Bonhoeffer's New Man and Nietzsche's Overman - a Confrontation of the Anthropology Elements

Magdalena Piekarska

Abstract

The subject of the paper is Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s philosophy of a man, in particular, its connections with Friedrich Nietzsche’s antropology. The author sows Bonhoeffer’s philosophy based on the truth from the Bible and Nietzsche’s philosophy based on rejection of the God. The author compares he most important points of Bonhoeffer’s and Nietzsche’s antropology to show resemblances and differences. Philosophy of overman which was put into practise in Bonhoeffer’s life ruined a dignity of a man. „New” man was overman’s resist.