The assessment of the chance of extending
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:56 am
Reason, so the argument, is what distinguishes us from the animals and is divine. For this reason we are worth more than other species, indeed, according to Christianity, Judaism and Islam, human beings and the rest of life belong to two different worlds, human beings having been given the so-called "gift of eternal life". The extent to which deliberation involves awareness however is not as easy to establish as many have supposed. Certainly human beings have a greater degree of self-awareness than other animals. Self-awareness of the significance of their deliberation, that is to say awareness of their own being alive and consequently of the implications of their own power arguably constitutes their humanity.
From an awareness of the possibility of power stems t. This will to power is the will to life, is at the very core of existence itself, human beings differing from other living beings in the ability as a phone number list result of apprehending life of changing their life, of reshaping the world to their will. Collectively we call this our history. Not intelligence, not a replacement of "instinct" (whatever that is exactly) by reason, but an awareness of our history, an awareness that history is, distinguishes us from the animal or the slave.
The power over the external world is extended by tools for hunting for planting, mining, building; but all these activities require social organization. One human individual has less power than each individual in a collectivity. But because the collectivity itself is an accumulation and increase of power, the political question arises of power over the collectivity itself. At this point power is no longer only physical compulsion; it is also psychological impression.
From an awareness of the possibility of power stems t. This will to power is the will to life, is at the very core of existence itself, human beings differing from other living beings in the ability as a phone number list result of apprehending life of changing their life, of reshaping the world to their will. Collectively we call this our history. Not intelligence, not a replacement of "instinct" (whatever that is exactly) by reason, but an awareness of our history, an awareness that history is, distinguishes us from the animal or the slave.
The power over the external world is extended by tools for hunting for planting, mining, building; but all these activities require social organization. One human individual has less power than each individual in a collectivity. But because the collectivity itself is an accumulation and increase of power, the political question arises of power over the collectivity itself. At this point power is no longer only physical compulsion; it is also psychological impression.