Life itself is literally a matter of power

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Deliberate" being here used to refer to a chosen exercise of power, a power exercised by life to maintain, defend or extend itself by the use of power. Since all maintenance of life ultimately presupposes the enforcement of certain chemical conditions, and the abandonment of life an inability or a refusal to maintain such enforcement, Death is the abandonment or loss of the will to maintain an identity (matter of power) against the forces of disintegration. Life is the power of an entity to maintain itself against disintegration and the will to reproduce itself through some scheme of reproduction.

The life of a being, any living being at all, in time and space, constitutes the will to maintain its identity, its individual existence. The triumph of one existence over another is the act of devouring, whereby job function email list one life force steals energy from another and extends its power at the expense of another. The other signature of life is the will to self-reproduce, an act which is closely related to the act of feeding. The will to feed and reproduce are commonly accepted as the defining activities of life.

The maintenance of an identity, whether living or not, consists in a maintenance of a relationship of forces in which the identity concerned holds some kind of "power" in the broadest sense of the word. The expression in English, to "lose one's grip" to denote a physical or psychological decline, is especially apt, since "grip" is the condition for a steering, viz. a power over things, an ability to master them. We define ourselves to ourselves and to others as what we are by virtue of our distinction and our distinction consists in there being an area of control which belongs identifiably to us. A "distinguished" man enjoys a prestige which is acknowledged as legitimate by others, this prestige provides access to power. The association of power and prestige is summed up in the Greek word Kudos.