Breeding Nietzsche’s Superman

The Most Important Concept in Nietzsche’s Philosophy Is Creating a New Aristocratic Man from the Ashes of God, Transcendence and Mankind Itself

Foreword to the Lecture Series

Today I begin a yearlong series of lectures devoted to what I consider to be the most important tenets of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. Nietzsche has been a central figure of modern philosophy. As a Platonist myself, Nietzsche has exerted a notorious influence in important parts of my particular weltanschauung. It is often believed that Plato is the philosophical nemesis of Nietzsche. This stance is far from true; rather, Nietzsche should be seen as a complete actualization of Platonic thought for the modern man.

The ideas that I’m going to be expounding in this lecture and the following ones are going to certainly be uncomfortable. Reading Nietzsche today is even more challenging and disturbing than it was in his own time, the late nineteenth century. His was a time of nihilistic pessimism — the Spleen de Paris. Our time is nihilistic feel-good rabble. One may ponder the reason for this. The resurgence of censorship against ideas that are essentially different from mainstream and morally aggressive narratives is far more intense today than it was in…