Meaning & use
ubermenschen
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The plural of Übermensch, Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of an individual who has overcome conventional morality to create their own values.
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Philosophy students debated whether Nietzsche's ubermenschen were meant as literal figures or as a metaphor for self-overcoming.
Critics have argued that later political movements badly distorted Nietzsche's idea of the ubermenschen for their own purposes.
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Borrowed directly from German ('over-man'); English texts often keep the German capitalization and spelling as Übermensch/Übermenschen.
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overmensupermen
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