The Will to Power: Reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

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Once again, this is one of those uh moments where I just I I don't know how he niche does it, but these passages really if you if you only read one or two sections of beyond good and evil, not that we haven't had many great sections attacking sermon on the mount, attacking Plato, you know, I mean, he's just going at everybody with this fundamental take, but here we finally get to uh the beginning of his articulation of the will to power, which is his central theme, perhaps a central central theme perhaps not the central theme but certainly an important one but in articulating [clears throat] this you'll see that he achieves a couple of amazing moments. So first he says supposing that nothing else is given as real but our world of desires and passions that we cannot sink or rise to any other reality but just that of our impulses for thinking is only a relation of these impulses to one another. Are we not permitted to make the attempt and to ask the question whether this which is given does not suffice? So just pause there.

So he's no this is a theme that's already been up here of course you know talking about how everything is a autobiography that we're really not thinking. We're just expressing deeper impulses. Hol Freud that will come up a lot here. Um but he he then says let's just imagine let's just take this as given right this he he posit this that that we there is no other reality we can access beyond that which is driven by our desires and feelings and passions and emotions.

This is the reality we're given and that's enough. See now some people might say oh yeah that's all we can do but we've got to try to get beyond that or that's limiting or that but he says no not only to say that's all we give we are given that's all that's possible but that is ...