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Famous Philosophers/Philosophical works that deal with Competition?
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Nietzsche wrote a lot about what could be considered competition to some extent. A lot of his morality/ontology (not sure which you’d consider it tbh) is based around the concept that life is will, specifically the Will the Power. This means very roughly that the driving force in life is to maximize its potential as much as possible. Since different wills conflict, there is “competition” in nearly everything (including the human psyche). 

For example, in section 14 of the Gay Science he writes “Our pleasure in ourselves tries to maintain itself by again and again changing something new into ourselves; that is what possession means. To become tired of some possession means tiring of ourselves. When we see somebody suffer, we like to exploit this opportunity to take possession of him; those who become his benefactors and pity him, for example, do this and call the lust for a new position that he awakens in them “love”; and the pleasure they feel is comparable to that aroused by the prospect of a new conquest.” So for Nietzsche, even love is a conquest, which of course requires at least a bit of competition. 

Point being, if you’re looking for a philosopher who’s really into competition, conquest, domination and the like, Nietzsche’s probably your best bet.