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Übermensch

In the writings of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the ideal to which humans should aspire, set out in Also sprach Zarathustra/Thus Spake Zarathustra 1883–92. The term was popularized in George Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman 1903.



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He envisioned what he called "poetry" or "scholarship," the realization of the ideal in daily life, as a task for all, and the poet or scholar as a combination of Christ and Uebermensch.
A word about Pierson, who might be described as the Uebermensch of Independentsville.
 
 
 
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