Superhuman
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"You had your choice between soaring to superhuman heights with Nietzsche and sinking into subhuman depths with Hitler. You shouted Heil! Heil! and chose the subhuman." --Listen, Little Man! (1945) by Wilhelm Reich |
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Superhuman qualities are qualities that exceed those found in humans.
The Übermensch or "Superman" was postulated by Friedrich Nietzsche as a type of supreme, ultra-aristocratic achievement which becomes possible in the transcendence of modernity, morals or nihilism.
In transhumanism and futurology, superhuman abilities are the technological aim either of human enhancement by genetic modification or cybernetic implants or of future superhuman artificial intelligence.
Speculation about human nature and the possibilities of both human enhancement and future human evolution have made superhumans a popular subject of science fiction.
Superhuman abilities are also associated with the genre of superheroes.
See also
- Speedster (fiction)
- Superhuman strength
- Superpower (ability)
- Super race
- Supersoldier
- The Real Superhumans, television special on the Discovery Channel
- Transhuman
- Stan Lee's Superhumans, documentary television series on The History Channel
