The aim of Heidegger's Nietzsche-interpretation¹ is to think the Nietzschean Philosophy as the consummation of Metaphysics.² Nietzsche's Philosophy, that is, this specific manifestation of Being as beingness³ as the Will to Power, deserves a privileged place in much the same way and with as much justification as Plato (the "Beginn" of traditional Metaphysics) and Descartes (the "Beginning" of the "Consummation"). What constitutes this distinction and how this is to be understood will be the task of the present chapter.