{"id":483,"date":"2015-03-30T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2015-03-29T07:56:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T11:56:36","slug":"the-will-to-power-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=483","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 \/>II: Criticism of Morality<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;259<\/b> &#0160; A point of view: in all valuations there is a definite purpose: the preservation of an individual, a community, a race, a state, a church, a belief, or a culture.  Thanks to the fact that <span style=\"background-color:#9BF1F2\">people forget that all valuing has a purpose<\/span>, one and the same man may swarm with a host of contradictory valuations and therefore invite a host of contradictory impulses.  This is the expression of disease in man as opposed to the health of animals, in which all the instincts answer certain definite purposes.<\/p>\n<p>This creature full of contradictions, however, has in his being a grand method of acquiring knowledge: he feels the pros and cons, he elevates himself to Justice &#8212; that is to say, to the ascertaining of principles beyond the valuations good and evil.<\/p>\n<p>The wisest man would thus be the richest in contradictions; he would also be gifted with mental antennae wherewith he could understand all kinds of men; and with it all he would have his great moments, when all the chords in his being would ring in splendid unison &#8212; the rarest of accidents even in us!  A sort of planetary movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoII: Criticism of Morality &#0167;259 &#0160; A point of view: in all valuations there is a definite purpose: the preservation of an individual, a community, a race, a state, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=483\">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\/483"}],"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=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}