Part II, Paper 4 · European Philosophy from Kant

Nietzsche: Morality (b): Will to Power

“Will” can only operate on “will” — and not on “matter” (Nietzsche). Discuss.

Essay of no more than 2,500 words.

Primary sources

• Nietzsche, Friedrich 1886 [2002]. Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Rolf-Peter Horstmann and J. Norman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Especially §36.
• Nietzsche, Friedrich 1887 [2007]. On the Genealogy of Morality, trans. Carol Diethe, ed. K. Ansell-Pearson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Especially II.12.

Secondary sources

• Bailey, Tom 2021. Will to Power: Nietzsche’s Transcendental Idealism. Journal of Nietzsche Studies 52(2): 260–289. DOI
• Hatab, Lawrence J. 2019. The Will to Power, pp. 329–350 in The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Tom Stern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI
• Janaway, Christopher 2007. Will to Power in the Genealogy, pp. 143–162 in Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche’s Genealogy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI

General introductions

• Higgins, Kathleen and Bernd Magnus (eds.) 1996. The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI
• Richardson, John 1996. Nietzsche’s System. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI