{"id":1908,"date":"2015-08-17T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2015-08-16T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T10:50:44","slug":"the-will-to-power-153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1908","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;386<\/b> &#0160; There are some very simple peoples and men who believe that continuous fine weather would be a desirable thing: they still believe today in rebus moralibus, that the \u201cgood man\u201d alone and nothing else than the \u201cgood man\u201d is to be desired and that the ultimate end of man\u2019s evolution will be that only the good man will remain on earth (and that it is only to that end that all efforts should be directed).  This is in the highest degree an uneconomical thought; as we have already suggested, it is the very acme of simplicity and it is nothing more than the expression of the agreeableness which the \u201cgood man\u201d creates ( -\u2014 he gives rise to no fear, he permits of relaxation, he gives what one is able to take).<\/p>\n<p>With a more educated eye one learns to desire exactly the reverse &#8212; that is to say, an ever greater dominion of evil, man\u2019s gradual emancipation from the narrow and aggravating bonds of morality, the growth of power around the greatest forces of Nature and the ability to enlist the passions in one\u2019s service.<\/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;386 &#0160; There are some very simple peoples and men who believe that continuous fine weather would be a desirable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1908\">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\/1908"}],"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=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}