Nietzsche
OriginGermany
Era1844
SchoolExistentialism
About Nietzsche
God is dead announced the death of traditional values in modern society. The Ubermensch or overman is his ideal of someone who creates their own values. Declared insane in 1889 and never recovered. His sister edited his unpublished work to support Nazi ideology, which he would have despised. Thus Spoke Zarathustra is his masterpiece.
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