This paper aims to compare the ideas of German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and Indian freelance writer Amish Tripathi. Amish’s debut novel “The Immortals of Meluha” displayed Shiva as a Tibetan immigrant who initially by choice become the apple pie for the people o Meluha but eventually in the book he is celebrated as the Mahadev by his deeds and action. After becoming the Neelkanth, he fought for various issues like abolition of Vikrama system, untouchability of Vikrama woman, questioning Maika system and need for the Somras, the drink of Gods. He acts as the ceaseless crusader of evil. He fights battles for a selfless purpose to eradicate evil. Nietzsche, on the other hand, in his book”Thus Spoke Zarathustra” speaks about the need for
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The Ubermensch should be the evolutionary goal of humanity. Nietzsche explains the path to become the Ubermensch one has to undergo three metamorphoses of the spirit. The first stage is the assimilation of the past and the assimilation of knowledge given by the society and tradition. This stage is predominantly about memory and dependence upon the prevailing opinion about the world one lives in. He emphasizes that man is a rope between the ape and the overman. The Ubermensch or the overman should be the ultimate and the best possible evolvement for the human race. Magnus Bernard states:
Nietzsche’s own cautions the Ubermensch has generally been construed as a heroic ideal, as a higher type who must be bred by all-too-humankind, as the great man, the superior individual whose self-perfection-half genius, half saint – place him at a far remote from the mediocrity and stagnation of the crowd, ‘the herd’; he has also been understood as the non conforming immoralist, and as the value legislator whose values express his own authentic self-possession. (The Review of Metaphysics , …show more content…
(The Gay Science, 120)
The concept of “overman”, on the other hand is the full realization of a healthy will to power. The “Overman” is the one who gains complete power over himself, so that he is entirely a creation of his own will. His character, his values, his spirit are all exactly as he was built them to be rather then be influenced by some external factors. In that sense, the “Overman” is totally free and absolutely powerful.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra- Zarathustra’s
The Ubermensch should be the evolutionary goal of humanity. Nietzsche explains the path to become the Ubermensch one has to undergo three metamorphoses of the spirit. The first stage is the assimilation of the past and the assimilation of knowledge given by the society and tradition. This stage is predominantly about memory and dependence upon the prevailing opinion about the world one lives in. He emphasizes that man is a rope between the ape and the overman. The Ubermensch or the overman should be the ultimate and the best possible evolvement for the human race. Magnus Bernard states:
Nietzsche’s own cautions the Ubermensch has generally been construed as a heroic ideal, as a higher type who must be bred by all-too-humankind, as the great man, the superior individual whose self-perfection-half genius, half saint – place him at a far remote from the mediocrity and stagnation of the crowd, ‘the herd’; he has also been understood as the non conforming immoralist, and as the value legislator whose values express his own authentic self-possession. (The Review of Metaphysics , …show more content…
(The Gay Science, 120)
The concept of “overman”, on the other hand is the full realization of a healthy will to power. The “Overman” is the one who gains complete power over himself, so that he is entirely a creation of his own will. His character, his values, his spirit are all exactly as he was built them to be rather then be influenced by some external factors. In that sense, the “Overman” is totally free and absolutely powerful.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra- Zarathustra’s