Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Success, Dionysian, Will to Power

The correlation of Power and Success, suggested in Beyond Good and Evil #19, expresses a betrayal of the Dionysian principle.  For, the latter entails an affirmation of all Life, even of suffering, and, hence, of Failure.  Hence, the Will to Power. at least as characterized in that passage, not only deviates from the Dionysian principle, but conflicts with it, i. e. regarding the value of Failure.  But, this discrepancy is no one-time anomaly.  Rather, it is only one manifestation of an ongoing groundless vacillation, between Growth and Dominance, as the fundamental principle of Nature, that appears throughout the later phase of Nietzsche's oeuvre.

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