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From Ape to Man & Beyond

Henrik Schoeneberg contends that our next step is to learn to accept ourselves.

“The overman laughs at man, like man laughs at the ape.” Thus spoke Zarathustra in Frederich Nietzsche’s famous work of the same name when he came down from the mountains to convince humanity of a new and better way to be human.

Zarathustra was right.

Put in cognitive evolutionary terms, Nietzsche’s idea of the Ubermensch or ‘Overman’ is more than just utopian ideology. We have evolved from an unreflective state of being as small furry mammals to eventually become self-reflective Homo sapiens.

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