Editing Will to power (section)

{{Short description|Philosophical concept}}
{{For|Nietzsche's posthumous manuscript of the same name|The Will to Power (manuscript)}}
{{Other uses|Will to power (disambiguation)}}
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The '''will to power''' ({{langx|de|der Wille zur Macht}}) is a concept in the [[philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche]]. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans. However, the concept was never systematically defined in Nietzsche's work, leaving its interpretation open to debate.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-moral-political/|title=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|chapter=Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy|year=2021|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref> Usage of the term by Nietzsche can be summarized as [[Self-determination theory|self-determination]], the concept of actualizing one's will onto one's self or one's surroundings, and coincides heavily with [[Egoism#Nietzsche|egoism]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Leiter |first=Brian |title=Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy |date=2021 |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/nietzsche-moral-political/ |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |edition=Summer 2021 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |access-date=2022-03-26}}</ref>