Was Nietzsche individualist? Zarathustra-overman version

Friedrich Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. But note this from his Thus Spoke Zarathustra:

“The overman is the sense of the earth … . I love those who sacrifice themselves for the earth, that the earth may some day become the overman’s.” (Z I.P.3).

So: Contrary to individualism, your life is not yours to live—you’re here to sacrifice yourself for some being in the future.

Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is complicated. For more, check out my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” (audio version; text version).

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