The Will to Power

PREFACE
BOOK ONE: EUROPEAN NIHILISM
I. NIHILISM
II. HISTORY OF EUROPEAN NIHILISM
BOOK TWO: CRITIQUE OF THE HIGHEST VALUES HITHERTO
I. CRITIQUE OF RELIGION
1. Genesis of Religions
2. History of Christianity
3. Christian Ideals
II. CRITIQUE OF MORALITY
1. Origin of Moral Valuations
2. The Herd
3. General Remarks on Morality
4. How Virtue Is Made to Dominate
5. The Moral Ideal
A. Critique of Ideals
B. Critique of the "Good Man," the Saint, etc.
C. Disparagement of the So-Called Evil Qualities
D. Critique of the Words: Improvement, Perfecting, Elevation
6. Further Considerations for a Critique of Morality
III. CRITIQUE OF PHILOSOPHY
1. General Observations
2. Critique of Greek Philosophy
3. Truth and Error of Philosophers
4. Further Considerations for a Critique of Philosophy
BOOK THREE: PRINCIPLES OF A NEW EVALUATION
I. THE WILL TO POWER AS KNOWLEDGE
1. Method of Inquiry
2. The Epistemological Starting Point
3. Belief in the "Ego." The Subject
4. Biology of the Drive to Knowledge Perspectivism
5. Origin of Reason and Logic
6. Consciousness
7. Judgment. True-False
8. Against Causalism
9. Thing-in-Itself and Appearance
10. Metaphysical Need
11. Biological Value of Knowledge
12. Science
II. THE WILL TO POWER IN NATURE
1. The Mechanistic Interpretation of the World
2. The Will to Power as Life
A. The Organic Process
B. Man
3. Theory of the Will to Power and of Values
III. THE WILL TO POWER AS SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUAL
1. Society and State
2. The Individual
IV. THE WILL TO POWER AS ART
BOOK FOUR: DISCIPLINE AND BREEDING
I. ORDER OF RANK
1. The Doctrine of Order of Rank
2. The Strong and the Weak
3. The Noble Man
4. The Masters of the Earth
5. The Great Human Being
6. The Highest Man as Legislator of the Future
II. DIONYSUS
III. THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE
Appendix: Commentary on the Facsimiles