The Will to Power: Nietzsche's central notion re-thought

  Nietzsche considered the Will to Power to be the fundamental force determining human action. It's active, not reactive, strong in the masters of morality, weak in the slaves. Slave morality is in fact fueled by a reactive will to power. Will to Power is ubiquitous. 

This will may well be universal, but it is not a positive force, and its victory is never a victory of real strength. It's not far if it is any distance at all from the Christian notion of sin, the original sin as recorded in the myth of Adam and Eve. It is that which must be overcome through endless struggle to escape indulgence in ignorance and the glomming onto whatever whatever makes my life easy at the expense of others. It is not a will to power; it is an impulse to power. Will is precisely what it does not have or involve. Will is what is required to keep it in check.