His superman doesn’t represent a more advanced intelligence but the awareness of self as self overcoming. Self-overcoming is the endless replacement of older values by new values. The new values aren’t ‘better’ than the older ones, they’re just different. — Joshs
My only question is why bother with this overcoming (and endless change) if there are no improvements and no foundational narrative underpinning the 'journey'? — Tom Storm
It is hard at first blush to see how Nietzsche allows for any notion of progress or development, but I suggest that for him one’s previous history of valuations prepares one to move more and more fluidly through new channels of construing, even as one transforms those ‘foundations’ in process. — Joshs
I am not sure that Freddie Mercury was influenced by Nietzsche, — Jack Cummins
Fascinated disgust? — Banno
Isn't it odd that American rock is so...derivative; pale imitations of their British overlords. — Banno
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