et The Idea of Superman (Nietzsche The Ubermench or the most commonly known as the superman or toe Overman. of Nietzsche’ ethical vision transcends the boundaries of creeds and nationalities, He overcomes human nature itself and maintains a lordly superiority to the normal shackles and conventions of social life. The superman 's considered by Nietzsche to fill the void left by the absence of God. According to Nietzsche, rank is determined by power. “It is quanta power and nothing else whi determines and distinguishes raik individual and he tell h He understands power in the sense of an intrinsic quality of the “I distinguish between a type which represents ascending life and a type which jabwesents decadence, decomposition, weakness, and even if the mediocre united together happens to be powerful. it does not represent ascending life. Yet the mediocre is necessary for a high culture can SuSE on @ broad basis only on a strongly, soundly consolidated iedioerity. In fact from this point of New, Nietzsche welcomes the spread of democracy and socialism, tor they help to create the requisite base of mediocrity.\In a famous passage in the first part of Zarathustra, Nietzsche launches an attack Sgaist the national state, the coldest of all cold monsters and the new idol which sets itself up as an abject of worship and endeavours to reduce all to a common state of mediocrity. But though he condemns the national state trom the point of view, namely as preventing the development of an outstanding individual, he nevertheless end. The mes insists that the mediocre masses are a necessary means to ait mergence of a higher type of man, It is not the mission af the new higher class to lead the s as a shepherd leads his flock but rather it is the mission of tie masses to form the foundati hich the new so called lords of the earth can lead their own life and make possible the emergence of sll hi ype of man. But before this can happen there will come the new barbarian ay Nietzsche cails them who will break the actual dominion of the masses and this will render possible the free development of outstanding individuals, on As a goal to the potentially higher man, Nietzsche offers the my: of a superman, not humanity but uperman is the goal, Man is something which must be surpassed) Ivian is a bridge and not a But this must not be taken to mean that man will evolve into 2 superman by an inevitable process. n is a myth, a goal for the will . Superman is the meaning of the earth. Nietzsche indeed asserts # man is a rope stretched between an animal and superman. thurs a rope over an abyss. But it is not a question of « man evolving into a superman by the process of naiars! selection for the rope might fall into the abyss. Superman cannot came unless the individuals have the courage to transvalue all values, to break the old table of values especially the Christian values and create new values out of their super~ ndant life and power. The new values will give direction and a it were their personification. ab oul to the higher man and superman The superman, according to Nietzsche is not an evolutionary goal or a product of some breeding, he is what we are capable of becoming. The superman is always at odd with the society which seeks to impede him. A separation from society is necessary for self-overcoming. The herd will call ita crime but such a separation is necessary for the realization of selfovercoming and the superman is the one who creates himself and his own ni Nietzsche admires people like Julius Caesar and Napoleon but his superman is not the conquerOr o the powerful person of the state. Indeed if'a person views himself as exercising the popular will, he is still under the sway of obedience and not a true superman, A true lester must be able to lead oneself. The superman has the greatest of characters. nobility in spirit and creates his own values, People like Jutius Caesar and Napoleon are not to be admired for their political victories but because they ereate themselves.Last for power can destroy’ a person who is not truly powerfull, But in superman, power is not lust but a natural overtlow of spirit. The noble person ereates his own values and has no regards for social values, and norms, The superman according to Nietzsche eres his own values as a reaction to the powerful and it is in this sense that the superman is most feasible, The superman is a synthesis of both the master and the slave. Both the master and the slave are incomplete and fragmentary but in opposite ways. The master has a richness of drives but these are relatively few as well as alike and compatible and can easily be synthesized into a personal overall practice. On the other hand the slave's deficiency is just the opposite: he has richness of drives and his drives are many and conflicting and cannot be easily synthesized into a cohesive whole. The superman has a similarity to the master and the slave. He has the slave's richness of drive and the master's ability to organize them into an overall practice. The superman is filled with conflicting drives within but is able to organize them into a cohesive whole, The superman is a very rare person who ean form a wealth of conflicting drives into a system and where they all find expressions. Nietzsche says that the highest human being has the greatest multiplicity of drives and in the relatively greatest sirength that can be endured. In fact where a human being shows itself strong, he finds instinctive drives that force powerfully against one another, The superman is different from the master in his complexity of course. However, the greatest differences follow from this one: the latter's wholeness follows from the prior simplicity and the cohesion of his tribe, a person born and raised in that group will have the drives and instinets that will follow from the group. Iti the group and not the individual member who is really responsible to the “as a simnit yO Lt mbers The master cveates his own values only to the extent that these follow trom his group and not from his own instinctive drives. Although the master can suppress such pressure he does not create it. The superman on the other hand is a person who creates himself and his own vaiues. The superman does not inherit the values from the society but he is what he makes of himself. He suffers in the way that the master aloes not and he experiences conflicting drives within himself to which the naturally harmonious which the master is not subjected to. He is also similar to the slave, but unlike the slave the superman wins through his suffering. Thus, the superman creates himself and his own values. ity OF tie viisice who form. Nietzsche's definition of superman is not clear, and if he were taxed with his failure to give a clear description of superman, Nietzsche might reply that as the superman does not yet exist, he can hardly be expected to supply a clear description at the same time. If the idea is to act as a stimulus and a goal, it must possess some content and we can perhaps say that development and integration of intellectual power, strength of character and will, independence, passion, taste and physique are the qualities of the superman,