{"id":1840,"date":"2015-08-10T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2015-08-09T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T15:03:07","slug":"the-will-to-power-146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1840","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: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;379<\/b> &#0160; The great Nihilistic counterfeiting concealed beneath an artful abuse of moral values.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Love regarded as self-effacement; as also pity.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Only the most impersonal intellect (\u201cthe philosopher\u201d) can know the truth, \u201cthe true essence and nature of things\u201d.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Genius, great men are great, because they do not strive to further their own interests: the value of man increases in proportion as he effaces himself.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Art as the work of the \u201cpure free-willed subject \u201c; misunderstanding of \u201cobjectivity\u201d.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Happiness as the object of life: virtue as a means to an end.<\/ul>\n<p>The pessimistic condemnation of life by Schopenhauer is a moral one.  Transference of the herd standards into the realm of metaphysics.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cindividual\u201d lacks sense, he must therefore have his origin in \u201cthe thing in itself\u201d (and the significance of his existence must be shown to be \u201cerror\u201d); parents are only an \u201caccidental cause\u201d.  The mistake on the part of science is in not understanding the individuum: he is the entirety of all past life in one development and not its result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoV: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities &#0167;379 &#0160; The great Nihilistic counterfeiting concealed beneath an artful abuse of moral values. Love regarded as self-effacement; as also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1840\">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\/1840"}],"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=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}