Meaning of Life
June 30, 2011 at 4:15 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2011 at 4:17 am by TheYoungAtheist.)
I would like to make this thread to, in a way, counter my previous thread "Life?" In it I described the meaning of life as being, in a simple sense, nothing. I'm an avid reader of the work's of Friedrich Nietzsche, and in my opinion he gives the most sound and reasonable meaning to life; "The will to power". Here are some quatations from his works involving this idea: "My idea is that every specific body strives to become master over all space and to extend its force (--its will to power) and to thrust back all that resists its extension. But it continually encounters similar efforts on the part of other bodies and ends by coming to an arrangement ("union") with those of them that are sufficiently related to it: thus they then conspire together for power. And the process goes on--"
"[Anything which] is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life."
"[Anything which] is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life."
-Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man. -> Friedrich Nietzsche
