However, in that Nietzsche grasps his own thinking (the doctrine of the will to power as the principle of the new dispensation of value in the sense of the actual completion of ruhilism, he no longer un derstands nihilism only negatively as the devaluation of the highest values, but rather also positively, as the overcoming of nihilism; for the reality of what is real as that reality is now explicitly experienced, the will to power, has become the origin and measure of a new dispensation of values.