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How so? please explain?
I havent read a great deal of Nietzsche, I find him too depressing....
also the fact he was declared insane at the end...as an indication of his worth
but I would be interested in your explanation
Personally I don't feel that somone's mental state is always indicative of their capabilities. Nietzsche was and still is accepted as a genius in the field of philology, and a great
writer.
As a response to your inquiry, I will explain my reasoning:
The Will to Power ("der Wille zur Macht") is representative of the nature of man being that of the attainment of power, which Nietzsche defined by a Darwinian approach. Nietzsche observed in nature the struggle for survival by animals, and felt the same will to achieve ever-growing "power" applied to man as well. Romans 5:19 presents God in a state of Power, as he is meangt to be in the Bible. The notion that God will "have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion," seems to me to be a perfect balance of the Nietzschean Appolonian and Dionysian values: the former is one of order, reason, and action through those (acts of mercy and compassion require, although the Appolonian figure is in a state of power, a sense of rightness and order); the latter is one of pursuit of passion and gratification: We see God in the bible as both a compassionate figure and a figure of immediate malice, jeaqlousy, etc. God has his Power, and he balances his use of it between order and chaos. Appolonian and Dionysian.