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Is everyone's sense of power always predicated on diminishing that of someone else's?
Dimishing the power of another only yields power for the diminisher in the fashion of looking thinner by hanging out with fatter people.
Power belongs to the individual, and it is amassed independent ...
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Is everyone's sense of power always predicated on diminishing that of someone else's?
the enlightened pursuit of ones own happiness coincides with the
happiness of the community as a whole...[not a] zero sum game
Thanks for the phrase.
Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography - ...
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Is everyone's sense of power always predicated on diminishing that of someone else's?
I begin by distinguishing the two conceptions of power at play in Nietzsche’s
arguments, power as quantitative superiority of ability and as qualitative feeling
of power (das Gefühl der Macht), an ...
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Is everyone's sense of power always predicated on diminishing that of someone else's?
In regards to Nietzsche, so if you approach the question about the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche within the context of will to power, AND if one is working with a psychological interpretation of ...
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What did Nietzsche mean by monsters and the abyss?
Could already be an example of "slave morality" which he seems to have outlined later in that book. In that if you deify your opponents as monsters and lean in on your resentment of them, ...
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what are some examples of a monster (nietzsche monster and the abyss)
Nietzsche talks about the dragon 'Thou Shalt', as the opponent that requires a lion-nature to face in his metamorphoses. Discussed here, along with the Monster Theory interpretation if what Nietzsche ...
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Is Nietzsche's goal -- for the "overman" and "higher type" -- just 'forgetfulness'?
no happiness, no cheerfulness, no hope, no pride, no present, without
forgetfulness
I think calling that forgetfulness "suffering" (due to pain, impermanence or conditioned existence) is a ...
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Did Nietzsche “believe” in causality?
I quote from Beyond Good and Evil section 21:
It is we alone who have fabricated causes, succession, relativity, purpose. When we speak of something of 'in itself', we speak mythologically.
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