The Will to Power
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Oct 31, 2026
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This first part is meant as an introductory video to set you up for a solid understanding of whatever comes next.
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We will discuss the title of the work and Nietzsche's aims in writing it.
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In subsequent videos, we'll tackle the three essays that constitute Nietzsche's infamous genealogy of morals.
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Without further ado, let's jump into the work that some people would consider Nietzsche's masterpiece.
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Part 1.
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The title.
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As with all of Nietzsche's works, we can learn much from the title alone.
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The Antichrist was actually the first installment in a planned four-volume work, which Nietzsche could never complete due to his mental collapse.
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The work was to be entitled The Will to Power, a Transvaluation of All Values.
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And the four volumes making up the work would be The Antichrist, an attempt at a criticism of Christianity.
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The Free Spirit, a criticism of philosophy as a nihilistic movement.
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As it stands, however, only the first volume, the Antichrist, was released as intended by Nietzsche.
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There have been attempts to reconstruct Nietzsche's original vision of this great work, but so far this has been controversial.
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This reconstruction is known as the Will to Power and it was heavily edited by Nietzsche's sister.
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Because of this, and because Nietzsche never intended these notes for publication in the first place, this reconstruction is not generally considered to be canonical.
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The Antichrist was actually the first installment in a planned four-volume work, which Nietzsche could never complete due to his mental collapse.
speaker_4NARRATOR
The work was to be entitled The Will to Power, a Transvaluation of All Values.
speaker_4NARRATOR
And the four volumes making up the work would be The Antichrist, an attempt at a criticism of Christianity.
speaker_4NARRATOR
The Free Spirit, a criticism of philosophy as a nihilistic movement.
speaker_4NARRATOR
As it stands, however, only the first volume, the Antichrist, was released as intended by Nietzsche.
speaker_4NARRATOR
There have been attempts to reconstruct Nietzsche's original vision of this great work, but so far this has been controversial.
speaker_4NARRATOR
This reconstruction is known as the Will to Power, and it was heavily edited by Nietzsche's sister.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Because of this, and because Nietzsche never intended these notes for publication in the first place, this reconstruction is not generally considered to be canonical.
speaker_1HOST
This first part is meant as an introductory video to set you up for a solid understanding of whatever comes next.
speaker_1HOST
We will discuss the title of the work and Nietzsche's aims in writing it.
speaker_1HOST
In subsequent videos, we'll tackle the three essays that constitute Nietzsche's infamous genealogy of morals.
speaker_1HOST
If you want to be notified when these parts are released, kindly subscribe to the channel and click the bell button.
speaker_1HOST
Without further ado, let's jump into the work that some people would consider Nietzsche's masterpiece.
speaker_1HOST
Part 1.
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The title.
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As with all of Nietzsche's works, we can learn much from the title alone.
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Unfortunately, he never got around to writing the other three parts.
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They still survive in the form of notes that were compiled into a work that is now known as The Will to Power.
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The transvaluation of values is Nietzsche's call to radically reassess and overturn the moral frameworks that dominate Western culture, particularly those rooted in Christianity.
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He argues that traditional morality, centered on humility, compassion, and self-denial, emerged from a so-called slave morality that glorifies weakness and suppresses humanity's natural instincts for power, creativity, and self-assertion.
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However, a little disclaimer is perhaps in order before we proceed further.
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Nietzsche's grand prediction of nihilism enveloping the European continent, while present in embryonic form in his earlier writings, is fleshed out most explicitly in the infamous book The Will to Power.
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The problem with that book is that it's not to be taken at face value as a work by Nietzsche.
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Two problems arise.
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This part of the story is actually pretty plausible.
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First of all, we know that Nietzsche's sister heavily edited the work that is now known as The Will to Power, a collection of Nietzsche's final notes.
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For some scholars, this means that the book is not an accurate representation of Nietzsche's thought.
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But secondly, even so-called canonical books by Nietzsche were treated in a problematic way by his close circle of friends.
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End of Part 2 of The Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Phibson
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The Crisis, Nihilism, and the Idea of Recurrence by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900 From The Will to Power, Book 1 This is a LibriVox recording.
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All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org The Crisis, Nihilism, and the Idea of Recurrence Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions.
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Morality has therefore always taught the most profound hatred and contempt of the fundamental trait of character of all rulers, i.e. their will to power.
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To suppress, to deny and to decompose this morality would mean to regard this most thoroughly detested instinct with the reverse of the old feeling and valuation.
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If the sufferer and the oppressed man were to lose his belief in his right to contemn the will to power, his position would be desperate.
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This would be so if the trait above mentioned were essential to life, in which case it would follow that even that will to morality was only a cloak to this will to power, as are also even that hatred and contempt.
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