The Will to Power: The notion of Will in Nietzsche's philosophy comes from Schopenhauer. However, Nietzsche reverses the understanding of the Will. Schopenhauer says Nietzsche did not see the will to power as something to be resisted by the individual. Rather Nietzsche affirmed the legitimacy of the will to power and even encouraged its pursuit by the individual. The Will is the source of all evil in the world according to Schopenhauer, but for Nietzsche the will to power is the exuberance of spring, the affirmation of life and the saying of "yes!" Nietzsche says it is the source of man's strength, the permission of the will to enact what it can enact. Nietzsche understood the will to power not to refer to physical force to be used against others, but as a psychical force, which endows the individual with fortitude and triumph over the greatest obstacles of one's life.
The difficulty is that this brings us into conflict with other people and is a will to self-assertion. This in turn leads to inevitable conflict. However, the will has makes a positive contribution to the shaping of the individual when it turns itself inward and destroys within the self all that is weak all that is comfortable, and simply part of a man's self indulgence.
According to Nietzsche, the strong are those who are more complete as human beings, and who have learned to sublimate and control their passions, to channel the will to power into a creative force. In no fashion should Nietzsche be understood as advocated what has been termed a Master morality aimed at abusing the weaker. Quite the contrary. Nietzsche held that the strong had a duty toward the less fortunate writing, "The man of virtue helps the unfortunate but not or almost not out of pity but prompted by an urge which is begotten by the excess of power.
The Ubermensch: The Nietzschean concept of the Superman is difficult to grasp and is frequently very misunderstood. Unfortunately the term was associated with Hitler and Nazism but this meaning of what it means to be the Ubermensch is far from Nietzsche's intention. For Nietzsche, the Ubermensch is the man who can be produced by any civilization of any era. He is the man who lives all that the will to power will give to him. He is the man who lives the will to power to the full or to the maximum.
Unpacking Nietzsche's notion of the superman, it appears that the Philosophers was actually trying to get at what it means to be the unrepressed man, the man who refuses to live his life according to false values. The Ubermensch is a free spirit. He is a man at liberty and who without restricting himself would naturally not do any of the things, which Nietzsche regards as evil, for instance is grudgingness toward another. Rather the superman is a generous spirit.
