Monday, October 2, 2017

Dionysian, Will to Power, Political Philosophy

Nietzsche remains a Dionysian throughout his oeuvre, from which it can be inferred that the collective experience that he describes at the beginning of Birth of Tragedy is what, in traditional terms, he conceives to be the Highest Good for a person.  Thus, according to his doctrine of Will to Power, the experience is one of maximum Empowerment.  Accordingly, though it is rarely explicitly stated in his works, implicit in all of them is the concept of strength in numbers, i. e. numbers of a coherent collectivity, not in a dissolute rabble.  Conversely, a society is only as strong as its weakest member, from which it follows that a fundamental responsibility of a Ruler is the maximum empowerment of the Ruled.

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