(NN) Nietzsche

The existentialist Nietzsche believed that the "force that motivates all creation is the will to power", as summarized by Pojman. This means that humans run around this planet trying to affirm our power over others and that those who do so successfully will be the ones that survive. This is very similar to Darwin's theory of the fittest where the stronger will always prevail over the weaker. I disagree with this because I feel that those perceived as the "weaker" are not always so and thus prevail despite their weakness. Nietzsche also believed that this process of weeding out the weak was being ruined by religions that supported being weak and humble. These religions, he thought, we ruled by the weak who were jealous of the strong noblemen and trying to prevent the natural process. I disagree with this as well because I see being humble and kind not as a weakness but a strength. As you can see by reading not only this blog but some of my others as well I'm a stronger dis-believer in the idea that humans are split into the weak and the strong.