freedom of will

is an invention of the ruling class. (1) power free (2) powerless unfree.

he accounts dependence and dullness, independence and the feeling of living as necessarily coupled. Here an experience in the social-political domain has been falsely transferred to the farthest metaphysical domain: in the former the strong man is also the free man... the lively feeling of joy and sorrow, high hope, boldness in desire, powerfulness in hatred is the property of the rulers and the independent, while the subjected man, the slave, lives dull and oppressed. The theory of freedom of will is an invention of the ruling classes. (Nietzsche 'the wanderer and his shadow: pdf)

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freedom of will