Nietzsche's 'Übermensch' isn't a superhero — it's a self-creator
In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche describes the Übermensch ('overman') as someone who creates their own values after recognizing that no God or cosmic order will hand them any. It's less a biological ideal than a challenge: stop borrowing your sense of right and wrong from elsewhere, and start authoring it yourself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra — 1883-1885
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