“What produces to-day our repulsion towards “man”? …it is not fear; it is rather that we have nothing more to fear from men …it is that the “tame man,” the wretched mediocre and unedifying creature, has learnt to consider himself a goal and a pinnacle, an inner meaning, an historic principle, a “higher man.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Much of Nietzsche’s work in philosophy was dedicated to exposing Western thought for its foolishness. Although his investigations ultimately led him to an extreme Nihilist position, he nonetheless made a whole lot of sense regarding man and his failures. In his phenomenal book, On the Genealogy of Morals , Nietzsche navigates through modern moral concepts that we’ve inherited, and through detail, demonstrates how we have become our own worst enemy throughout history. The quote above gives rise to many questions, one of which stresses this idea of “man” and how he holds himself as something he is not, insofar as self-awareness is concerned. Man has alw