Übermensch

human striving, and claims himself to be happy and to always have been. His way of embracing the irrational and deliberately following the visceral life force which goes beyond ethics and reason has got some points in common with that of Nietzsche’s Übermensch. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his ‘Explication of The Stranger’, defined the epiphany of realising the absurd as a ‘state of hopeless lucidity’. In a world in which, metaphorically speaking, God is dead and man is mortal, all moral values…

ostoyevsky’s style gives the reader a full psycho analysis of Raskolnikov, as the reader sees what no one else around him in his world can. From their perspective all they see are his actions, as he is a man of few words, and can’t see the growth from one thought process to another. Raskolnikov is too complex to just be seen as an egotistical sociopath who commits murder. Dostoyevsky begins the novel with most of the first chapter revolving just around an unknown man and him struggling mightily…

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.…

Classification: Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals is a theoretical book that branches into the field of philosophy. Adler writes, “Theoretical books teach you that something is the case. Practical books teach you how to do something you want to do or think you should do” (66). In the case of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche teaches the readers that the priestly sets of morals has reversed the morals of the previous knightly set of morals, and that mankind should revert…

A film that uses very Nietzscheian ideologies such as the death of God, trying to find meaning in life and of course the concept of the Ubermensch. For the purposes of this piece, the only concepts of the film that relate to consumerism, is the concept of the Ubermench and letting go of old values and creating new ones in order to find meaning (existence precedes essence). Like the film expresses…

Desired suffering as we know it, but in the form of transformative cultural rites of passage (coined in 1909 by the Anthologist Gennep) appears mysterious in it universal multiplicities. Ritual combat – such as the bloody, skull shattering club-fights of Aché – persists as a dominant commonality and (in a Western functionalist reading of intelligibility) serves as sort of social function among neighboring clans, tribes and bands for releasing pent-up mental cathexes and aggressive energy. In…

Vonnegut as a Composite of His Experiences, Times, and Philosophies The efforts to simplify motivation into a form following as so a concrete description in writing is a task of both arduous effort and dubious reward. This is due to the fact that such an abstract thing as motivation is a conglomeration of factors rooted in the psyche and the experiences therein. Hence, when attempting to determine with relative certainty the reasons behind a writer 's motivations, it is necessary to gather all…

Matthew Rios Prof. Greenaway SMC 1311 17 November 2017 What is the Self ? Part 1: “The Process of Figuring Things Out” With the task at hand I think an important question to ask is why are we beginning here. Why must we start with “The Process of Figuring out” and to what end did we bask in this concept? I believe it to be the basis of knowledge as it relates to human understanding. As mentioned in Chapter 3 of The Search For Self-Understanding, “human beings have an insatiable desire to grasp…

Nate Gershon Intro to Philosophy Professor Skedzielewski Take a Stand Essay Plato and Nietzsche both are tremendous philosophers and writers in their own right, they both present claims and arguments on topics that some may disagree with. Their premises and conclusions on any topic can end up being viewed subjectively as understandable, probable, or debatable. After concluding each of their books, Plato’s Republic and Genealogy of Morals, claims on topics like the soul, justice,…