How To Compare Nietzsche's Will To Power

The driving concept behind Nietzsche’s ideas of how happiness can be achieved, who the ideal person is, and the definition of happiness is his view of reality as the Will to Power. The Will to Power is the idea that there is constant conflict in both culture and nature, and this conflict leads to individuals becoming dominant and therefore happy because of how much they have overcome. The Will to Power leads Nietzsche’s reality to be stratified and horizontal. This allows for the idea of carpe diem because the Will to Power repeats and there is nothing to look forward to because there is no God in his view and his view is highly individualistic. The key to happiness, in the Nietzschian view, is overcoming. The main obstacle to this reality

The Overman is the individual who is the most perfect person with great strength, great intelligence, and great virtue, who has the ability to keep society from falling into “despair and nihilism” (Commentary). Moreover, “the Overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Overman shall be the meaning of the earth” (Zarathustra, 191). Proclaiming that the Overman is so grounded to the earth feeds into Nietzsche’s criticism of Christianity because Christianity claims “otherworldly hopes” that he finds unfeasible and threatening to his view of reality (Zarathustra, 191). The Will to Power is the system in which individuals compete to overcome in the hopes to rise to the top. The artists are the ideal individuals because they are willing to work to overcome their personal hardships to become the best person they can be; they will never be content with a mediocre or average product, they will constantly be achieving higher goals. Though “‘never yet has there be an Overman,’” the artists are those who are preparing for the rise of the Overman