Nietzsche’s Understanding Of Autonomy As Self-Overcoming
Nietzsche’s Understanding Of Autonomy As Self-Overcoming

Summary/Abstract: According to Nietzsche, an autonomous individual has a certain skill or capacity to be free, his own long, unbreakable will to power, the ability to make a promise, he has “mastery over himself”, has a standard of value, is permitted to say “yes” to himself and is conscious of “superiority and completion.” The capability to achieve autonomy Nietzsche explains through mastery over circumstances, nature and fate. Someone who has the spirit to become free is capable of accepting and affirming oneself as a whole, and rather than seeing the necessity or accepting the fate of one’s character as an obstacle to action, one sees it as an opportunity for true selfexpression. An autonomous individual is strong enough for this freedom and stands in the midst of a universe of joyful and trusting fatalism. This person has in his power conscious and unconscious drives and accepts with challenge the obstacles and opportunities given to him by fate. They have the will and power for struggle to overcome them and to achieve new freedom according to their rules and values.

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