primal will

How the 'Primal Will' evolves in Thus Spoke Zarathustra This principle of life remains throughout Nietzsche's writings. Although he will later criticize virtually all of Schopenhauer's contributions as being either "pessimistic" or still under the sway of the Christian Moral Ideal, his initial conception of the will as primal becoming sustains itself into the later writings. To use the language of the *Nachlass*: Becoming equals the shifting combinations of varying configurations of "power constellations" interconnected …

…theory and to see how this theory itself is a function of interpretation and valuation. To see this is to see the relation between the theory of will to power and the notion of will to power. Thus our procedure will be first to discuss the theory of will to power as it is presented in the *Nachlass* and then to discuss the notion of will to power as it is presented in the *Nachlass*.