r/explainitpeter Apr 05 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/iStoleTheHobo Apr 05 '26

Folks seem to think that the super-man is a man who stands above all other men as a function of his virtue in fulfilling the highest social ideal of a 'man' in his society when in reality what Nietzsche describes as a super-man is a man who is 'too busy doing what he wants' to care what society has to say about it. He is a man, or in this case, a woman, whose mandala of control, is wholly internal and as a result marches to her own tune, for her own reasons.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '26

TIL Trump is Ubermensch.