英和和英

名詞

overperson (複数形 overpeople)

1. Synonym of overman
   1. Superman.
      • 1997, Dennis A. Rohatyn, Philosophy History Sophistry, →ISBN, page 133:

        An overperson is original and therefore alone. Gods do not consort with each other, let alone comfort the rest of us.

      • 2012, Dennis Carlson, Leaving Safe Harbors, →ISBN:

        Nietzche does in fact emphasize again and again that the overperson overcomes him or herself, not others.

      • 2015, Michael York, Pagan Ethics: Paganism as a World Religion, →ISBN, page 123:

        And with the birth of the overperson at the great noontide of the future, humanity is to achieve an atheistic freedom expressed in the wish: “Dead are all the Gods: now do we desire the Superman to live.

   2. Supervisor.
      • 1964, Samuel Pondipeddi Adinarayan, Social psychology: with special reference to Indian conditions:

        The nation is an overperson imposing its wishes upon individual members, performing acts and receiving allegiance from its citizens.

      • 1965, Elton B. McNeil, The nature of human conflict, page 69:

        In this process the individual accepts the belief in the entity of the nation as an overperson and the corresponding personification of the out-group nation as a causal agent ( Allport, 1933 ) .

      • 2017, Robert E. Lerner, Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life, →ISBN, page 334:

        Short of space, he built a little wine cellar in a linen closet.26 In December 1951 he wrote that the “overperson” was complaining about commotions after 11:00 at night, a time when “normal” people should be asleep.