Becoming Superman
This video presents very briefly Nietzsche's concept of the Overman or Superman
It is remarkable being here, isn't it because it's in this room that nietzsche wrote one of his most groundbreaking and influential works
This is the place where he first had the ideas about Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Zarathustra is a prophet who comes down the mountain and
He wants to talk to
People in a town about this great event
That God is dead that christianity
with all its certain universal absolute moral values
Is no longer believed in and that the question of what it is to be human
And how one is to live as a human?
Uh needs to be answered anew
But nobody listens to Zarathustra
And one of the mechanisms to deliver that is this difficult concept the Ubermensch the overman or the superman
Who or what exactly is that?
It's easier to say what it is not it's not a biological concept. It's not some kind of superior human race
An Ubermensch is someone who is no longer reliant
on on inauthentic external goals
society gives gives him or her
parents religions
It's someone who is able to commit to goals that you set yourself
You offer humanity goals and Nietzsche thinks it's a terrifyingly difficult task
Because the guidelines are missing there are no blueprints
And whilst you full well know that whatever task you set yourself
Isn't universal isn't good for all
it's nevertheless one you commit yourself to it's one you strive towards the Ubermensch is someone who can
shift
and see that
the responsibility
And the joy of creating life lies not with some transcendent God, but lies within oneself
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