How Nietzsche's Will to Power Became Real (Evolution of an Idea) #shorts

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[omegacardboard]

Best thing about the will to power is that you can’t argue against it because then you’re just trying to have power over the will to power thus you have the will to power

[KaliFissure]

One could argue that gravity is a will to power. The inevitable concentration/gathering of mass and thus energy.

[dillanjohnson]

I have had the same thought, it is actually very fun to play around with, the applicability of the concept is staggering.

[proudindian]

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[BlakeMerriam]

Thank you so much for these videos. More please!

[satnamo]

Life wants to build itself up into the height with pillars and steps because life itself is wille zur macht.

[arnavpandey]

This channel is a gold mine. Although i did not understand a thing in this video😅

[iansmith]

Absolutely fascinating. A shame he wasn’t able to develop this more.

[sciagurrato]

Nietzsche’s assertion says more about himself than the world. And, of course as with all blunt instruments, it attracts a lot of attention from the simple minded.

[suhailpv]

IMHO Nietzsche is more of an artist than a When it comes to philosophy, I don't think I would ever deviate from schopenhauer

[ideologybot]

I'm fairly sure he was right about this. The idea of supervenience in philosophy of science has been asking why the different levels of development happen in the natural world at all: gravity and magnetism giving way to the subatomic and atomic particles that make up chemistry, the chemical giving way to the biological, the biological giving way to the social and abstract reasoning. Calling it "power" is controversial in some people's minds, but there is a pattern of higher organization, some emergent property that does not clearly derive from more basic principles of behavior, bringing regularity and complexity. Nietzsche's amor fati thought experiment derives from the idea that the universe is cyclically organizing itself then disordering itself, which can be integrated into this easily.

An interesting question: does this mean that individuals have an internal drive to power that's impossible to control, or that society is a super-organism that can bring order to individuals so long as it expands and gives them room to breathe and build new abstractions? In the latter case, hierarchy becomes very relevant for social identity and purpose.

[sebastienh]

That’s THE problem with philosophers - people who do not care about science or psychology, only about concepts and their abstract combinations. They can invent things like a metaphysical “will to power” and pretend it is as real as gravity or sex drive - and nobody objects. Freud did the same with “death drive”… and religions with “soul”.

[ToastyChud]

He also turned his notes for will to power into a shopping list. He abandoned the idea and his sister developed it through scraped notes. Shill

[弘睿甫]

isn't this just Aristotelian metaphysics with extra steps? that things are "striving" towards something. It's self-referencing. saying that something did something because it wants to do it explains nothing at all. Or did I misunderstood something here?

[joedavis]

.. I'll put my money on health.. the hmong, a hill tribe of the Golden Triangle, say they want three things.. health, happiness, and Sanity..

[EyalAvrahamov]

I don't understand why it has to be metaphysical? why not a physical law like gravity or like evolution?

[jasa]

Then there was nothing wrong with Nazis understanding of Nietzsche

[robertpaterson]

I don't think this is true. The will to power exists in humans because of our perception of time. We do not have a will to power over the environment or over other humans but over the future. Or if you want to look at it a different way, a will to power over death (which obviously can only occur in the future). We acquire power to decrease the likelihood of death. As humans live in communities we rely on others to avoid death. A tribe or community will protect those that are of value to the tribe. So the will to power also extends to our value in the community as the greater value we have in the eyes of others, the more likely we are to be protected by them which decreases our likelihood of death. So recognition in the eyes of others grants one power, which is why humans pursue achievement (imo) not because of any denial of death as proposed by Ernest Becker.

[ZYX]

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