Friedrich Nietzsche's On The Feeling Of Power
In 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche was born in a small village in present day Germany. Nevertheless, he would grow up to become one of the most recognized philosophers. One of his revolutionary ideas spoke of the feeling of power. It was referred to as “On the Doctrine of the Feeling of Power”. I agree with Nietzsche’s ideas on power written about in “On the Doctrine of the Feeling of Power”.
I agree with Nietzsche’s philosophy on power: to benefit or to hurt others is a way to exercises one’s power. I believe power can corrupt the mind; it corrupts the allowance of the urge to hold power to consume your morals. The author of “The House of the Scorpion” writes, “‘Well, Matt. Do you have any personal shortcomings you’d like to share?’ ‘No,’ said …show more content…
Donald Trump was born into a family with great wealth and class; therefore, he never had to “hurt those that he had to make his power perceptible” (On the Doctrine of the Feeling of Power, Nietzsche, 1882). Instead, he turned to more pleasurable tactics to prolongate this feeling of power his father had granted him. In the case of Donald Trump, more pleasurable tactics include spending a large sum of money. To elaborate, an article on Donald Trump reads, “In 1988 he acquired the Plaza Hotel for $407 million and spent $50 million refurbishing it.” Like Nietzsche philosophized, people can use pleasure to obtain or retain the feeling of power and will sacrifice a great amount of things, in this example, money. However, money would not always convince people to side with Donald Trump. One of the most famous examples of this has been Donald Trump’s belief that President Obama was not born in the United States. Consequently, some people believed this defamation of our President; meanwhile, others did not. His purpose in doing this was to gain political power which would aid him in his presidential campaign. Donald Trump used the pain that comes hand in hand with poor publicity to try to gain power in politics. However, relations to the House of the Scorpion include the similarities between Tom and Donald Trump. Similar to Donald Trump, Tom can be two faced. Farmer writes, “Tom. For a moment all Matt could see was his lying face. What you saw was not what you got with him. Underneath that angelic exterior was the boy who’d shot a helpless child with a peashooter…” (Farmer 213). Because he lies about so many things, Donald Trump is also
I agree with Nietzsche’s philosophy on power: to benefit or to hurt others is a way to exercises one’s power. I believe power can corrupt the mind; it corrupts the allowance of the urge to hold power to consume your morals. The author of “The House of the Scorpion” writes, “‘Well, Matt. Do you have any personal shortcomings you’d like to share?’ ‘No,’ said …show more content…
Donald Trump was born into a family with great wealth and class; therefore, he never had to “hurt those that he had to make his power perceptible” (On the Doctrine of the Feeling of Power, Nietzsche, 1882). Instead, he turned to more pleasurable tactics to prolongate this feeling of power his father had granted him. In the case of Donald Trump, more pleasurable tactics include spending a large sum of money. To elaborate, an article on Donald Trump reads, “In 1988 he acquired the Plaza Hotel for $407 million and spent $50 million refurbishing it.” Like Nietzsche philosophized, people can use pleasure to obtain or retain the feeling of power and will sacrifice a great amount of things, in this example, money. However, money would not always convince people to side with Donald Trump. One of the most famous examples of this has been Donald Trump’s belief that President Obama was not born in the United States. Consequently, some people believed this defamation of our President; meanwhile, others did not. His purpose in doing this was to gain political power which would aid him in his presidential campaign. Donald Trump used the pain that comes hand in hand with poor publicity to try to gain power in politics. However, relations to the House of the Scorpion include the similarities between Tom and Donald Trump. Similar to Donald Trump, Tom can be two faced. Farmer writes, “Tom. For a moment all Matt could see was his lying face. What you saw was not what you got with him. Underneath that angelic exterior was the boy who’d shot a helpless child with a peashooter…” (Farmer 213). Because he lies about so many things, Donald Trump is also