ABSTRACT
Nietzschean evaluations are not simply values; they are the ways of being, the modes of existence of those who evaluate. As noble and powerful, the high-minded called themselves good. In so doing they created good as a value. Looking around at the common and lowly, the high-minded and powerful called them base, thereby signifying a critique of all that is common and plebeian. For Nietzsche, of all philosophers, Heraclitus is the most innocent and most just thinker precisely because Heraclitus was able to think the difference in quantity that generates quality. Since will to power is the differential and genetic element, will to power is, for Nietzsche, what interprets; it estimates the quality of force that gives meaning to a given phenomenon, or event, and it measures the relation of the forces which are present. The upside-down mirror of reactive forces has also contributed to a base interpretation of will to power by means of a base interpretation of desire.
