{"id":1937,"date":"2015-08-20T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2015-08-19T05:43:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T09:43:42","slug":"the-will-to-power-156","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1937","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;389<\/b> &#0160; Let us consider how dearly a moral canon such as this (\u201can ideal\u201d) makes us pay.  (Its enemies are &#8212; well?  The \u201cegoists\u201d).  <\/p>\n<p>The melancholy astuteness of self-abasement in Europe (Pascal, La Rochefoucauld) inner enfeeblement, discouragement and self-vexation of the non-herd animals &#8212;  <\/p>\n<p>The perpetual process of laying stress upon mediocre qualities as being the most valuable (modesty in rank and file, the creature who is an instrument).  <\/p>\n<p>Pangs of conscience associated with all that is self-glorifying and original: <\/p>\n<p>thus follows the unhappiness, the gloominess of the world, from the standpoint of stronger and better-constituted men!  <\/p>\n<p>Herd consciousness and timorousness transferred to philosophy and religion.  <\/p>\n<p>Let us leave the psychological impossibility of a purely unselfish action out of consideration!<\/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;389 &#0160; Let us consider how dearly a moral canon such as this (\u201can ideal\u201d) makes us pay. (Its enemies &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1937\">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\/1937"}],"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=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}