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Merold Westphal: Atheism for Lent

Socrates in the City

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Anichi: The Overman and the Overman

In Zarathustra, Anichi presents the overman as someone whom he is not. And so where Kierkegaard says, I don't say I am a Christian, I'm becoming a Christian,. Anichi says, I'm not the overman, I're becoming the overman. The Germans have just the perfect term for this: Unterweg's. I'm on the way. It's a journey where my existential identity is in continuous process of formation and reformation. Never reaching a fixed point where I'm done and I can just sit back and relax. That would be like saying 'I'm asking a second question, I'm the only one left'

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