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Philosophical concept

Self-overcoming

Self-overcoming is the work by which a person reshapes inherited habits, ideals, and forces into a more demanding form, not a license to dominate other people.

Works
31
Passages
3,611
Thinkers
4
Traditions
3

Understand uses of the concept

Self-overcoming is the work by which a person reshapes inherited habits, ideals, and forces into a more demanding form, not a license to dominate other people.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 3,611 passages across 31 works, including Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German Edition, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: dépassement de soi, self-overcoming, selbstüberwindung, überwinden

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German EditionAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  2. Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleSigmund Freud · 0 passages
  3. Jokes and Their Relation to the UnconsciousSigmund Freud · 0 passages
  4. The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 0 passages
  5. Three Essays on the Theory of SexualitySigmund Freud · 0 passages
  6. Psychological TypesCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  7. Thus Spoke Zarathustra IFriedrich Nietzsche · 34 passages
  8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra IIFriedrich Nietzsche · 25 passages
  9. Thus Spoke Zarathustra IIIFriedrich Nietzsche · 62 passages
  10. Thus Spoke Zarathustra IVFriedrich Nietzsche · 63 passages
  11. David StraussFriedrich Nietzsche · 31 passages
  12. The AntichristFriedrich Nietzsche · 65 passages
  13. The Case of WagnerFriedrich Nietzsche · 17 passages
  14. The Birth of TragedyFriedrich Nietzsche · 59 passages
  15. The Gay ScienceFriedrich Nietzsche · 472 passages
  16. Dionysian DithyrambsFriedrich Nietzsche · 16 passages
  17. Ecce HomoFriedrich Nietzsche · 73 passages
  18. A New Year's WordFriedrich Nietzsche · 1 passages
  19. Twilight of the IdolsFriedrich Nietzsche · 147 passages
  20. Idylls from MessinaFriedrich Nietzsche · 8 passages
  21. Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche · 302 passages
  22. Human, All Too Human IFriedrich Nietzsche · 656 passages
  23. Human, All Too Human IIFriedrich Nietzsche · 769 passages
  24. DaybreakFriedrich Nietzsche · 581 passages
  25. Nietzsche contra WagnerFriedrich Nietzsche · 20 passages
  26. Richard Wagner in BayreuthFriedrich Nietzsche · 29 passages
  27. Schopenhauer as EducatorFriedrich Nietzsche · 32 passages
  28. Socrates and Greek TragedyFriedrich Nietzsche · 12 passages
  29. On the Use and Abuse of History for LifeFriedrich Nietzsche · 31 passages
  30. On the Genealogy of MoralityFriedrich Nietzsche · 84 passages