Can the will to value eclipse Nietzsche’s will to power as a principle of life?
The phenomenon of value is not only a crucial principle in activities like morality, meaning and love, but can arguably provide a human objective, in the form of a ‘will to value’ leading to a sufficiency of value. This principle can be compared, or contrasted, to Nietzsche’s notion of the ‘will to power’, reinterpreted by Heidegger as a ‘will to will’, as a prelude to that ‘will to value’. But what is the background of this process, by which one contentious principle of value can lead to an even more contentious objective in the form of a certain adequacy or sufficiency of value? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 2, Scn. viii.

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