Happiness And Happiness In Nietzsche's View Of Happiness

Nietzsche has the reputation of being a pessimistic author, what his adepts call realism, because he does not say that happiness does not exist, rather does he explains that it is ephemeral and sudden. His idea of human nature can be summed up with the concept of ‘will to power’, that is a force of domination which all men have in themselves and which pushes them to act. What happiness is for Nietzsche is the satisfaction of this domination instinct. He wrote : « What is happiness?—The feeling that power increases—that resistance is overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency », showing that happiness is a social matter, to the extent that it concerns one’s relation to others. There is something to be understood in Nietzsche’s view of happiness : the fact that it is internal to the human’s nature, and that if it is available to all, only those who embrace their dominant nature can

Be it only the existence of laws and education,both taken for granted, obstruct the possibility of a potential happiness. Laws, by punishing crimes of murder or rape, hampers the good pulsions of domination for Nietzsche. It seems that happiness since the slave revolution (a religious reversal of moral values), consists in the belittling of men, a sort of race to the most humble, the most pious, the more generous, which inherently contradicts a man’s telos in Nietzsche’s view. It seems that if men go to paradise, and thus achieve eternal happiness, it is purely by reducing themselves, and by helping others, which are qualities of the ‘good christian’. Human nature is denied, and today thesis ideals of happiness are taken for granted, internalized to the point that no one ever questions it. A running proverb states that you can only be happy if you make others happy, it would be an absolute antagonism in Nietzsche’s