Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:56:42 -0800 (PST)
From: callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com (Steven E. Callihan)
Subject: Re: Nietzsche on Mill and Darwin -Reply


Kelly Timothy Lynch wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Evan Leeson wrote:
>
>> This is one of the more illuminating and interesting points Nietzsche makes
>> on this topic and I include it merely to spur on this discussion:
>> "Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of
>> self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of the organic being. A living
>> thing seeks above all to discharge its strength - life itself is will to
>> power;  self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent
>> results."
>>
>> Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (trans.: Walter Kaufmann), New York:
>> Vintage Books (1989), p. 21
>
>Aha!  I just saw this after sending out the other message you
>will be reading!  THIS is the very passage I begin with!
>(See my other post)  (The whole #13 actually includes a
>reference to the "Inkonsequenz Spinozas"--my title....)
>

One slant would be to simply see life as an economy. Every economy possesses
expenditure as its base requisite if it is to be at all. Will to power is
expenditure.

Best,

Steve
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