29 October 2005

Genealogy of the Concept of the 'Will to Power'

In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Ch.11

It seems that Nietzsche was not the first to hit upon the concept of the will to power.

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