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Nietzsche desires the positive, active affirmation of life. He speaks of the will to power and the Dionysian love of life. When observing hostile and suspicious attitudes toward power and those who desire it he says, "this represents a failure to recognize the essence of life, its will to power... whose action precedes 'adaptation'..."(59).

I find seductive this idea of positive action to affirm life, to make life lovable, though I do not share the same reverence for power as Nietzsche. It's horrific abuses are too salient. Still, I find this ambition to passionately love life invigorating. The fact that Nietzsche insists upon this positive life-affirming action which "precedes 'adaptation'" and at the same time the non-existence of free will shows how radical a thinker he was.

From The Genealogy of Morals: "That so daring, so disastrous invention of the philosophers... the invention of 'free will'..."(50).

Do you think it is easier to engage in positive, life-affirming action when you believe in free will?
Do you think not believing in free will makes this ambition more difficult?
Is a false belief worth having if it enhances your joy in life?

Is a false belief worth having if it enhances your joy in life?

Marianne wrote: "Is a false belief worth having if it enhances your joy in life?"

Not for me, but I don't regard free will as a false belief. See my post 3 here.