For Rüdiger Safranski,
the Übermensch represents
a superior biological type
achieved through artificial
selection and at the same
time it is also an ideal
for anyone who is a creative
***** and strong enough
to master the full spectrum
of human potential, the fine
****** and the "bad"; to
become an "artist-tyrant".

In Ecce ****, Nietzsche
vehemently denied
any idealist, democratic
or humanitarian interpretation
of Übermensch: "The word
Übermensch designates a type
of supreme achievement,
unlike 'modern' men, 'good'
men, Christians and others
nihilists ... When he whispered
in my ear, that some people
who were looking for a Cesare
Borgia better than a Parsifal,
they did not believe in their ears.

"Safranski argues [of course he does]
that the combination of the ruthless
warrior prostitutes of pride and the
artistic brilliance that defined
the Renaissance in Italy
embodied the meaning
of Übermensch to Nietzsche.
According to Safranski, Nietzsche
wanted the ultra-aristocratic figure
of the Übermensch to serve
as a Machiavellian ghost of modern
middle-class Western ******
and their egalitarian pseudo-Christian value system.

The last German: Letzter Mensch;
is a term used by the philosopher Friedrich
Nietzsche in So he spoke with Zarathustra.

****** describe the antithesis
of their imagined higher self, the Übermensch,
whose imminent appearance is announced
by Zarathustra. The last man is tired of life,
does not take risks and only seeks comfort and security.
The first appearance of the last man
is in "The Prologue of Zarathustra."
According to Nietzsche, the last man
is the goal that the ****** of modern
society and Western civilization have apparently established.

After trying, unsuccessfully,
to get the population to accept
the Übermensch as the goal
of society, Zarathustra confronts
them with such an unpleasant
goal that he assumes that they
will rebel against him. Zarathustra
fails in this attempt and instead
of repelling the ******
and manipulating the population
to pursue the goal of Übermensch,
the population takes Zarathustra
literally and chooses the "disgusting"
goal of becoming the last men.

This decision leaves Zarathustra
disillusioned, alone with the ******
and disappointed. The lives
of the last men are as pacifists
comfortable with ******.
There is no longer a distinction
between governing and governed
******, strong over weak
or supreme over mediocre ones.
Social conflicts, ****** and
challenges are minimized.

Each individual lives equally among
****** and in "superficial" harmony.

There are no trends or original
or flourishing social ideas. Individual
****** and creativity are repressed.

Nietzsche warned that the society
of the last man could be too sterile
and decadent to support the growth
of healthy human life or of great individuals.

The last man is only possible
if humanity has raised an apathetic
person or ethnic group that cannot
dream, that is not willing to take risks,
simply earns the lives of ****** and
stays warm. The society of the last man
is antithetical to the theoretical will of
Nietzsche's power; the main driving
force of ****** and the ambition behind
human nature, according to Nietzsche,
as well as all life in the universe.

The last man, predicted Nietzsche,
would be an answer to the problem
of nihilism; but the full implication
of God's death has yet to be developed:

"The event itself is too big and
far from the ability of the crowd
to understand; even to think that
their news has already arrived."