Nietzschean philosophy + belief?
Will to power; “Kraft (force) and Macht (power).[2] Kraft is primordial strength that may be exercised by anything possessing it, while Macht is, within Nietzsche’s philosophy, closely tied to sublimation and “self-overcoming”, the conscious channelling of Kraft for creative purposes”.
I can perceive a force in the world that drives us, it’s >impression< to me is that on an inner level the force is metaphorically like any force out there in the universe, in that it doesn’t have its own driving force or factor. Anyone from the Beatles, Jesus, Buddha, davinci to Hitler can tap into it, that is, anyone et al can tap into it and whatever their drives are, those things will be amplified.
The imprint i get from Nietzschean philosophy and many philosophers who are into him, is of a driving force in Nietzschean philosophy comparable to theirs in some ways, though naturally we are all individuals so there will be great variance ~ and this is an ‘impression’. My point though, is asking if this is a belief? Will to power evokes an idea of ‘self to more power’, or otherwise why would you need to be thinking that!? If people didn’t have the >belief< ‘to gain greater power’ , which goes much wider in the world and history than Nietzschean philosophy, then the world would have been and would be, a more balanced and pleasant place to exist in.
Mostly though, i think a belief is like a seed in the mind, to wit ones intellectual processes and cycles defer. You will return to the respective ways of thinking as your minds perception follows the returning circle or cycle of thoughts. Is this not a kind of trap or restriction upon the soul and one which has plagued man since the dawn of man?
A belief ~ any belief, is a thought system which governs ones mental patterns in some measure:
‘an unbound freedom is greater than the freedom bound by its even it’s own cycles’
Are you a believer?
Or in contradiction to the above; once we see it, can we take ourselves outside of that ‘image’ [The collection of patterns and cycles in the mind] as if to look upon it i.e. The observer is always subjective to the object. So where the perception is projected onto a thing, it is no longer mastered by that thing. This because by definition of the act of separation included in the action of becoming the subjective observer. However, if the mind is often returned ~ brought into the sphere of said image, then perhaps that is a virtual or partial enslavement? Depends really if you have beliefs doesn’t it?
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