Part 1, Section 13
Life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only an indirect and most frequent consequence.
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From Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche argues that life itself is fundamentally will to power, and that all psychological drives, philosophical systems, and moral valuations are expressions of this more basic force.
Part 2, Section 36
Thought experiment proposing that the world viewed from within is will to power and nothing besides.
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Critique of moral philosophers as failing to provide a genuine science of morality, rooted in misunderstanding power.
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Life as essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of the alien and weaker; exploitation as consequence of will to power.
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