{"id":1541,"date":"2015-07-01T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2015-06-30T16:19:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T20:19:58","slug":"the-will-to-power-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Will to Power<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><i>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto<\/i><br \/>V: The Moral Ideal<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;348<\/b> &#0160; Course of the struggle: the fighter tries to transform his opponent into the exact opposite of himself &#8212; imaginatively, of course.  He tries to believe in himself to such an extent that he may have the courage necessary for the \u201cgood cause\u201d (as if he were the good cause); as if reason, taste and virtue were being assailed by his opponents &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The belief of which he is most in need, as the strongest means of defense and attack, is the belief in himself, which, however, knows how to misinterpret itself as a belief in God.  He never pictures the advantages and the uses of victory, but only understands victory for the sake of victory for God\u2019s sake.  Every small community (or individual), finding itself involved in a struggle, strives to convince itself of this: \u201cGood taste, good judgment and virtue are ours\u201d.  War urges people to this exaggerated self-esteem &#8212;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoV: The Moral Ideal &#0167;348 &#0160; Course of the struggle: the fighter tries to transform his opponent into the exact opposite of himself &#8212; imaginatively, of course. He tries &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1541\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}