Common Characteristics of Nietzsche's Superman and Movlavi’s Perfect Man in the Masnavi and Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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1 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature, Lorestan University, Khoramabad, Iran

2 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature,, Lorestan University, Khoramabad, Iran

Abstract

In order to show the differences between humans and other living beings, and to express the differences between humans, numerous signs have been introduced, and finally, the perfected human has been proposed in human thought. The superman, the most important theory of Nietzsche and the perfect man of Movlavi (Rumi), shows the perfection of the human level. Despite the difference in the views of these two thinkers, there are many similarities in their introduction of the characteristics of the perfected human. In this study, the intellectual backgrounds of Movlavi and Nietzsche are first examined, and then the common characteristics that they have listed for human perfection are considered. This commonality has been examined in an analytical-comparative manner, considering Movlavi's verses in the Masnavi and Nietzsche's works. These two thinkers have presented common concepts in defining the superman and have listed the obstacles to achieving this position. The commonality in their statements brings us closer to the belief that only a veneer of religiosity or irreligiosity has shown them to be different.

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