Single Idea 6869

[catalogued under 23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self]

Full Idea

Nietzsche thinks that the human condition is precisely to overcome itself; we continually remake ourselves.

Gist of Idea

Nietzsche thinks the human condition is to overcome and remake itself

Source

report of Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil [1886]) by Keith Ansell Pearson - Interview with Baggini and Stangroom p.261

Book Reference

Baggini,J/Stangroom,J: 'New British Philosophy' [Routledge 2002], p.261


A Reaction

This is why I think of Nietzsche as a straightforwardly existentialist philosopher. There is a crucial distinction between 'remaking' ourselves and 'realising all our possibilities'. The latter seems right. Which view did Nietzsche take?