Once we break away from a fear of God we are free to pursue our own morality. The Superman, or Overman, or Ubermench is a man who has seen past slave morality and master morality and makes his own morality.
That's what I get from Nietzche's concept of the Superman.
He was speaking about restraints of religion in the time he wrote.
The Nazis got a hold of this and twisted it into something that confirmed their warped eugenics based view of white superiority.
Siegel and Schuster liked the name so much, they used it for the character they dreamed up.
But I think that it's fair to say that Nietzche, who was writing decades before rock and roll came on the scene and did not have anything close to the concept around him, he had to invent a word (Ubermench) to describe a state of mind that folks like Elvis, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Roger Waters, and Bono later acheived.
2007-05-24
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