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In one of his first texts, Friedrich Nietzsche, at that time not yet 35, referred to man as ‘the over-animal’, striving at all costs to dissociate himself from his true genealogy. The self-image created by human beings is to serve the denial of their very nature. It is to serve the lofty perception of the self as a unique being, separated from the nature by a mysterious, impassable border. He puts it in the following, unmistakably Nietzschean way.
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Pietrzykowski, T. (2018). Introduction. In: Personhood Beyond Humanism. SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78881-4_1
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