as a Spinozistic Mode, as has been previously discussed.

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