Nietzsche's Will to Power - by allywaytalk - Ally Zhu

This piece explains what he means when he has Zarathustra say in Thus Spoke Zarathustra that "a table of values hangs over every people... It is the voice of its will to power... Man first implanted values into things to maintain himself... Only through evaluation is there value." Why does he believe that this conception alone makes the nature of value comprehensible? Is he right? In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche outlines his philosophical views on the relation between value and the will, especially through his conception of the “Will to Power.” The “Will to Power” can be understood as one’s personal desire and ability to recreate the world in the image of one’s will, where value is not discovered but self-made. This arises out of Nietzsche’s premise that objective values do not exist, and directly conflicts with three schools of thought whose supporters he has coined the “Defenders of Orthodoxy,” the “Ultimate Man”, and the “Spirit of Gravity.” ​For Nietzsche, the “Defenders of Or

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