Single Idea 20135

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch]

Full Idea

The 'superman' has received far more attention from commentators than it warrants: the higher type of human being (a Goethe or a Nietzsche) is much more important than the hyperbolic, and often obscure, Zarathustrian rhetoric about the über-mensch.

Gist of Idea

Nietzsche's higher type of man is much more important than the idealised 'superman'

Source

report of Friedrich Nietzsche (Works (refs to 8 vol Colli and Montinari) [1885]) by Brian Leiter - Nietzsche On Morality 4 'Higher' n2

Book Reference

Leiter,Brian: 'Nietzsche On Morality (2nd Edn)' [Routledge 2015], p.93


A Reaction

Leiter says the über-mensch idea almost entirely drops out of Nietzsche's mature work.