Individual, Will, Evolution

For Schopenhauer, any Individual Human is subordinated to the Universal Will to Live.  For Nietzsche, initially, this subordination is dramatized as ego-shattering Tragedy.  However, he eventually replaces the Will to Live with Will to Power, a principle of Self-Overcoming, instantiated by the transitions from Ape to Human, and Human to Super-Human.  In other words, one scope of Will to Power is the Species.  Furthermore, the moment of ego-crushing becomes, instead, an opportunity for affirmation, by the individual Human, of the superior power, thereby harnessing it, and transforming the experience into one of Self-Overcoming empowerment.  So, in Ecological terms, Schopenhauer's concept of the Individual-Will relation is that of an Adaptation, by an individual Organism, to an Environment, whereas Nietzsche's is that of an individual Organism participating in the Adaptation, by a Species, of an Environment, for Evolutionary purposes.