Ubermensch

beyond good and evil

transvaluation of all values

Friedrich Nietzsche

nihilism

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Superman

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is a daring one [who] is sustained by that on which he expends himself.

Anxiety is there. It is only sleeping. Its breath quivers perpetually through Dasein, only slightly in those who are jittery, imperceptibly in the 'Oh, yes' and the 'Oh, no' of men of affairs... but most readily in the reserved, and most assuredly in those who are basically daring. ..But those daring ones are sustained by that on which they expend themselves (Heidegger 'what is metaphysics')

is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man. Karl Kraus

is beyond reification of the world as distinct objects (such as God or gooseberries), beyond nouns and discrete entities altogether, and therefore beyond God and similar metaphysical illusions.

He thought the very idea of there being distinct objects, such as God or gooseberries, was just a reifying effect of language. He certainly believed this about the individual self, which he saw as no more than a convenient fiction. Perhaps, so he implies in the above remark, there could be a human grammar in which this reifying operation was not possible. Perhaps this will be the language of the future, one spoken by the U bermensch or Meta-man who has got beyond nouns and discrete entities altogether, and therefore beyond God and similar metaphysical illusions. (Eagleton 2007: 6)

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is grounded in the idea that man is something to be surpassed.

Man is something to be surpassed. Friedrich Nietzsche

is not at all about human nature. It is about the being of beings.

The doctrine of he superman, which by its nature can never be an anthropology, belongs, like every metaphysical doctrine of man, among the basic doctrine of every metaphysics... it belongs to the doctrine of the Being of beings. . . When we hazarded here a reference to Nietzsche's thought, and chose his doctrine of the superman, we did not at all propose an attempt to reinterpret, transform and dissolve Netzsche's metaphysics into a doctrine of human nature, into an 'existential anthropology' -as though Nietzsche had inquired only about man, and merely on occasion and incidentally touched on the question of the Being of beings.' (heidegger 'what is called thinking' 79)

is one who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. He is aware of life's terrors and yet he affirms life without resentment.

The overman. . . Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. Friedrich Nietzsche

is one who finds his happiness where others would find only disaster: In being hard with himself and with others, in effort... his delight is self-mastery... asceticism is in him a second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort... their delight is self-mastery... in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct. Friedrich Nietzsche

is one who knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage... whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.

He divines remedies against injuries... he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage... whatever does not kill him makes him stronger Friedrich Nietzsche

ubermensch, n.Definitions

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