Will to Power

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• oscilloscope · Oct 3, 2010 · Recommends

  "Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche, who you'll probably love if you like Rand. "A Thousand Plateaus" by Deleuze & Guattari. A psychedelic philosophy of complexity. Not exactly an airtight philosophical system,…

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• edna_piranha · Jul 10, 2010 · Recommends

  …that are somewhat readable (this is subjective of course), I'd suggest: 1. Maurice Merleau-Ponty - The Phenomenology of Perception 2. Simone de Beauvoir - Ethics of Ambiguity 3. Friedrich Nietzsche - Will to Power I'd highly recommend NOT reading Being and Time by Heidegger - you'll want to stab your eyes out ten times. Outside of pure philosophical texts and more emphasis on fictional works related to philosophy,…

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• resource_waste · May 19, 2025 · Recommends

  …things, you are demonstrating success power and riches. This makes people do whatever you want, or at least tilt the scale closer into your favor. I think Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, then reading Will To Power would very much get you up to speed. Other authors, Hobbes, Machiavelli, maybe Stirner, maybe skip to Callicles in Plato's Gorgias. Even ChatGPT can probably get you started on Nietzsche.

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• keiferski · Jun 19, 2021 · Mentions

  …Form from the tangible world, but is closer to the Will itself. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer-aesthetics/#... Also just as a side note, be skeptical when reading about Nietzsche’s Will to Power idea. While he did mention it in his actual published works, much of the idea comes from his posthumous Will to Power collection of notebooks which was put together and published by somewhat nefarious…

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• Locke1689 · Oct 3, 2010 · Mentions

  "Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche, who you'll probably love if you like Rand. Read The Gay Science first. Will to Power is a posthumous publication of, essentially, Nietzsche's notes. It's not clear he ever meant…

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• agigao · Jul 13, 2018 · Mentions

  …Goethe * How To Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler * Python Machine Learning 2nd Edition - Sebastian Raschka * Economics 19e - Samuelson/Nordhaus Next in line: * The Sleepwalkers - Hermann Broch * The Will to Power - Friedrich Nietzsche * Oxford Handbook of Business and Government - David Coen(and other dozens of lecturers)

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• osti · Feb 25, 2017 · Mentions

  …today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima. -Nietzsche

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• daseiner1 · Jun 16, 2021 · Mentions

  …today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima.” - Nietzsche

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• Barrin92 · Sep 9, 2021 · Mentions

  …whatever form, is what describes the world best, is the correct stance to take, and so on, you ought to do it. Not because it's 'good' or 'bad', but because it's intellectually and personally honest. In the Will to Power one of the first things Nietzsche says is that we'll have to pay for 2000 years of Christianity. That is to say, the loss of absolute values and meaning is painful. Nonetheless it is necessary, because…

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• oz · Jun 14, 2010 · Mentions

  …ourselves or where we want to be, and the only thing that can get us farther in life is our own determination and willpower. Start thinking long term and tell yourself you are badass." Willpower and Will To Power. Nietzsche FTW! "Feel free to hit me up if you want to chat more, sounds like we have some stuff in common." Email sent.

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• steveklabnik · Jan 7, 2013 · Mentions

  …super partial to Nietzsche and Philosophy: in the intro, Mike Hardt says it's "the best introduction to both Nietzsche's thought and Deleuze's." My understanding is that it relies a bit too much on The Will To Power for more recent Nietzsche scholarship, but that doesn't necessarily matter... anyway. You should check it out for sure, as it has really interesting relations to _why as well... TL;DR: A Thousand Plateaus,…

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• origin_path · Aug 29, 2022 · Mentions

  …it with Marxist morality - hundreds of millions of deaths, which is why a common American insult to the Soviets in the 20th century was to call them "godless". This is what Nietzsche predicted in "The Will To Power". "It should be obvious that killing in general will harm your own chances of survival in general ... This is simple evolution. If we don't optimize for life in our society then we have a clear disadvantage…

• steveklabnik · Oct 9, 2019 · Mentions

  His book on Nietzsche is very good, though a bit controversial since he leans on Will to Power so much. I've been meaning to write a blog post titled "Nietzsche loves Nokogiri" for the last... five years? Whew... The thesis is that basically, Nokogiri was the right response to the situation with…

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• ndiscussion · Jan 22, 2021 · Mentions

  Interesting, and not what I expected. I presumed it was something about slave morality ala Nietzsche's Will to Power. Useful idiots and all that. It seems the strongest way to win arguments nowadays is to simply go on the offensive and ignore their claims. The opposite side has millions of tricks. First, they hope…

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