Oracle of Wisdom Journal of Philosophy and Public Affairs

Studies in classical Greek world view and references thereto have remained a scholarly culture that often introduce and connect the present, in any age, to the remote past, in terms of theme development for contextual and critical discourse. Nietzsche delved reflectively into Greek antiquity in his theoretical explications of the uebermensch (overman/superman). Nietzsche's projections on the Apollonian-Dionysian theory eventually produce the Greek aesthetic phenomenon that explained ancient Greek civilization. The theory borders on management of values in their proportions which metamorphosed in a fusion of principles that gave birth to intensive productions in the positive areas of life. Nietzsche's goal is futuristic. The uebermensch remains a philosophical inquiry into value-requirements for future higher anthropologization model. Man has to break the barriers of the present in the search for a higher form of existence. New frontiers must have to be uncovered. The engine responsible for this feat is the Will to Power – the openness to life affirmation in all its raw presentations. The Will to Power is the existential tendency to advanced Nietzschean value-creation, and the progression there-from on the path to the objective ideal. The uebermensch is the symbolization of the ultimate Will to Power. The study is partly a critical examination of the uebermensch. It is again an attempt to provide an insight into Nietzsche's thought in the midst of the optimistic appreciation of the scientific, industrial and technological rise th in 19 century Europe. As a methodological elaboration of the constructivist critical sense development, the study applied this principle essentially in the assessment of any such synthesization of models and ideals for the future in the quest for human development.

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