Thursday, June 8, 2017

Will to Power and Work of Potential Energy

In Physics, Power is defined as Work/Time, with Work defined as Force x Distance.  So, Nietzche's concept of Power is closer to that of Work than to that of Power.  Furthermore, the Force required to do the Work is, for Nietzsche, accumulated, ready to be discharged.  Now, in Physics, strength ready to be discharged is Potential Energy, i. e. a concept of stored Energy that entails its possible release.  So, Will to Power is correlates to the Physi ist concatenation Work of Potential Energy.  The value of this formulation is that is offers an analysis of Nietzsche's concept without the connotations of violence that tend to obscure its essential structure.

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