If you have followed this blog at all, you should be aware by now of Nietzsche’s dim view of our conventional morality. For him, it is a morality that esteems meekness, passivity, patience, equality, compassion and modesty. But it is simply the case, he argues, that these so-called ‘virtues’ are nothing but the characteristics of the slavish ‘herd’ who are, in fact, responsible for the predominance of this regrettable, conventional morality. Nietzsche claims that the herd pra

The status of suffering is key in Nietzsche's thought. He rails against our natural aversion to suffering - an aversion that, of course is understandable. For couldn’t suffering be defined, generally speaking, as that which displeases us; as that which we tend to try and avoid? Nietzsche feels that this aversion has gone too far, however, making modern humanity weak, risk-averse and obsessed with mere comfort and wellbeing when instead it should be striving for Greatness - wi

Welcome to the first in an occasional series on figures from popular culture who may or may not be examples of the Nietzschean Übermensch. This week, our inaugural post in this series considers the caped crusader himself, Batman. Batman has been around since 1939 when he first appeared in DC Comics’ Detective Comics 27. Since then, he has appeared innumerable times in print and on the screen, from the kitsch comedy of the 1960s TV series with Adam West, to the twisted psychol