Problem
A. What is tragic about tragic optimism? What is optimistic? Why did Nietzsche reject ordinary optimism?
B. What are the diseases of modernity, and what is their cumulative effect on the herd? On the overman? How is it that the same conditions can nurture two such distinct types?
C. What is the chief quality of the overman? In what sense is this quality a result of being beyond good and evil? What can we do to become overmen? Explain.