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The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Overman Is the Over Man

Every great individual is not themselves, quote and quote, an over man. As long as we're still human, we are all still small and limited in some manner. The overman is like a flash of something beyond those human limitations. It can only be vaguely, sort of prefigured in any living human figure. This is te, as i've pointed out before, the replacement for god, an nature's religion. And since the overman is infinitely beyond the human its, it's the ever receding horizon towards which we march. So what does it mean to say that one is in the middle of their course between animal and over man?

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