니체의 오버맨: 자기 극복과 궁극적인 인간 진화

### 니체의 오버맨: 자기 극복의 슈퍼맨
* 슈퍼맨이라고도 불리는 **니체의 오버맨**은 자신만의 가치를 창조하고 내세가 아닌 현세에 집중함으로써 허무주의를 극복하는 최고의 인간상을 상징합니다.
* 🐪 오버맨은 <차라투스트라는 이렇게 말했다>에 등장하는 아이의 마지막 변신과 연결되는데, 처음에는 **자유로운 영혼**이 되었다가 **전통을 거부하는 사자**가 되고, 마지막으로 **놀이와 창의성**을 통해 삶을 긍정하는 **아이**가 되어야 합니다.
* 🌍 니체는 슈퍼맨이 **'지구의 의미'**가 되어야 한다고 강조하며 사람들에게 이 삶에 충실하고 다른 세상의 희망을 바라보지 말 것을 촉구합니다.
* 🕊 오버맨은 **야수와 슈퍼맨 사이의 다리**로, 위험한 교차점과 끊임없는 자기 극복의 상태를 상징합니다.
* 💔 순응, 평범함, 편안함의 추구를 대표하는 라스트맨은 **오버맨과 대척점**에 서 있습니다.
* ⚡ 영원한 귀환, 즉 자신의 삶이 무한히 반복될 것이라는 생각은 **니체가 위대함의 열쇠로 여기는 운명적 사랑, 즉 아모르 파티의 궁극적인 시험대** 역할을 합니다.
* 🧗 의지를 통해 표현되는 자기 극복은 **장애물을 만나고 극복함으로써 진정한 나로 거듭나는 과정**입니다.
* 📜 니체의 초인, 영원한 귀환, 권력에의 의지 철학은 **전통적인 가치에 대한 대안**을 제시하고 **서구 사회의 허무주의 위기**를 해결하는 것을 목표로 합니다.

오버맨 또는 슈퍼맨은 인간 진화의 정점으로서 자기 극복, 허무주의 극복, 현생에 집중하는 것을 상징합니다.

In Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, there are three main teachings that the wise Zarathustra has to offer: the will to power, the eternal return, and the overman. We have explored the ideas of the will to power and the eternal return in depth in previous videos. Now, we will do the same here with the overman. Let's start with the word itself, overman. The first English translation rendered it as Beyond-Man, and later it was named Superman, however, this led to its mistaken identification with the comic book character Superman. It has also been called the superhuman and the over-man. Walter Kaufmann, one of the most important Nietzschean scholars, explains that the closest translation to the German term is superman. We will use this term, although it can also be used in its original German form. Nietzsche was a great admirer of Emerson. He wrote in his notes: Emerson. - I had never felt so comfortable in a book and in my home, as - I may not praise it, it is too close to me. Emerson had coined the term The Over-Soul (the title of one of his essays), which may have influenced Nietzsche's choice of the term overman, making the translation superman doubly appropriate. Nietzsche had translated the original English word over-soul as the over-soul, which may have also influenced his

However, he had spoken of free spirits, which will evolve in his later works to the wise Zarathustra, who paves the way for the overman. In one of his early books, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Nietzsche dedicates it to the free spirits that did not yet exist but he saw slowly coming. He spent time with these imagined free spirits to be in good spirits amidst illness, isolation, and inactivity, to chat and laugh. The free spirit challenges conventional ways of life and promotes society's growth. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the overman is linked to the final metamorphosis of the child. Nietzsche tells us that there are three metamorphoses for self-overcoming: the camel, the lion, and the child. However, not everyone can become a camel. First, one must become a free spirit and be willing to step out of their comfort zone to carry heavy burdens and sacrifice. Degrade oneself to wound pride, let madness shine to mock wisdom. In other words, Nietzsche suggests that when we feel proud of ourselves, we must take on even more weight to prove that we are not that great after all; we must be humble. The lion is the next transformation, the one who desires to assume freedom and must utter the Sacred No to all traditions and rules that previously kept him chained.

The final transformation, characterized by play and creativity, is the child. Having uttered the Sacred No to reject everything before, the child shouts the Sacred Yes that affirms life. It is a new beginning, without any burden or spirit of heaviness. After achieving the final metamorphosis, one can become who they are. The child's mind is one that is immersed in the moment, full of wonder and joy, giving way to pure creativity; one can create their own values and reality, one can now become a superman. The superman is the supreme form of man, someone who surpasses nihilism by creating their own values and focusing on this life, not on the afterlife. They put all their faith in themselves as autonomous creators and trust in nothing else. It is the pinnacle of self-overcoming, rising above human norms and all difficulties, embracing whatever life brings. It is someone who surpasses mediocrity and is not afraid to live dangerously. The superman will be the meaning of the earth. Owning oneself is the most difficult of all tasks and requires the greatest increase in power over oneself, not over others. This is related to their concept of the will to power, which symbolizes self-overcoming. Happiness is the feeling of increasing power, of overcoming resistance. The superman will thus be the happiest man and, as such, the meaning and the

