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concrete, singular living that makes one be either the Overman or the Cogito. “Willing is not an<br />

act like any other. Willing is the critical and genetic instance <strong>of</strong> all our actions, feelings and<br />

thoughts… What a will wants, depending on its quality, is to affirm or to deny what differs. Only<br />

qualities are ever willed: the heavy, the light…What a will wants is always its own quality and<br />

the quality <strong>of</strong> the corresponding forces” (NP 78). By making this distinction between these two<br />

concrete, singular lives Deleuze hopes to develop an ethics. Deleuze does not just say that the<br />

Overman affirms his own difference and becomes whereas the Cogito denies his own difference<br />

and attempts to be. Deleuze also wants to say that the Overman is ethically better than the<br />

Cogito. In other words, Deleuze also wants to say affirming your own difference and becoming<br />

is ethically better than denying your own difference and being. What allows Deleuze to make<br />

this further argument? In other words, in what does Deleuze’s Nietzschean ethics consist?<br />

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