Sunday, August 25, 2013

Will to Power, Expulsion, Appropriation

Examples of Appropriation are domination, exploitation, and suppression.  Examples of Expulsion are discharge and bestowal.  Now, processes from both groups are, at one point or another, implicated by Nietzsche in the manifestation of the Will to Power.  However, because he neither distinguishes Appropriation from Expulsion, nor methodically develops the Will to Power, he does not systematize those varying expressions of the principle.  He, thus, misses, for example, that any act of domination is preceded by a process of the discharge of strength, which implies that in the structure of the Will to Power qua process, Expulsion is more fundamental than Appropriation, i. e. the latter presupposes the former.  Thus, likewise, Bestowal is independent of any appropriative process.  Accordingly, Empowerment is a more fundamental expression of the Will to Power, as conceived by Nietzsche, than is Overpowering.

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