The Will To Power PDF book by Friedrich Nietzsche (1967) Translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale

Introduction:Two false views of The Will to Power have had their day, in turn. The first was propagated by Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche, the philosopher’s sister, when she first published the book after his death: for a long time, it was widely held to represent Nietzsche’s crowning systematic achievement, to which one had to turn for his final views. Alfred Baumler began his postscript to the handy one-volume edition of the work (Kroner’s Taschenausgabe, 1 vol. 78, 1930): “The Will to Power is Nietzsche’s philosophical magnum opus.All the fundamental results of his thinking are brought together in this book. The aversion of its author against systematizers must not deter us from calling this work a system.” Philosophically, Baumler was a nobody, but the editions of Nietzsche’s works for which he wrote his postscripts were the most convenient and least expensive and read very widely. Being a Nazi, Baumler was called to Berlin as professor of philosophy after Hitler came to power.His ideas about Nietzsche were accepted not only by large numbers of Germans but also by many of Nietzsche’s detractors outside Germany. Ernest Newman, for example, admits in the fourth volume of his Life of Richard Wagner (1946) that his account of Nietzsche relies heavily on Baumler’s “masterly epitome of Nietzsche’s thinking, Nietzsche, Der Philosoph und Politiker ”Contents of the bookI. Nihilism 9II. History of European Nihilism 40I. Critique of Religion1. Genesis of Religions 852. History of Christianity 983. Christian Ideals 127II. Critique of Morality1. Origin of Moral Valuations 1462. The Herd 1563. General Remarks on Morality 1624. How Virtue is Made to Dominate 1705. The Moral Ideal 180A. Critique of Ideals 180B. Critique of the “Good Man,” the Saint, etc. 191C. Disparagement of the So-Called Evil Qualities 197D. Critique of the Words:Improvement, Perfecting, Elevation 2106. Further Considerations for a Critique of Morality 215III. Critique of Philosophy1. General Observations 2202. Critique of Greek Philosophy 23 13. Truth and Error of Philosophers 2474. Further Considerations for a Critique of Philosophy 253I. The Will to Power as Knowledge1. Method of Inquiry 2612. The Epistemological Starting Point 2623. Belief in the “ Ego The Subject 2674. Biology of the Drive to Knowledge. Perspectivism 2725. Origin of Reason and Logic 2766. Consciousness 2837. Judgment. True — False 2868. Against Causalism 2939. Thing-in-Itself and Appearance 30010. Metaphysical Need 30711. Biological Value of Knowledge 32212. Science 324II. The Will to Power in Nature1. The Mechanistic Interpretation of the World 3322. The Will to Power as Life 341A. The Organic Process 341B. Man 3473. Theory of the Will to Power and of Values 366III. The Will to Power as Society and Individual1. Society and State 3822. The Individual 403IV. The Will to Power as Art 419I. Order of Rank1. The Doctrine of Order of Rank 4572. The Strong and the Weak 4593. The Noble Man 4934. The Masters of the Earth 5005. The Great Human Being 5046. The Highest Man as Legislator of the Future 509II. Dionysus 520III. The Eternal Recurrence 544appendix: Commentary on the facsimiles 551