Justification of existence. The first appearance of the overman does not occur for the first time in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, as many believe. Nietzsche actually mentions it once in an aphorism from The Gay Science: The invention of gods, heroes, and overmen of all kinds, as well as of near and sub-men, dwarfs, fairies, centaurs, satyrs, demons, and devils was the invaluable preliminary exercise for the justification of selfishness and the sovereignty of the individual: the freedom granted to a god in his relation to other gods, which ultimately is also granted to oneself in relation to laws, customs, and neighbors. The survivors of this aphorism seem to be the gods, demigods, and heroes of the ancient Greeks. For Nietzsche, these overmen appear as symbols of the rejection of any conformity to a single norm: antithesis of mediocrity and stagnation. Realizing one's true self means not imagining the self that is deeply hidden within you, but rather the self that is immeasurably above you. This aphorism is significant because it contains one of the few references to the overman before Thus Spoke Zarathustra and was written just before that work. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the overman makes his most important public appearance, along with the eternal return and the will to power, which had not been fully developed before Zarath

He arrives in a village, where he meets a crowd gathered in the market square, as it had been announced that a tightrope walker would appear. And Zarathustra spoke to the people: I teach you the Superman. Man is something that must be surpassed. What have you done to overcome him? All beings up to now have created something beyond themselves: and do you want to be the ebb of this great tide and return to the beasts instead of overcoming man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man will be precisely that for the Superman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, man is more ape than any ape. Look, I teach you the Superman. The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth! ... Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should cleanse yourself? Look, I teach you the Superman: it is this lightning, it is this madness.

However, the people do not understand him and burst into laughter. They mistakenly assume that he is the tightrope walker everyone has gathered to see and tell him that he must get to work. But the tightrope walker, who thought the words applied to him, got down to work.

Zarathustra looked at the people and marveled. Then he spoke thus: Man is a rope stretched between the beast and the superman, a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous path, a dangerous looking back, a dangerous trembling, and a stillness. The great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what is charming in man is that he is one who goes beyond and a descent.

The original text in German of Thus Spoke Zarathustra contains a large number of wordplays that are lost in translation. Zarathustra's descent from the mountains as the solitary wanderer symbolizes his descent or Untergang, as he desires to share his wisdom with humanity after staying in solitude for 10 years. However, this descent is also contrasted with one who goes beyond or Übergang, and the overcoming or Überwindung, which evoke the superman or Übermensch. In other words, self-overcoming (Selbstüberwindung) necessarily implies a descent. The superman cannot be dissociated from the concept of overcoming. It is repeated throughout the book that man is something to be overcome, and the man who has overcome himself has become the superman. The crowd still does not understand him; they only laugh at him. They symbolize the opposite of the superman: the Last Man. Those

Those who fight for conformity, those who are all the same and enjoy mediocrity, afraid of doing something too dangerous. They are perfectly happy to be practically the same as everyone else. They believe they have discovered happiness and blink. Zarathustra begins to speak of this Last Man and when he finishes, they shout: Give us this Last Man, Oh Zarathustra - that's how they shouted - turn us into this Last Man! You can keep the Superman! And all the people laughed and shouted. But Zarathustra became sad and said to his heart: They do not understand me: I am not the mouth for these ears. Meanwhile, the crowd is fixed on the tightrope walker who has just reached the middle of his dangerous crossing, symbolizing the progress of humanity between the beast and the superman. Suddenly, a jester emerges behind him and mocks him, finally lets out a scream like a devil and jumps onto the tightrope walker who stands in his way. The latter, seeing his rival triumph in this way, lost his balance, dropped the pole, and fell. Zarathustra hurries to the severely wounded but still alive man: I knew long ago that the devil would make me stumble. Now he is dragging me to hell: are you trying to prevent it? - 'By my honor, friend,' Zarathustra replied,

All that you have spoken of does not exist: there is no Devil or Hell. Your soul will be dead even before your body: therefore, fear nothing anymore! The man looked with distrust. If you are telling the truth, he then said, I leave nothing behind when I leave life. I am not much more than an animal... That's not true, said Zarathustra. You have made danger your vocation, there is nothing to despise in that. Now you perish for your calling: so I will bury you with my own hands. When Zarathustra had said this, the dying man did not respond anymore; but he made a gesture with his hand, as if seeking Zarathustra's hand to thank him. Nietzsche indicates that the tightrope walker who risked his life, contrary to the mediocrity of the last man, had lived an admirable life. In fact, one of the characteristics of the overman is the ability to face danger. I love those who do not know how to live unless their lives are a descent, because they are the ones who are overcoming themselves.
This danger is the bridge to the overman. In one of Nietzsche's most popular phrases, he says: Believe me! - the secret to reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from existence is: to live dangerously!
Nietzsche evokes the figure of man as that of a tightrope walker. In

