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Is here shown that del Val and Sorgner’s metahumanism is an extension of Nietzsche’s superhumanism, the latter having been the aspiration to regain a perfect health of a philosopher whose substance abuse was tragically taking its toll on his body and soul.
That Sorgner’s perspectivism does not allow to distinguish humanism’s concept of human dignity from the views of Hitler or Pol Pot is shown to be the fatal flaw in his approach rather than its strength. In fact, for all practical purposes, human dignity equates in Western culture with legal responsibility.
Stefan Zweig’s characterisation of Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche as possessed by the daemonic, “the unrest that is in us all”, provides as well an apt description of Sorgner’s metahumanism.
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Jorion, P. (2022). Discourse Between Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and Paul Jorion on Nietzsche, Fascism and Moving Beyond Humanism: From Friedrich Nietzsche to Stefan Sorgner—The Short Path Leading from Superhumanism to Metahumanism. In: Jorion, P. (eds) Humanism and its Discontents. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67004-7_4
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