First of all, I would like to talk about briefly the character Zarathustra for Nietzsche by referring his influential work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The book mainly includes the made-up journey and the philosophical speeches of Zarathustra. The journey starts when Zarathustra was in the age thirty, he left his home and went into the mountains. After his personal experiences in the mountains as a hermit, he wanted to return to humanity to spread the wisdom that he has attained. For many readers, Zarathustra’s journey is not an ordinary journey, Robert Guay writes in his work, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, “As New Testament narrates Jesus’ exemplary life and spiritual journey, Nietzsche’s text narrates Zarathustra’s” (2010, 366). I also agree with him that it’s a journey of the spiritual development and enlightenment in a way that Zarathustra could be concerned as a spiritual leader, mystic or even as a contemporary prophet. If we will have a glance through Nietzsche’s philosophy appearing in the journey of Zarathustra, we can notice that a few themes stand out. The ‘superman’ (Übermensch often translated as overman) is one of the major themes that describes the ultimate state of being in which a self-mastered individual who has achieved his full power.
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Rather, for Heidegger being a teacher -of the eternal recurrence of the same and of the superman- stands for re-creation of culture in new generations. In other words, Therefore, i would like to articulate that Heidegger characterizes Zarathustra as a teacher par excellence where he is the teacher of teachers, teacher of generations, teacher of
Rather, for Heidegger being a teacher -of the eternal recurrence of the same and of the superman- stands for re-creation of culture in new generations. In other words, Therefore, i would like to articulate that Heidegger characterizes Zarathustra as a teacher par excellence where he is the teacher of teachers, teacher of generations, teacher of