Human, All Too Human, in which Nietzsche had intended to highlight our animal nature. Human, All Too Human then refers to our true self, and the Overman is the one who has gained self-mastery. When Nietzsche says, The Overman is the meaning of the earth. The Overman shall be the meaning of the earth, he aims to focus attention on this life, instead of devaluing it in favor of an afterlife. I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poison-mixers, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned, of whom the earth is weary: Let them go. Once sin against God was the greatest sin, but God has died, and these sinners died with him. Sinning against the earth is now the most terrible thing, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable above the meaning of the earth. Nietzsche believed that focusing on an afterlife is a symptom of dissatisfaction with life that leads the individual to imagine another world where their vengeance will be fulfilled. This necessitated the invention of an immortal soul separate from the earthly body, leading to the renunciation of the body or asceticism. For Nietzsche, the soul and the body cannot be separated. Nietzsche saw the decline of Christianity in society as devastatingly dangerous, as it

The Parable of the Madman proclaims the death of God. Its proclamation has tragic connotations. Christianity had focused mainly on the afterlife, devaluing this life, as well as on an excessive appreciation of truth and the impossibility of criticizing it. Nietzsche considered that Christianity developed a self-destructive tool that ended up destroying itself, calling it the will of nothing, a will opposed to life, but it is still a will. In other words, man will desire nothingness instead of not desiring anything, yet brought into life a new and more poisonous poison that devalues this life. The death of God symbolizes the opening of the gap of nihilism. He saw humanity facing an unprecedented crisis that would require a transformation or evolution of humanity. The evolution Nietzsche has in mind is more philosophical than physical. It will require a questioning of the entire Western philosophical tradition and a completely different attitude towards life. The origin of the crisis for Nietzsche lies in the longing for the beyond, the desire that has shaped Western tradition since Socrates to be freed from the prison of the body and earthly existence. In contrast to this longing, Zarathustra emphasizes that one must remain faithful to the earth. Therefore, the greatest evolution of humanity requires overcoming the dualism of mind/body, spirit/nature that has shaped much of Western thought. Nietzsche intended the monumental task of

A Revaluation of All Values, through the Superman, the eternal return, and the will to power. Seeks to offer an alternative to traditional values in the absence of a divine order so that human beings stop looking towards a supernatural realm and focus on this world. The Superman is destined to be the solution to nihilism, by conquering it; it is the meaning we must give to our lives. The Superman overflows with strength and well-being, so much so that he has to give gifts to others. Nietzsche not only refers to the death of Christianity but states at the end of the prologue of Zarathustra that: All gods are dead, now we want the Superman to live - let this be our last will someday at high noon! Nietzsche also speaks of higher men, great human beings who serve as examples of people who would follow his philosophical ideas. Those who use their own legs to rise high and not let themselves be carried by others. Because man must grow to the height where the lightning can strike and shatter him: high enough for the lightning. Nietzsche also calls them free spirits, philosophers of the future, and creative geniuses, those with intellectual consciousness and a sense for art. Nietzsche recommends the artistic lifestyle of which he considers his own life to be an example. Besides being a philosopher, he considers himself among poets and artists. In Part IV of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the wise Zarathustra

Hermits that he committed when he went to men for the first time: he had gone to the market. And when he spoke with everyone, he spoke with no one. Nietzsche does not write for everyone. In fact, the subtitle of Thus Spoke Zarathustra is A Book For Everyone and For No One. He writes for that small percentage of people who are willing to take risks to achieve true satisfaction and happiness in life. You, Superior Men, learn this from me: in the market, no one believes in Superior Men... the crowd blinks and says... there are no Superior Men, we are all equal, man is just man, before God - We are all equal! Before God! But now this God is dead. However, superior men are not supermen; as a result of Zarathustra's instruction, they become aware of their shortcomings. Zarathustra says: They may all be Superior Men... but to me, they are not tall and strong enough. Zarathustra previously stated that: There has never been a superman. Naked, I saw the greatest and the smallest man. They are still too similar to each other. Indeed, even the greatest I found too human. 
The question is simply whether a superior man became truly perfect, or if even he was, in some aspects, too human. This consideration, however, does not affect the interpretation of the overman as the man who has to overcome

of eternal return and will to power. The eternal return implies that you would have to live the same life, with every struggle and every victory, every event and every experience, repeated for eternity. The eternal return was for Nietzsche less an idea than an experience: the supreme experience of a life unusually rich in suffering, pain, and agony. In Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche proclaims that he is the last disciple of the philosopher Dionysus and the master of the eternal return. Superior men, learn this, joy wants eternity. Joy wants the eternity of all things, it wants the profound, it wants deep eternity!

