Saturday, October 5, 2013

Dionysian, Will to Power, Miscegenation

Like Schopenhauer's Will to Live principle, Nietzsche' Dionysian principle is a representation of the Procreative drive.  So, too, is his Will to Power, with the significant variation that the drive is conceived as ascending, not as merely preserving.  Accordingly, while Schopenhauer interprets the self-consciousness of Procreation as a moment of self-neutralization, Nietzsche conceives it as one of further ascent, the result of which is Miscegenation, which initiates the next stage.  So, Miscegenation completes the arc of his philosophical development--from the Dionysian, to the Will to Power, to the deliberate harnessing of Procreation, as a means to the generation of yet more superior humans.

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