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Why You Should Seek Power, Not Happiness – Nietzsche’s Guide to Greatness

Academy of Ideas

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The Meaningless Suffering of Nietzsche's Ethics of Power

The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far. Nietzsche's ethics of power offers a down-to-earth solution to the problem of suffering. If we take power to be the highest human value, then we must also value the resistances that grant us the opportunity to increase our power. Pleasure appears where there is the feeling of power, happiness, in the triumphant consciousness of power and victory.

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