Royce did not see the possibilities that James did in the Übermensch’s potential for advancing the progress of the human race. But according to Royce, Nietzsche’s concern was the moral “perfection, not of society, not of the masses of men, but of the great individual.” In other words, “the great problem of reconciling the unique individual with the world-order is simply not Nietzsche’s problem.” Royce argued that Nietzsche’s philosophy of the Übermensch expressed beautifully the struggle of man in his personal quest to discover what his individuality means for himself. He argued that those
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