Continental Philosophy Lecture 8: Nietzsche and the Übermensch
Nov 19, 2021
This podcast examines Nietzsche's concept of the übermensch and its relation to amor fati, optimistic fatalism, morality, and fate. It explores the significance of understanding historicality in overcoming nihilism, discusses Nietzsche's views on happiness and self-preservation, critiques obedience and the status quo, and delves into his philosophy of love, labor, and the role of self-overcoming in shaping humanity's future.
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Humanity As Becoming
- Nietzsche's Übermensch names a future-oriented process rather than a finished type.
- The human must be understood as becoming, not as a fixed essence, to overcome nihilism.
Not A Type But An Event
- The Übermensch resists classification and quantification and functions as a transitional event.
- We are bridges between past and future, constituted by dispositions and actions rather than fixed traits.
Will To Power And Historicity
- Will to power frames humans as temporal, striving agents whose identity is enacted by action.
- Seeing ourselves as actions contests metaphysical nihilism and affirms historicity.