Exploring the Enlightenment of Nietzsche's the Will to Power to College Students' Ideological Education

Abstract

Nietzsche is a very controversial but significant philosopher in the history of Western philosophy. He also has his own unique views on moral philosophy. In his later years, he critically inherited Schopenhauer's theory of will, but he did the opposite, criticizing the pessimistic consciousness in Schopenhauer's theory of the will to live, proposing his own the will to power theory, and reassessing all traditional values. On the one hand, he wants to break the traditional moral value judgment and oppose Christian morality. So he must establish a new moral value system, that is, the will to power ethics. The analysis of Nietzsche's thought is not only of great value to the study of ethical thoughts in the new era, but also has a certain enlightening effect on contemporary college students' ideological education.