in Nietzschean philosophy, an ideal human being of who, in the future, who would be able to use their passions creatively, ignoring instead of having to suppress them in order to follow Christian teachings, and, by doing this, would be able to formulate their own moral code
[German Übermensch, literally ‘over man’, from über super + Mensch man, a back-formation from übermenschlich superhuman; from Thus Spake Zarathustra, a book by Friedrich Nietzsche (d.1900), German philosopher]