Friday, December 23, 2016

Will to Power and Origin of a Superhuman Species

The outcome of a Self-Overcoming of the Human species qua Species, implicit in the Will to Power, but unexplored by him, is currently virtually unimaginable.  Perhaps it might originate a Superhuman species that has added a capacity for extraterrestrial survival.  But, if so, the impetus is not the latter, but the principle of Self-Overcoming, with Survival in such a new habitat a pre-condition of further developments. In other words, even if the Will to Power coincides with Darwinian Evolution in some respects, they differ in one crucial one--while Darwinism vacillates between Evolution and Survival as its primary principle, for Nietzsche, the Will to Power is unequivocally prior to any Will to Live.

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