{"id":432,"date":"2015-03-27T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2015-03-26T13:35:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:35:19","slug":"the-will-to-power-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=432","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;256<\/b> &#0160; Under \u201cMorality\u201c I understand a system of valuations which is in relation with the conditions of a creature\u2019s life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=qBqdsvyvDec&#038;subid=&#038;offerid=266972.1&#038;type=10&#038;tmpid=8432&#038;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%252Fw%252Fon-the-genealogy-of-morals-friedrich-nietzsche%252F1100059663%253Fean%253D9780760780817%2526itm%253D1%2526usri%253Dnietzsche%252Bon%252Bthe%252Bgenealogy%252Bof%252Bmorals\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"icon\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.imagesbn.com\/p\/9780760780817_p0_v4_s260x420.JPG\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin:10px;\" width=100><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"icon\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=qBqdsvyvDec&#038;bids=266972.1&#038;type=10\">This is such a short and reasonable-sounding note that it&#8217;s easy to overlook that Nietzsche is making here an epochal break with the whole of prior Western thought.  Morality, he is saying, is not something pre-existing and &#8216;out there,&#8217; as the Abrahamic faiths have taught for more than 3000-years (<i>e.g.<\/i>, &#8220;The Invisible Wizard says so.&#8221;), but something located in the facts of life right here.  This was the subject of one of his most famous, widely-read books, <i>The Genealogy of Morality<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoI: Criticism of Morality &#0167;256 &#0160; Under \u201cMorality\u201c I understand a system of valuations which is in relation with the conditions of a creature\u2019s life. This is such a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=432\">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\/432"}],"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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}