Is Nietzsche considered a superman or a master? and why?

I'm studying for a final, and one of the possible questions in my exam is if Nietzsche could be seen as a superman, or as a master? what do you think? thanks!Is Nietzsche considered a superman or a master? and why?The measure of a man or a woman is based on the love, wisdom, and power of that one.



Nietzsche's "superman" is a "creative genius." This corresponds to Nietzsche's main persona.



"Mastery" is a cut above "expert." An artist paints a "masterpiece."



Can any of Nietzsche's philosophical works be considered a "masterpiece" such as are Plato's "Republic," Plotinus' "Enneads," Whitehead's "Process and Reality," Wittgenstein's "Tractatus," Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason," and Goedel's "Incompleteness Theorem"? I believe not; if the above are masterly; rather, I would rate Nietzsche as an "expert," "second rate"--which is not pejorative.



What his expertise focuses on, is Schopenhauer's "will to power," and how individuals may maximize their "creativity" or "self-actualization." Nietzsche is profoundly a psychological philosopher, an expert in the realm of self-actualization, "supermanhood," which has since been more scientifically and rationally developed by Abraham Maslow.



Ironically, Nietzsche's dichotomy of "herd" vs. "superman" is a false dichotomy, given Maslow's evidence that any humans who are earning daily human needs--water, food, shelter--are then able to move into mutual respect, and then into creativity, supermanhood, expertness, self-actualization.



Even more ironically, Maslow's original formulation included spirituality, Self-realization, God-connectedness, at the apex. He truncated the pyramid, in the 1950s and 1960s, in order that it would be more palatable to academics. In the final year of his life, reviewing his data on long-term practitioners of his system, he found overwhelming evidence that the only people who prospered over time were those whose value systems included love of God, or at least a respect for a higher power.



cordially,



j.



p.s. Would note "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, as carrying forward and beyond Maslow, and of course Nietzsche.Is Nietzsche considered a superman or a master? and why?I think that Nietzsche's superman is a master of himself, a master of his own will %26amp; ideally a master of his destiny.



Whether Nietzche, himself, was one is debatable.