Are overman and uberman the same thing?
2006-10-01 21:09:21 · 5 answers · asked by salvador m 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2006-10-01 21:27:07 · update #1
Overman/uberman are the same thing. It's sometimes translated as 'superman' too.
Considering it's one of this most famous ideas, Nietzsche talks surprisingly little about it and it isn't entirely clear from his writings exactly what it means.
It seems to be intimately connected with Nietzsche's idea of the death of God. One of his central ideas is that, in Western culture, the idea of life having 'meaning' is tied to there being a God and an afterlife. So the meaning of life is to serve God, and we deal with death by knowing we go to heaven when we die etc etc.
When Nietzsche said "God is dead" he was lamenting the death of the /idea/ of God. He could see that everyone was stopping believing in God and that atheism was becomg more and more widespread - the problem was, nobody seemed to care. People were just happy being atheists (see "The Gay Science" for the most famous expression of this).
Nietzsche didn't believe in God either, but he recognised that if you get rid of God, you get rid of all the nice, comforting stuff that goes with it and gives life meaning. He predicted that over the coming decades, we would start to see the effects of this - that is, we would see people desperately looking for other sources of meaning in their lives with disastrous results. This is of course exactly what happened - rampant materialism, crazy ideologies (communism, nazism) leading to horrendous wars etc.
Anyway, the overman is presented as a solution to the problem. A kind of Christ-like figure who'll somehow or other give new meaning to people's lives and reinvigorate the human race. Nietzsche seems to think that such a man is inevitable and cites Napoleon as an example of a sort of overman. However, it isn't clear that the overman will be a military leader, or any kind of leader for that matter - Nietzsche also recognises the cultural importance of such figures as Shakespeare and Goethe.
For an example of the influence of the 'overman' idea, look at Hitler - he was into Nietzsche, and clearly saw himself as this overman figure, giving meaning to people's lives with all of his myths about the inherent glory of the Aryan races etc.
Hope this helps, but as I said, this concept doesn't feature heavily in Nietzsche. It's probably one of the things he meant to expand upon but never got the time to (owing to his having gone mad).
2006-10-01 22:16:07 · answer #1 · answered by hosmer_angel 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-01 21:18:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 11:56:14 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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None of it ever made much sense to me. The only concept of god I could buy is if some hyper-dimensional alien created our universe via some kind of experiment, or that we are all part of a simulation being run by such an alien. But I've yet to meet a god advocated by any religion that makes sense to me.
2016-04-10 06:53:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the basic idea is tied to his philosophy of the "eternal recurrance"
that we are to relive our lives eternally...not reincarnation, where we come back in a different form...but exactly our own lives...eternally....
then it is necessary for the [thinking/aware] individual to make the best of himself/his life..the "over" and the "uber" might best be translated as the self over coming man
self advancement...
and the "will to power" is only properly directed at oneself
ultimately, power over oneself
2006-10-01 21:35:51 · answer #6 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