The weak, who can only endure life hoping for a kingdom, power, and glory in another life, would be crushed by this terrifying doctrine of the eternal return, which he considered as the heaviest weight, while the strong would find in it the ultimate incentive to achieve perfection. The eternal return is the ultimate affirmation of life, an eternal repetition of what constitutes existence in the present world. Nietzsche says that one would need the most passionate love of life: ...to desire nothing more fervently than this final confirmation and eternal seal. Self-overcoming is expressed in terms of the will to power. That is, power over oneself, becoming who you are, is manifested in the encounter with obstacles. Both pain and pleasure are inextricably connected, with intense pain comes a feeling of joy worthy

of the gods. This constitutes progress towards the overman, who will ultimately accept the eternal return with great joy, as he is the highest affirmer of life. My formula for the greatness of a human being is amor fati: that one does not want anything to be different, neither forward, nor backward, nor for all eternity. One's character is in constant becoming, while one attempts the seemingly impossible task of reaching for the stars, one aspires to the highest possible goal. This self-overcoming is the concept that unites the will to power, the overman, and the eternal return. It is indeed one of the most important aspects of all of Nietzsche's philosophy.

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니체의 초인 개념은 슈퍼맨으로 번역되며 에머슨의 초자아 사상에 영향을 받았습니다.

오버맨은 자기 극복의 마지막 단계로 낙타, 사자, 아이의 변신을 거쳐 궁극적으로 최고의 인간 형태가 되는 것입니다.

이 개념은 자신만의 가치를 창조하고, 이 삶에 집중하며, 평범함을 뛰어넘고, 삶의 어려움을 포용하는 것을 강조합니다.

자라투스트라가 말하기 전에 오버맨의 우선순위

니체는 이기심과 개인 주권을 정당화하기 위한 서곡으로 신과 영웅을 사용하여 <게이 과학>에서 오버맨을 처음 언급합니다.

오버맨은 순응과 평범함을 뛰어넘어 궁극적인 자아 실현을 상징하는 존재로 묘사됩니다.

'차라투스트라는 이렇게 말했다'에서 오버맨은 대중에게 소개되지만 오해를 받으면서 오버맨과 라스트맨의 대비를 강조합니다.

순응과 오버맨에 대한 니체의 견해

니체는 남들과 똑같이 되기를 갈망하며 순응과 평범함을 추구하는 사람들을 비판하는 한편, 위험과 미지의 세계를 포용하는 '오버맨'의 개념을 이상화합니다.

그의 이야기에 등장하는 줄타기꾼은 평균적인 '라스트맨'에서 예외적인 '오버맨'으로의 전환을 상징하며, 도전에 직면하고 위험하게 사는 것이 중요하다는 점을 강조합니다.

니체의 철학은 진정한 성취와 즐거움은 존재의 위험을 받아들이고 극복하는 데서 나온다는 생각을 중심으로 전개됩니다.

"인간, 너무도 인간적인 것"에 담긴 니체의 사상

니체의 "인간, 너무도 인간적인 것"은 자기 지배의 상징인 오버맨과 땅의 의미에 초점을 맞추고 있습니다.

그는 내세에 대한 초점이 현세에 대한 불만족에서 벗어나기 위한 방편으로 여겨져 기독교의 쇠퇴로 이어졌다고 비판합니다.

니체는 인류가 서양 사상을 형성해온 정신과 육체의 이원론을 극복하고 철학적 진화가 필요한 위기에 직면해 있다고 믿었습니다.

니체는 허무주의에 대한 해결책으로 슈퍼맨을 제시하며 삶의 의미와 전통적 가치의 거부를 상징합니다.

그는 또한 자신의 철학적 사상을 구현하는 사람들의 예로 상위 인간을 언급합니다.

자라투스트라의 가르침은 인간의 단점을 극복할 필요성을 강조하면서 우월한 인간과 슈퍼맨의 개념을 구분합니다.

니체의 영원한 귀환과 권력에 대한 의지 철학

니체의 영원한 회귀 개념은 같은 삶을 영원히 반복적으로 사는 것을 포함하며, 이는 삶에 대한 궁극적인 긍정이자 완벽을 향한 도전으로 여겨집니다.

이 개념은 약자에게는 두려운 것이지만 강자에게는 장애물을 극복하고 열정을 가지고 삶을 받아들이도록 동기를 부여하는 역할을 합니다.

영원한 귀환은 자신에 대한 힘, 고통과 쾌락의 일치, 그리고 이 개념을 삶의 최고 긍정으로 기꺼이 받아들이는 초인을 향한 진보를 강조하는 권력 의지와 밀접하게 연관되어 있습니다.