Friday, August 23, 2013

Democracy, Dissonance, Will to Power

Democracy is constituted by a balance between Freedom and Equality.  Accordingly, the common conflation of it with Capitalism falsifies it, since the latter entails no concept of Equality.  Now, Freedom can be conceived as a Repulsive condition, i. e. it establishes the independence of an individual from others, while Equality can be conceived as an Attractive condition, i. e. it homogenizes a plurality of individuals.  Thus, Democracy exemplifies Dissonance, which, as has been previously discussed, combines Repulsion and Attraction.  However, just as the principle of the Will to Power cannot accommodate the concept of Dissonance, as has been previously discussed, it cannot adequately conceive Democracy, and, thus, cannot systematically evaluate it.  Thus, even if Democracy is the preeminent political expression of the cardinal phenomenon of Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche cannot recognize it as such in terms of the Will to Power.

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