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Friedrich Nietzsche, Ed. Walter Kaufmann, Transl. R.J. Hollingdale

The Will to Power

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1901

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Index of Terms

Decadent

Someone who suffers from life. Can also apply to groups of people and religions. For example, Christianity, for Nietzsche, is a “decadent” religion.

Dionysus

Ancient Greek god of wine, fertility, and intoxication. For Nietzsche, Dionysus is a symbol of the endless becoming of existence, and “Dionysian wisdom” is the ability to accept and affirm change and suffering.

Eternal Recurrence of the Same

“Eternal recurrence” is Nietzsche’s concept that time has no beginning and no end and that everything which has happened will happen again an infinite number of times. The ability to affirm life in the face of this idea distinguishes true higher types from all other humans.

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