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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Nietzsche: nature as will to power « Previous | |Next »
August 17, 2006

In Wildness as a Critical Border Concept: Nietzsche and the Debate on Wilderness Restoration Martin Drenthen spells out Nietzsche's philosophy of nature in terms of the will to power. He says that:

According to the theory of will to power, all of nature consists of a dynamic struggle between a plurality of competing forces that try to overpower each other. Nature is a complex of commanding and obeying forces. In this struggle, contingent temporary organisations emerge, that are then again being overpowered by other forces, thus constantly shifting the power-balance. These natural forces are not blind, physical forces, but have an 'inner side'. All of nature (not just living nature) has a striving towards 'internalisation': all that is, exist not just as a force (i.e. something that works externally on other entities), but also as a will (i.e. with an interior quality), and as interpretation. Having an interior, mental, quality is not something exclusively human, but is an aspect of everything that exists in nature.

Nature is understood as a never-ending struggle of different, competing, interpretations, which all try to overpower the others; human beings are mere parts of that ongoing process in nature.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 11:58 PM | | Comments (0)
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