su|per|man

su|per|man
su|per|man «SOO puhr MAN», noun, plural -men.
1. a man having more than human powers: »

The folk-tale superman really is a superman, a creature of the elements (New York Times).

2. a man imagined by Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, as the ideal human being, achieved by evolution through selection and the elimination of inferior members: »

The idea of attaining a race of “supermen” by eugenical selection of mutations in man depends upon the rate of occurrence of mutations in man (Ogburn and Nimkoff).

╂[translation of German Übermensch (coined by Friedrich W. Nietzsche, 1844-1900) literally, above man]

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