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Nietzsche did not believe in the brotherhood of man in and of itself, but he did not rule out that by self-overcoming, a sort of idealized form of human (or race) could come into existence.
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Nietzsche did not believe in the brotherhood of man in and of itself, but he did not rule out that by self-overcoming, a sort of idealized form of human (or race) could come into existence.
Gene Roddenberry | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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The type of self-overcoming suggested by Hartman is most prominently displayed in Percy Shelley's
Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007
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It is a manifesto of personal self-overcoming, and a guidebook for others towards the same revitalizing end.
Friedrich Nietzsche Wicks, Robert 2008
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This amounts to a self-overcoming at the universal level, where not only physical desires are overcome, but where humanly-inherent epistemological dispositions are overcome as well.
Arthur Schopenhauer Wicks, Robert 2007
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If we teachers do not endorse genius and self-overcoming, can we be surprised when our students find their ideal images in TV's latest persona ads?
The recommended daily allowance M-mv 2004
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At the same time, however, he also claimed that rationality possesses capacities of communicative integrity and phenomenological self-overcoming, and, if authentically exercised, it is able to escape its narrowly functional form, to expose itself to new contents beyond its limits and antinomies, and to elaborate new and more cognitively unified conceptual structures.
Karl Jaspers Thornhill, Chris 2006
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His personal philosophy is not unlike Nietzsche's idea of the Übermensch — the "self-overcoming" person who approaches life on his own terms — which the Nazis appropriated and spun to their own Aryan-supremacist ends.
Brotherhood of the Mountain Shoumatoff, Alex 2006
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There is nothing transcendental about it; certainly nothing that would qualify in the sense of self-overcoming.
Transhumanism Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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If we teachers do not endorse genius and self-overcoming, can we be surprised when our students find their ideal images in TV's latest persona ads?
Archive 2004-11-01 M-mv 2004
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