Meanings
plural overpeople
- Synonym of overman.
- Superman.
Nietzche does in fact emphasize again and again that the overperson overcomes him or herself, not others.
2012, Dennis Carlson, Leaving Safe Harbors, →ISBN2 more examples
An overperson is original and therefore alone. Gods do not consort with each other, let alone comfort the rest of us.
1997, Dennis A. Rohatyn, Philosophy History Sophistry, →ISBN, page 133And with the birth of the overperson at the great noontide of the future, humanity is to achieve an atheistic freedom expressed in the wish: “Dead are all the Gods: now do we desire the Superman to live.
2015, Michael York, Pagan Ethics: Paganism as a World Religion, →ISBN, page 123 - Supervisor.
The nation is an overperson imposing its wishes upon individual members, performing acts and receiving allegiance from its citizens.
1964, Samuel Pondipeddi Adinarayan, Social psychology: with special reference to Indian conditions2 more examples
In this process the individual accepts the belief in the entity of the nation as an overperson and the corresponding personification of the out-group nation as a causal agent ( Allport, 1933 ) .
1965, Elton B. McNeil, The nature of human conflict, page 69Short of space, he built a little wine cellar in a linen closet.26 In December 1951 he wrote that the “overperson” was complaining about commotions after 11:00 at night, a time when “normal” people should be asleep.
2017, Robert E. Lerner, Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life, →ISBN, page 334
Origin
- GermanÜbermensch
- Englishoverperson
Calque of German Übermensch, equivalent to over- + person.
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