Thus spoke Zarathustra-First Part- Editor's note
P115
Prologue: Zarathustra speaks of the death of God and proclaims the overman. Faith in God is dead as a matter of cultural fact, and any 'meaning' of life in the sense of a supernatural purpose is gone. Now it is up to man to give his life meaning by raising himself above the animals and the all-too-human. What else is human nature but a euphemism for inertia, cultural conditioning, and what we are before we make something of ourselves? Our so-called human nature is precisely what we should do well to overcome; and the man who has overcome it Zarathustra calls the overman/" superman".
P115 Para 3...Mensch means human being as opposed to animal, and what is called for is not a super-brute but a human being who has created for himself that unique position in the cosmos which the Bible considered his divine birthright. The meaning of life is thus found on earth, in THIS life, not as inevitable out come of evolution, which might well give us the "last man" instead, but in the few human beings who raise themselves above the all-too-human mass.
P116 Para 2 1, on the three metamorphoses: to be come a more than an all-too-human animal man must become a creator. But this involve a break with previous norms. Beethoven, for example, creates new norms with his works. Yet this break is constructive only when accomplished not by one who has previously subjected himself to the discipline of tradition. First come the beast of burden, then the defiant lion, then creation. "Parting from course when it triumphs"
Prologue: Zarathustra speaks of the death of God and proclaims the overman. Faith in God is dead as a matter of cultural fact, and any 'meaning' of life in the sense of a supernatural purpose is gone. Now it is up to man to give his life meaning by raising himself above the animals and the all-too-human. What else is human nature but a euphemism for inertia, cultural conditioning, and what we are before we make something of ourselves? Our so-called human nature is precisely what we should do well to overcome; and the man who has overcome it Zarathustra calls the overman/" superman".
P115 Para 3...Mensch means human being as opposed to animal, and what is called for is not a super-brute but a human being who has created for himself that unique position in the cosmos which the Bible considered his divine birthright. The meaning of life is thus found on earth, in THIS life, not as inevitable out come of evolution, which might well give us the "last man" instead, but in the few human beings who raise themselves above the all-too-human mass.
P116 Para 2 1, on the three metamorphoses: to be come a more than an all-too-human animal man must become a creator. But this involve a break with previous norms. Beethoven, for example, creates new norms with his works. Yet this break is constructive only when accomplished not by one who has previously subjected himself to the discipline of tradition. First come the beast of burden, then the defiant lion, then creation. "Parting from course when it triumphs"
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