Tag: Nietzsche

• May 8, 2015

  Nietzsche on the Life Lived Most Intensely

  Lucy Ferry cogently on Nietzsche: In short, in this [Nietzschean] morality of grandeur, it is intensity that has primacy; the will to power carries the day against all other considerations: “There is nothing to life that has value except the degree of power!” This does not mean that there is no such thing as value.…
• June 3, 2014

  Cheerfulness, tightrope walking, and an amorous rendezvous

  To draw the character of the cheerfully ready person more vividly, I return to Nietzsche’s description of the tightrope walker and the ‘worthy gentleman.’ In one aphorism, Nietzsche distinguishes between non-tightrope walking and tightrope walking situations: ‘To get into only those situations in which illusory virtues are of no use, but in which, like the tightrope-walker…