Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a parable of the end of modern civilization. The main character, the prophet Zarathustra, has entirely reconciled himself to this bleak reality and the fact that in a world of eternal recurrence, the only choices that matter are the ones we make for ourselves. This realization transforms him into a new kind of human being, the new man, the Übermensch, or Overman. He is a being beyond good and evil, because “the greatest evil is necessary for the Overman.”15 He is a being freed at last from Plato and Aristotle and the chains of Western rationalism. He is a being
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