You Read Nietzsche but You Missed This

[Ichthus77 (Ichthus77 (formerly She™))]

@Zeroeth_Nature

@Jakob

Does Nietzsche posit action? No, he acts: he posits that the world is will to power.

Well, that can be disputed. Did he act in any metaphysical sense, or did he just react, undergo, pass on? Is the will to power he posited, or which was posited through him, really an active force (as he says, e.g., in WP 673), or rather a pathos (as he says in WP 635)?

I added something to our previous discussion just now that is so relevant to where this current discussion is going:

Questions re: Nietzsche’s “Genealogy of Morals”

I want to finish the quote from that section. “Oh how fortunate we are, we men of knowledge, provided only that we know how to keep silent long enough!” See also: “our … quiet problem and one which fastidiously directs itself to a few ears” (begining of section 5 of the first essay) … “a silent struggle as a rule” (middle of section 14 in third essay) … “the noble mode of valuation … in respect to the sphere with which it is not sufficiently familiar … gaurded … misunderstands … looking down f…

Is it ironic or uncanny? I can’t decide.