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and
"
could
namely,
it
and
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science of logicalmethod. Not to assume several kinds of
causality,so long as the attempt to get along with a single
one has not been pushed to its furtherest extent (to absurdity,
if I may be allowed to say so) : that is a morality of
method which one may not repudiate nowadays
"
"from its definition,"as mathematicians say.
The
follows
question
is ultimately whether we really recognise the will as operating,
so
"
whether we believe in the causalityof the will ; if we do
fundamentally our belief in this is just our belief in
causalityitself" we must make the attempt to posit hypotheticallythe
causality of the will as the only causality.
"Will" can naturally only operate on "will"
"
not on
"matter" (not on "nerves," for instance) : in short, the
hypothesis must be hazarded, whether will does not operate
on will wherever "effects" are recognised" and whether all
mechanical action,inasmuch as a power operates therein,is
not just the power of will, the effect of will. Granted,
finally țhat we succeeded in explaining our entire instinctive
life as the development and ramification of one fundamental
form of will
"
the Will to Power, as my
thesis puts it; granted that all organic functions could be
traced back to this Will to Power, and that the solution
of the problem of generation
"
and nutrition
is one problem
also be found therein: one would thus have acquired
the right to define all active force unequivocally as
WiU to Power. The world seen from within, the world defined
and designated according to its "intelligible character"
" it
would simply be "Will to Power," and nothing else.