Friday, September 13, 2013

Evaluation and Comparison

In his analysis of the process of "Willing", in Beyond Good and Evil #19, Nietzsche distinguishes between an "away from which" from a "towards which".  Furthermore, he focuses on the "aim, the unconditional evaluation".  So, plainly, on this analysis, Evaluation functions, once a volition is in motion, to specify its whither.  In other words, it has no influence on the "away from which" phase, which precedes its influence on the process.  But, to specify a Whither is to choose it from among other possibilities, a selection involving an order of rank among all of them.  Accordingly, implicit in this analysis is the concept of Evaluation as essentially comparative, in which the fundamental Value-term is 'is better than', a concept that seemingly remains undeveloped elsewhere in his oeuvre.

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