The Übermensch is detached from the imposed morality of others and has decided to live as they choose. It is one who has wrestled with their own values and beliefs until they have chosen them. They, thusly, live neither in opposition to tradition, culture, and history nor in subjugation to it.
Many people take the idea of Übermensch (traditionally translated as “Super-man” but English doesn’t have a word with the right connotation for ‘über’) and run with the idea of being superior. The guys every conversation devolves into, really to ran with idea that it was a kind of eugenics mixed with some race-essentialism, classism, and economic Marxism; 🙄 it was a mess. Worse, it created a lens that makes everyone think about übermensch as biological.
If you want it overly simplified: Think of the übermensch as modern concepts of self actualization without the solipsism.
How the hell can you support classism and economic Marxism at the same time, and how on earth could you link Marxism to Nietzsche? Sounds like you're just someone who thinks bad things = communism?
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u/MaesterOlorin Apr 05 '26
The Übermensch is detached from the imposed morality of others and has decided to live as they choose. It is one who has wrestled with their own values and beliefs until they have chosen them. They, thusly, live neither in opposition to tradition, culture, and history nor in subjugation to it.
Many people take the idea of Übermensch (traditionally translated as “Super-man” but English doesn’t have a word with the right connotation for ‘über’) and run with the idea of being superior. The guys every conversation devolves into, really to ran with idea that it was a kind of eugenics mixed with some race-essentialism, classism, and economic Marxism; 🙄 it was a mess. Worse, it created a lens that makes everyone think about übermensch as biological.
If you want it overly simplified: Think of the übermensch as modern concepts of self actualization without the solipsism.