Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Übermensch

In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche posits the

I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? [...] All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood, and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is ape to man? A laughingstock or painful embarrassment. And man shall be that to Übermensch: a laughingstock or painful embarrassment. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape...The Übermensch is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the Übermensch shall be the meaning of the earth... Man is a rope, tied between beast and Übermensch—a rope over an abyss...what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end...

Friedrich Nietzsche Professor at Basel (1869–78)

In part because of Ritschl's support, Nietzsche received a remarkable offer to become professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in Swi..

Friedrich Nietzsche's view of Søren Kierkegaard

REDIRECT Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith in the Earth

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Relationship between Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Stirner Circumstantial evidence

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Nietzsche-Archiv Objectives

Elisabeth Förster planned the establishment of a Nietzsche Archive after returning to Germany from Paraguay in the Fall of 1893. The purpose of the arc..