Nietzsche Beyond Good And Evil Analysis

In Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche talks about will to power. Before talking about the will to power, one must understand power itself. What is power? Power can be interpreted in different ways. Power can be interpreted in making a person do what one wants even if the person will not in any way be subjected. Today in international relations, power is what make international relations. According to Nietzsche, the will to power is the main focus for humans. Everyone wants power for different reasons. One reason is to be the leader of a country or another reason is so their name will live on. Today most people want to achieve the most powerful position in the world and that is being the President of the United States of America. The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the world because of many reasons. One reason is because the President of the United States is the only leader of a country that is a superpower. Other countries around the world according to international relations, are great powers but none of them can be a superpower.

According to Nietzsche, our will to power is our reality.

Here Nietzsche says: “Let us assume that nothing is ‘given’ as real except our world of desires and passions, that we cannot step down or step up to any kind of ‘reality’ except the reality of our drives-for thinking is nothing but the interrelation and interaction of our drives” (Nietzsche, pg.290).

There is no denying it because everyone wants power. When men get power, it usually leads to pain. Here Nietzsche says, “The discipline of suffering, of suffering in the great sense: don’t you know that all the heightening of man’s powers has been created by only this discipline” (Nietzsche, pg.291). An example would be Adolf Hitler because when Hitler assume power in Germany, the Jewish people faced harsh discrimination and treatments. Power can lead to pain and