The Moon's gravitational pull on the side of Earth nearest the Moon pulls the oceans toward the Moon. The oceans bulge on the other side as well. Find out why. Another form of energy in the ocean is tidal energy. The energy for Earthâs tides comes mostly from the Moonâs gravity and a little from the Sunâs gravity. The part of the ocean facing the Moon bulges out. The part of the ocean on exactly the opposite side of Earth bulges out too. So as Earth turns, the ocean surface seems to rise and fall.
âOvermanâ refers to Nietzscheâs conception of a man who has literally overcome himself and human nature. In essence, an Overman is one who has superseded the bondage of the human condition and reached a liberated state â one of free play and creativity.
[Editor's Note: The following new entry by R. Lanier Anderson replaces the former entry on this topic. The former entry is now published as Nietzscheâs Life and Works.] Friedrich Nietzsche (1844â1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity.