Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Rocken, Germany and was raised to become a Lutheran minister by a handful of women, but rejected the idea of ​​becoming a minister after losing his faith in God. In 1889 he became insane and for the last eleven years of his life was cared for by his German nationalist sister. He died in 1900. Friedrich Nietzsche was a modern philosopher of individualism, as he shows in his doctrine of the Will to Power. Nietzsche's greatest concepts included: the will to power, the superman and eternal recurrence. Nietzsche can best be described as “a radical aristocrat, a radical enemy of religion, and a prophet” (Warbeke, 366). In this essay I will try to prove Ubermensch's will to power to overcome eternal recurrence. The will to power is the will to live, dominate, and reshape the world as one sees fit. According to Nietzsche, someone with the will to power like Superman does not conform to the rules of society, but creates his own rules to live. Nietzsche was a disciple of Schopenhauer, but did not agree with his ideal of the will to live, but rather the will to power. The difference between Schopenhauer's will and Nietzsche's will is that Nietzsche's will affirms life; and that of Schopenhauer denies life. The will to power is about inflicting your will on others, becoming a superior being, and ensuring your self-preservation. “It is his doctrine of the will to power as the aim of life” (Peters, 358). Nietzsche believed that humans are weak; that is why they followed the religion of Christianity to guide them. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche speaks of the will to power as God's evolution toward individualism. “Man is something that must be overcome” to evolve into the Superman (Warbeke, 377)....... middle of paper...... eliminate him again and again. Nietzsche is an existentialist, in which his will to power acts like the Superman's drive for greatness. Nietzsche's Superman lives life to the fullest and does not take comfort in society when he knows it is wrong. Nietzsche's eternal recurrence challenges us to live for the present moment, because the past cannot be changed. Works Cited Peters, Charles C. "FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE AND HIS DOCTRINE OF THE WILL TO POWER." The Monist 21.3 (1911): 357-75. JSTOR. Internet. March 09, 2014. .Warbeke, John M. “Friedrich Nietzsche, Antichrist, Superman and Pragmatist.” The Harvard Theological Review 2 (1909): 366-85. JSTOR. March 9, 2014. Nehamas, Alexander. “Eternal recurrence.” The Philosophical Review 89 (1980): 331-56. JSTOR. March 9. 2014.