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>>15438296
It's what makes your peepee go boing when you see a pretty girl.

>>15438296
>What does Nietzsche's Will to Power mean

After reading Jung to complement my understanding of Neetzsche, I regard the will to power as the ultimate driving force of all living things (don't put so much emphasis on the word "power" rather "striving" is a more appropriate word). You as an individual have several impulses that strive to impose their goals on you and the world, their "will to power" and is your job as a logical person to negotiate with all your impulses wills to power so that you function as a human being

You can apply the will to power to all abstract concepts. Schopenhauer's "will to live" is essentially your reproductive impulse's will to power

it means marxism
it means selfishness
it means materialism even though it doesn't seem like it does
it means despair
arguably it is despair
it means relativism
it means polytheism

Deleuze does a pretty good job of explaining it. Read 'On Nietzsche'.

>>15438296
Let me contrast with Schopenhuaer's will to life.

Will to Life is Schopey's view of the fundamental will that guides human action. Namely, it all revolves around staying alive and not dying.

Nietzsche says "Oh man, this seems wrong. People do things that risk their lives for all sort of reasons. Hell, people even are willing to *die* for reasons".

He says the "Will to Power" as an alternative. The will to power not merely being "Power" as commonly understood but also related to concepts of self-overcoming that Nietzsche loved so much.

Depending on your interpretation, The will to power is either something metaphysical or just something psychological.

>>15438717
t. Brainlet who didnt read Nietzsche

>>15438317
This

>>15438296
Will to power was Nietzsche intuitive grasp and psychologization of neguentropy and survival of the fittest

>>15438296
It's the ontological basis from which he interprets everything. Reading Schopenhauer can help you understand will to power, but you can also understand it just by reading more Nietzsche. Will isn't merely intent; it's force. There are no bodies in the world, but forces, and will to power is THE force from which all forces stem. Think of it this way: "you" and "I" are not so simple as these singular words — we are complex organisms consisting of more parts than we are conscious of, every single property of which is defined by surrounding context, making everything intertwined in some way. The reason for it all, if there is one, as far as Nietzsche could see, is will to power, which also means will to growth.

>>15440265
A stemfag

>>15438299
Exactly and noone can tell otherwise