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Nietzsche Will To Power Analysis

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Will to power and political thought
If we are to understand Nietzsche’s important contribution to political thought , we must examine the way he under stands the close link between immorality and idea of human betterment. Nietzsche as is often mentioned mistrusted a tragic worldview because he considered man in a significant ethical struggle usually ending in ruin or profound disappointment. He does not espouse a conventional morality defined by the antimony good/bad, but proposes a way of living ( an ethics) that is intended to better the human condition. However he sees this proposal as a rife with difficulties, making life as such a trial of suffering and pain and does not see an ultimate inevitable redemption for man but rather ultimate failure is more common. The individual is seen as severely limited in capacities and the world as broken or possessing no clear, simple and unified order. Nietzsche does not see a path for human achievement except in so far as it comes from answering the challenges of the infirmity of life. The uncertainty about the ultimate unity of human experience and meaning leads to the tragic or existential ethos of his work and radical critique of Christianity leads us to see that he rejects …show more content…

He dwelt upon the concept of agonism in such a way that the theme suffuses his oeuvre. From his early writings on ‘Homer’s Contest’ to the miscellaneous notes that make up the will to power, the notion of the contest recurs. In the former, Nietzsche argues the values of contests and confrontation, as a form of ‘wrestling’ that enables the individuals to improve himself through a challenge. It is a challenge that involves the fundamental continuity of the human and the natural. Diego A. von Vacano states in The Art of

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