The Will to knowledge (n.) has a moral origin.
The Will to knowledge (n.) is the idea that the weapons of reason were forged as elements of the tactics of rule.
The Will to knowledge (n.) can be traced back to a drive to appropriate and conquer; senses, memory and instincts developed in its service.
The Will to knowledge (n.) is the last province of the will to live, between willing and ceasing to will: a bit of purgatory while we scorn life, a bit of Nirvana as the soul nears pure contemplation.
The Will to knowledge (n.) in the philosophers' pretended pure drive after knowledge is dictated by their moral truths and is only apparently independent.