Nietzsche, the Overhuman, and Transhumanism – Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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Nietzsche, the Overhuman, and Transhumanism – Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

ByAdam Ford

Did Nietzsche have something like Transhumanism in mind when he wrote about the Übermensch? Bostrom rejects Nietzsche as an ancestor of the transhumanist movement, as he claims that there were merely some “surface-level similarities with the Nietzschean vision” (Bostrom 2005a, 4). In contrast to Bostrom, I think that significant similarities between the posthuman and the…

Was Friedrich Nietzsche a Transhumanist? A critique by David Pearce
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Was Friedrich Nietzsche a Transhumanist? A critique by David Pearce

ByAdam Ford

Bioconservatives often quote a line from Nietzsche: “That which does not crush me makes me stronger.” But alas pain often does crush people: physically, emotionally, morally. Chronic, uncontrolled pain tends to make the victim tired, depressed and weaker. True, some people are relatively resistant to physical distress. For example, high testosterone function may make someone…