American History

According to Nietzche (n.d.), fear is the emotion which inspires individuals to hate people who possess power. Usually the powerless are easily oppressed which leads them to fear the person in power however, it is stated that people who fear will eventually dare  to reverse things and hang on to that with the teeth of the most profound hatred  (Nietzche, n.d.) In a sense, it is argued that people who possess power may be feared, but this fear can eventually evolve into hatred because it is possible that one will hate that which he fears.

The relation of fear to power, then, is that the fear of those who fear the powerful lead to the concept of hatred. Hatred, also referred to as the  hatred of the powerless  (Neitzche, n.d.) is said to be manifested by those whom are poor, the suffering, and the powerless towards those who possess power. Since the powerful is inclined to oppress the powerless, it is not out of the question that the powerless will come to fear and eventually hate those who possess power. In fact, it is even implied that because the powerless fear and hate those who possess power, they would even go to the length of declaring that those who are powerful and privileged are  for all eternity the evil, the cruel, the lecherous, the insatiable and the godless  (Neitzche, n.d). It is then, safe to say that power causes people to first fear then hate the one who possesses power.

In a nutshell, Neitzche does not directly relate fear to power, nor does he state that power and fear always go together. However, he has implied through his text that there is an indirect connection between fear and power, and that connection is hatred. It is likely that Neitzche perceives that fear of a someone or something can cause the one who fears to eventually despise the individual or the thing for it brings upon him the unwanted emotion of fear.