Will to Power and Individualism

Implicit in The Gay Science #1 is the concept of Christian Morality as designed to counter individual belligerence via the fictional promise of otherworldly rewards for non-belligerent behavior, e. g. meekness, pity, etc.  Now, part of the doctrine is that what is offered is a salvation of the individual from themselves.  Thus, a fundamental novelty of the passage is Nietzsche's thesis that that detail is also part of the fiction.  For, he analyzes the immediate target of the threat to be not the Individual, but the Species torn by internal antagonism.  Thus, he is also diverging from Hobbes and his successors, by implicitly conceiving Leviathian to be primarily at the service of not the members of a society, but of the society as a whole.  But, because, beyond the opening sections of Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche devotes little attention to the Collectivism entailed in the Dionysian principle, he does not apply Will to Power to plural agency, thereby leaving it susceptible to being interpreted as entailing, contrary to The Gay Science #1, Political Individualism.