Nietzsche On Will To Power
Nietzsche's views run along similar lines. Not only morals do pervade life spheres, but, they derive their normative force values with which they are associated . However, this values are not the “ground zero” of morality: as Schacht puts is '[…] for Nietzsche […] all normativity is ultimately of extra-moral origin. For Nietzsche that ultimate origin – the Ur-source of all normativity – is to be found in the basic disposition he takes to be operative in all that transpires in this world, which he calls "will to power" and which expresses itself in the various more specific dispositions informing our affective constitutions and lives' . Hence, will to power - a will of self-overcoming, a primordial impulse which appears in all beings - is what Nietzsche presents as the integral moral source, and genealogy is the practice of tracing the origin of morals back to the will to power.
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In the light of Nietzsche's repeated assertion that everything is in constant flux , this includes the will to power as well. In fact, it is the will to power as the origin of the world in all its aspects that causes this to be in a constant motion. Hence, just as Lear thought of love as a drive, Nietzsche too thinks of our moral source as something “always on the move”. Furthermore, as the moral source is the framework of our world, it cannot precede it but necessarily come to be with what it frames – that is, at the same time as our subjectivity comes to be and to conceive itself within a world. In this sense, “will to power” is itself nothing but a representation of the essence of reality, insofar as this composes us, our world, and the morals through which we frame our experience of
In the light of Nietzsche's repeated assertion that everything is in constant flux , this includes the will to power as well. In fact, it is the will to power as the origin of the world in all its aspects that causes this to be in a constant motion. Hence, just as Lear thought of love as a drive, Nietzsche too thinks of our moral source as something “always on the move”. Furthermore, as the moral source is the framework of our world, it cannot precede it but necessarily come to be with what it frames – that is, at the same time as our subjectivity comes to be and to conceive itself within a world. In this sense, “will to power” is itself nothing but a representation of the essence of reality, insofar as this composes us, our world, and the morals through which we frame our experience of