13 FEB 2015 by ideonexus
Nietzsche's Ubermensch as a Precursor to Transhumanism
...over a century ago, Nietzsche wrote, in Also Sprach Zarathustra, that the ultimate purpose of humankind was to create a being transcending human abilities, an ubermensch. While ubermensch is often translated into English as “super man”, it is actually much closer to the concept of H . The ubermensch was a person above all weaker beings, an empiricist who gained knowledge from his senses just as H will gain knowledge from trillions of sensors. The ubermensch would not be constrained by rel...Feels like this is pulling more from the philosophy than is supported by the text.
24 JAN 2015 by ideonexus