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Nietzsche's expanded desire to grow, create, and impose will on reality.
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will to power
Nietzsche's expanded desire to grow, create, and impose will on reality.
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Nietzsche accepts desire's manifestation but rejects Schopenhauer's negation, asking why desire would embody itself unless embodiment should amplify desire.
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For Nietzsche, the will is not merely will to life but will to power: the drive to expand, fulfill desire, and impose will on reality.
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Germany is framed through will to power and living space: vulnerability inside Europe produces a drive to colonize surrounding territory and make it German.
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"...life, we want to procreate. But for Nietzsche, it's the will to power, okay? This is a really famous phrase from Nietzsche, the will..."
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"Now let's move on, okay? So building on top of Wagner and Schopenhauer is Friedrich Nietzsche, okay? Who is considered one of the greatest..."
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"...a dark imagination, the Germans believed in the idea of will to power. We will discuss this when we discuss German philosophy, especially Nietzsche,..."
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"The concept is called living space. So throughout its history, the German people have always been invaded, attacked by its adversaries. So to protect..."
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"...our desire and help us achieve our desire, okay? The will to power is a really important concept. Schopenhauer believes that multiplicity is conflict...."
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"...I. Know. Now. Sonya. That. Whoever. Strong. In. Mind. And. Spirit. Will. Power. Over. Them. And. Then. Who. Is. Greatly. Daring. Is. Right. In...."
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"...new understanding will become the renaissance brain the scientific brain which will power the rise of modernity okay does that make sense so and..."
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"...being free of sin, but redeeming yourself from sin through sheer will power, through love. Okay? Let's continue. All right. The second thing this..."
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