Chapter 69 An Attempt to Revaluate All Values ​​The Will to Power Section 1

the will to power attempt to revaluate all values first quarter <897>① ①The serial number was edited by I. Foster Nietzsche, sister of Nietzsche.Schlechta, a Nietzsche research expert, restored the original order according to Nietzsche's posthumous manuscript. How can man be exalted to the pinnacle of his eminence and power.The person who thinks about this problem must first understand that he himself must stand outside morality.For, in essence, the purpose of morality is the opposite, to prevent or destroy the development in the direction of eminence.For, in fact, such a development would attract so many people to its service that it was natural that there should be a countercurrent.The weak, the pampered, and the mediocre must rise together to resist the brilliance of life and power. For this, they must make a new evaluation of themselves, so as to condemn the excessively full life, and if possible, destroy it.Morality is, therefore, itself a life-hostile idiom insofar as it deliberately subjugates all kinds of life.

<376> Introversion of people.In view of the realization of peace and the establishment of society, powerful desires cannot be vented outwards, so they try to use illusions to maintain inner peace, so introversion arises as the times require.The need for hostility, cruelty, vengeance, and violence falls, that is, "regresses"; greed and conquest are in the will to know;Desire thus becomes a monster against which one has to fight.etc. <698> Kant said: "To these words of Earl Willy (On Pleasure and Pain" 1781), I can say with certainty: the only principle that drives people forward is pain, and pain is higher than pleasure. Pleasure is not a positive state of mind①"

①The title and quotations of the book are in Italian. - translator <758> Slavery Today: Barbarism in Show!Where were the slave masters for whom the slaves worked?One need not always expect two complementary social classes to exist side by side.Interest and pleasure are the slave theory of life. "Praise of labour," was the slave's glorification of himself—for they were incapable of idleness. <61> Our age, because of its indiscrimination and its obsession with avoiding evil, is the age of the poor.Our rich—they're paupers!The real purpose of all wealth is completely forgotten!

<941> The essence of our gardens and palaces (and, in this sense, the essence of the pursuit of all wealth) is this: to leave chaos and baseness behind, and to create a comfort zone for the nobleman of the soul. Most people, of course, think that they are on a higher level of nature when they are pleasing to the eye by things of beauty and ease.Therefore, to go hunting, travel, etc. in Italy, you need to read books and watch plays.They want to cultivate their own temperament in this way-this is the meaning of their cultural work!However, what the strong and capable people want is to cultivate others, and they don't want to see dissidents around them!

Therefore, some people go into nature, not to make themselves appear in it, but to indulge in nature and forget themselves. This kind of "being out of the way" is the wish of all the weak and those who are dissatisfied with themselves. <725> In the past, the doctrine of the state was thought to be shrewd utilitarianism: because now it is a reality! ——The era of the king's rule is over, and no one looks down on the king.Because no one wants to regard the king as the original symbol of his ideal, but as a means to achieve his goal. —This is the whole truth! <1026>

Actually, it's not that "virtue makes happiness"—it's that only the strong claim their state of happiness as a virtue. Vice belongs to the strong and the virtuous.For base, base deeds belong to the submissive. The strongest man, the creative man, must be the most evil man, because he opposes all ideals of others, implements his ideals in all, and transforms them in his own image.Here, evil is: toughness, pain, coercion. Men like Napoleon should reappear, cementing faith in the despotism of individual great men.But they themselves were corrupted by the means he had to employ, and thus lost their nobility of character.Had it been carried out among another class of people, he could have used other means.A Caesar, then, does not necessarily have to go bad.

<935> Basic Types: Goodness, Nobility, Greatness of Soul, which all come from necessary abundance.For riches are not given in order to be acquired—nor do they want to boast of their goodness,—prosperity is the characteristic of true goodness, and personal abundance is the precondition of generosity. <282> The weakness of the herd produces a morality very much like that of the decadent.They're tacit, they form gangs (big decadent religions are always backed by herds).There is nothing morbid in the herd, and the herd itself is immeasurable; however, the herd cannot decide where it will go, and it cannot be separated from its "shepherd"—priests understand this...the country does not know itself, Not intimate enough; the state cannot "direct the conscience".By what means did the priests sicken the herd?

<974> Every fact, every work gives every age and every new man a new conviction.History always tells novel truths. <613> The competition of various passions in the heart, in the end, one passion dominates the reason. <769> Every living organism spreads as far as its powers will allow, and subjugates all weaklings.In this way it discovers the joy of its own existence.The rising "humanization" in this respect is manifested in the beginning to feel more clearly how difficult it is to truly assimilate others.Just as we may show our strength by violent offenses, we at the same time make the will of others more alienated from us—that is, more difficult to bend.