stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss.
A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.
from Thus Spake Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.
from Thus Spake Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Vastaukset 4
Vanhimmat
to do with evolution. You stupid asshole.
to do with evolution at this time and place,u retarded imbesile,WAKE UP!
the noble art of inanity to dizzy heights.
The superiority Nietzsche was talking about just isn't something that has evolved to higher levels through evolution. The difference between Übermensch and other human beings isn't evolutionary one.
that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?"
"All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.
– Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, §3, trans. Walter Kaufmann
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyMRi3sg9Qc
“Man is a tool-making animal.”
Benjamin Franklin
Transhumanism
Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities. The movement regards aspects of the human condition, such as disability, suffering, disease, aging, and involuntary death as unnecessary and undesirable. Transhumanists look to biotechnologies and other emerging technologies for these purposes. Dangers, as well as benefits, are also of concern to the transhumanist movement.[1]
The term "transhumanism" is symbolized by H or h and is often used as a synonym for "human enhancement".[2] Although the first known use of the term dates from 1957, the contemporary meaning is a product of the 1980s when futurists in the United States began to organize what has since grown into the transhumanist movement. Transhumanist thinkers predict that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label "posthuman".[1] Transhumanism is therefore sometimes referred to as "posthumanism" or a form of transformational activism influenced by posthumanist ideals.[3]
Transhumanist foresight of a transformed future humanity has attracted many supporters and detractors from a wide range of perspectives. Transhumanism has been described by one critic, Francis Fukuyama, as the world's most dangerous idea,[4] while one proponent, Ronald Bailey, counters that it is the "movement that epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative, and idealistic aspirations of humanity
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