Episode Details

WATCH our in-depth video on the Will to Power in Beyond Good and Evil here:
https://youtu.be/2Ap9lkhHizU

PART 1:
https://youtu.be/0TbxTGwge-4

In this second part we go over Nietzsche's entire body of published work and trace how the concept of the Will to Power evolved throughout Nietzsche's intellectual career and philosophy.
We see how Nietzsche first thinks about power in The Joyful Science but how the term was first coined in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and how it gradually becomes an all-encompassing force by the time we get to works such as Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ. We will see how the main question in this series, "is the Will to Power a metaphysical force or a materialist or psychological drive?" is not so simple to answer.
In the third and final part we will conclude our series by looking at some contemporary interpretations of this notoriously difficult concept.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:35 The Joyful Science
03:22 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
05:38 Beyond Good and Evil
06:57 Twilight of the Idols
08:23 The Anti-Christ
10:15 Conclusion

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