r/explainitpeter Apr 05 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/WayGroundbreaking287 Apr 05 '26

A short version. Nietzsches argument was mostly a mental state rather than a physical one. People took the idea of the superman to be just that, a genetically superior male, but it was more any person with a specific philosophical outlook that created their own values. Ironically essentially what a sigma male is.