Reward, value, and sense for life must be derived from life, not from any external metaphysical world or system of morality and ethics. However, if you've ever seen the 1989 film, Dead Poets Society, John Keating's "carpe diem" ('seize the day') philosophy is a good place to start thinking about it. If you find this difficult to understand, don't worry, you're not alone.
Herbert also weaves into the Dune saga Nietzsche's concept of "eternal recurrence," ,which suggests that one must live as though one will repeat one's life over and over again for eternity. In fact, though this is a typical misunderstanding of Nietzsche's idea, he addresses this directly in the opening pages of Zarathustra, calling this the "Ultimate Man." Because many readers of Nietzsche confuse "Ultimate Man" for Nietzsche's "superman" Herbert uses Nietzsche's ideas about these two concepts the way that he does. Very basically, the Superman is not a costumed comicbook character, nor is he or she the best or strongest human. Obermensch is variously translated as "Over Man" or "Super Man," or sometimes just "superman." ''Beyond-man" might also work.
Zarathustra is a work of narrative and poetic philosophy whose 189 L main concept concerns the maturing of humankind into Obermensch. Nietzsche is, however, particularly known in modern popular culture-having enjoyed a particular revival in the 1960s-for his strange and wonderful 1883-85 work Tbus Spoke Zarathustra. It might tell you that, after studying with the classicist Ritschl and being heavily influenced by the philosopher Schopenhauer's writing, Nietzsche was one of the youngest ever professors appointed to the chair of classical philology at the University of Basel-a fancy way of saying that he taught about the civilizations of Greece and Rome. The most basic encyclopedia entry on Friedrich Nietzsche will tell you that he was a philosopher from Saxony, born in 1844, and died 1900. Herbert's Dune saga is a work of philosophy that interacts primarily with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the way in which Nietzsche's ideas about humanity could be understood in light of the horrors of the twentith century.
He's a philosopher, not just in the way that everyone can have a "philosophy" of something or other, but an honest-togoodness philosopher, and he uses novels to construct and communicate his philosophy.Friedrich Nietzsche Goes to Space I make three bold claims about Frank Herbert and his Dune novels:
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