Introduction

In the quest to live a good life, each of us chooses an ultimate value around which to orient our life. We are going to argue that if we want to maximize our health and fulfillment, the value we should esteem the highest is power. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness, not contentment, but more power. In the book Nietzsche's Values, John Richardson elaborates on what for him is the highest and purest form of power.