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>>9051217
First, Nietzsche talks of the ubermensch almost as a meta human, yet you use the term as a man who manifests his vision of reality out of sheer force of will

i do think that this is a metaphor; nietzsche also has examples of potential overmen that are clearly not alien to our species as such, but alien in their capacities viz. the norm.

ima try to break this down a bit: i would say that nietzsche’s analysis of “rhetoric” should be read as a response to the phenomenon of the final man. contrary to this life-desiccating image, nietzsche obviously posits the possibility of the ubermensch. the ubermensch sees in the death of God the opportunity to exercise his own self-law-making capacity; the ubermensch invents the horizon of its own being, and accepts fully the indefinability of man as a final essence. nietzsche at one point refers to this ubermensch as, among other things, a “poet who does not lie”: where socrates posited an entirely other plane by which to judge the actual world, the ubermensch lives fully and instinctively in the world of appearances and instincts. if socrates killed the sensory experience of man for a narrowing idealism, the overman seems to in part reclaim this total exercise of the self, both intellectual (there is no going back after socrates) and sensorily. the overman creates a morality that is valuable for the ends he has set upon his own life--and the problem of valuation is really key to all this. but the creation of morality is, for Nietzsche, not an act of reason, but rhetoric.

I just can't imagine him happy, I just can't. Help me /lit/

Crime and Punishment