Philosophy Mid-term on Nietzche Promt: identify a philosophical idea that you think has had the most significant consequences in terms of how it affected later aspects of life.

One philosophical idea that has had significant consequences is Nietzche's idea of "will to power," and of expressing that idea. Nietzche's will to power was his recommendation in the face of a life of lying. Nietzche believed that there is no "pure being"; no gods, no forms, simply no "things". In essence, there is no knowing. One cannot know something, one can only invent it. In doing so, it is lying. Nietzche considered his "will …

…life, and wanted everyone to share in it. I believe he said that God is dead to show people that they should live in the now, enjoy life, and quit wasting life waiting to die to pass on into a world that doesn't exist. Nietzche made a good point when he said that Christianity forces people into a slave morality, because they are constantly doing for God, instead of exercising their own will to power.