Nietzsche’s Concept of the Superman and the Will to Power
God is Dead: The Dawn of the Superman
God is dead: The death of God opened the way to a sense of the superman of the Earth. The time needed for the gods is over forever. The power and the will of the superman.
Critique of Philosophy
Why did Socrates succeed against life, on Apollo and Dionysus? Plato created another world (the “world of ideas”) that devalued. “Idealism” is a spirit of decay, attacking the main metaphysical concepts: “I” (Descartes), “thing itself” (Kant), “categorical imperative” (Kant). We accept the testimony of the senses. The “will to truth” is nothing but the “will to power”: the truth that serves the defense of life. This is Nietzsche’s perspectivism.
Critique of Morality
In all languages, “good” meant, originally, “the noble and aristocratic,” as opposed to “bad” in a non-moral sense, which was “the simple, vulgar, plebeian.” This transformation was done by Jews and Christians. Morality emerges as a result of resentment. Beyond good and evil, we will recover the primitive innocence that appears in the superman announced by Zarathustra.
Zarathustra
Life is the will to power, and the latter’s desire is to be more, to live more, to pass it, to show an ever-increasing force. In a word, it is the desire to create. “We say that Zarathustra is impelled to overcome himself constantly.” The will to power is a creative will of values and an annihilator of previous values. A new criterion.
Transvaluation: Power signifies the desire to want the power of life to increase. To transvalue means to stop looking at life from the point of view of ideas, moving to consider ideas from the viewpoint of life. It retrieves the meaning of life as creation: We need a moral of gentlemen, affirming life. The truth is life, and as she herself has a provisional nature whatsoever.
The Superman: Expression of the Will to Power
How is man overcome? Through the understanding of the new project from the human will to power: the superman. “Superman” is not a moral concept but a type of event, one who manages to live in a creative and affirmative way. Life as an artwork or an adventure, how will the superman be? This is not something that Nietzsche says. But you cannot get to the superman without having the experience of nihilism and his rejection.
The superman sets a new top rating of life: a moral of gentlemen, who is the man who takes on the role of creator. It is a strong will and power as a guide. A condition for passing to the superman is “the death of God.” God represents the antithesis of life and the denial of man’s innocence. The slave morality of Christianity. The superhuman figure of Zarathustra, who is the prophet, should not be confused with the superman. You must also avoid confusion between the superman and the “last man.” The last person is the frustrated man who wants to die and wants their transmutation. With the death of the last man, we are closer to the superman.
The Great Politics
The triumph of the superman is essential to the great politics. There are no tables of the law for the superman. The superman calls for the future of man, freed of nihilism and therefore of political power. The superman is neither political nor moral, but what occurs when these two nihilistic forms are passed.
“As the spirit becomes a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion, in the end, a boy.” The superman, therefore, has the innocence of a child, is beyond good and evil, and is “the first man,” possessing the power of creating value, faithful to living on Earth. In summary, the superman is the embodiment of everything in Nietzsche’s message.