The Husserlian Will to Power : 'I Can Do Whatever I Want'
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10746-021-09607-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10746-021-09607-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Husserlian Will to Power : 'I Can Do Whatever I Want'
Original language description
It is common to experience hostile emotions like frustration, anger and hate in our everyday life. It could be sufficient a mere hindrance obstructing the pursuit of our goals to lead us thinking and justifying alternative actions to our original aim, in a manner that can redirect us to obtaining a disvalue, instead of realising the purpose of good will of our initial intention. Normally, we are unaware of this shift because the emotional process is the only perceived phenomenon. This situation often contributes in a negative way to the escalation of frustration to anger, and even beyond that, to hate. Implying the phenomenological concept of will to power (Wille zur Macht) that is described by Edmund Husserl in his manuscript A VI 8 I, this article philosophically analyses the process of escalation. In addition to the psychological perspective, which shows the personal motivations of hostile emotions, philosophy helps to discover the structural reasons for such irrational uprising. The article presents this topic from the following steps (1) the psychological description of frustration, anger and hate; (2) providing contemporary instances as a showcase for these hostile emotions; (3) discussing Husserl's argument on the will to power; (4) describing the notion of power and its motivation and (5) showing its connection to realpolitik, where we can easily trace some extreme examples of power and negative emotions in narcissistic behaviors. Significantly, the overarching purpose of this investigation is to delineate the will to power as the underlying principle of experiencing hostile emotions like frustration, anger and hate. Then, the article discusses how the escalation of these hostile emotions alters our goals and values from something that we freely wanted, to something that the blind power unreasonably desired.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Human Studies
ISSN
0163-8548
e-ISSN
1572-851X
Volume of the periodical
Neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
45
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
93-118
UT code for WoS article
000703391800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85116360783