This behavior betters the value of life for the creature. The will is not free, but the instinctual will is a will toward power, rather than some other end. How is that different from a person trying to make more money in a job, drive expensive cars, improve oneself through education, what have you?
Animals don't care about power? What about alpha males and females in pack-oriented animals? It might not be a conscious desire, but the alpha animals get the pick of the litter for mates, first in food, etc.
there is hegel here too. nietzsche is very close to hegel - the instrument in somewhat a fable - consciousness is consciousness of something - consciousness cannot develop in isolation: it never sees itself save for a reflection of its environment in itself.
i do not think something must be a concept in order to be real (such as cogito). Power is more than a concept. The unconcious is violent for nietzsche because the conscious mind cannot escape it's grasp - its power.
Doesn't it seem like Nietzsche's ego consciousness (his inner sense of being Nietzsche) saw the unconscious as violent because, from his ego's point of view, its the only thing with more power than itself? In other words, because the ego's will is always to gain power and control it necessarily negatively interprets any source of contention for that power?
in the manner of an outgrowth, it's origins are unknown to itself. In the manner of strength competing, my own strength is unknwon to me, but in violent competition i find there is something beyond my evaluation of myself - some strength in addition to what i know of myself. This is will or instinct.
This behavior betters the value of life for the creature. The will is not free, but the instinctual will is a will toward power, rather than some other end. How is that different from a person trying to make more money in a job, drive expensive cars, improve oneself through education, what have you?
youareasheep 4 years ago
Animals don't care about power? What about alpha males and females in pack-oriented animals? It might not be a conscious desire, but the alpha animals get the pick of the litter for mates, first in food, etc.
youareasheep 4 years ago
there is hegel here too. nietzsche is very close to hegel - the instrument in somewhat a fable - consciousness is consciousness of something - consciousness cannot develop in isolation: it never sees itself save for a reflection of its environment in itself.
i do not think something must be a concept in order to be real (such as cogito). Power is more than a concept. The unconcious is violent for nietzsche because the conscious mind cannot escape it's grasp - its power.
trerrunus 4 years ago
Doesn't it seem like Nietzsche's ego consciousness (his inner sense of being Nietzsche) saw the unconscious as violent because, from his ego's point of view, its the only thing with more power than itself? In other words, because the ego's will is always to gain power and control it necessarily negatively interprets any source of contention for that power?
redliterocket4 4 years ago
If the ego consciousness realizes it cannot escape the grasp of the unconscious, how is it still conscious?
redliterocket4 4 years ago
in the manner of an outgrowth, it's origins are unknown to itself. In the manner of strength competing, my own strength is unknwon to me, but in violent competition i find there is something beyond my evaluation of myself - some strength in addition to what i know of myself. This is will or instinct.
trerrunus 4 years ago
i find nietzche i just read two off his books
to really simalar to Heraclitus teachings
existentialistboy 4 years ago