Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
Concluding remarks concerning the criticism of morality§403 One may admit the truth to the point where one is sufficiently elevated no longer to require the disciplinary school of moral error. When one judges life morally, it disgusts one.
Neither should false personalities be invented; one should not say, for instance, “Nature is cruel”. It is precisely when one perceives that there is no such central controlling and responsible force that one is relieved!
Evolution of man. A. He tried to attain to a certain power over Nature and over himself. (Morality was necessary in order to make man triumph in his struggle with Nature and the “wild animal”).
B. If power over Nature has been attained, this power can be used as a help in our development: Will to Power as a self-enhancing and self-strengthening principle.