{"id":371,"date":"2015-03-25T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2015-03-24T07:49:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T11:49:50","slug":"the-will-to-power-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=371","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 \/>I: Criticism of Morality<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;254<\/b> &#0160; An inquiiy into the origin of our moral valuations and tables of law has absolutely nothing to do with the criticism of them, though people persist in believing it has; the two matters lie quite apart, notwithstanding the fact that the knowledge of the <i>pudenda origo<\/i> of a valuation does diminish its prestige and prepares the way to a critical attitude and spirit towards it.<\/p>\n<p>What is the actual worth of our valuations and tables of moral laws?  What is the outcome of their dominion?  For whom?  In relation to what?  Answer: for Life.  But what is Life?  A new and more definite concept of what \u201cLife \u201cis, becomes necessary here.  My formula of this concept is: Life is Will to Power.<\/p>\n<p>What is the meaning of the very act of valuing?  Does it point back to another, metaphysical world, or does it point down?  (As Kant believed, who lived in a period which preceded the great historical movement).  In short: what is its origin?  Or had it no human \u201corigin \u201c?  Answer: moral valuations are a sort of explanation, they constitute a method of interpreting.  Interpretation in itself is a symptom of definite physiological conditions, as also of a definite spiritual level of ruling judgments.  What is it that interprets?  Our passions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoI: Criticism of Morality &#0167;254 &#0160; An inquiiy into the origin of our moral valuations and tables of law has absolutely nothing to do with the criticism of them, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=371\">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\/371"}],"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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}