Volksgeist in German means “national character” or spirit of the people, while zeitgeist means spirit of the time. Nietzsche, a fighter against his own era, ultimately becomes the emblem of his time. He dislikes equality and freedom in democracy, saying they are the residue of Christian weakness and a repression of the best in human nature. He is against the Kantian conception of duty by maintaining that the love of following a rigid moral rule is a symptom of obedience and rejection of the "will to power". It opposes Bentham's utilitarian contentment with the pursuit of "happiness", a passive denial of life, and a state more akin to that of a herd animal than that of a human being. Nietzsche advocates Master morality that flows from a self-reinforcing, self-governing, creative, and dominant mentality that labels everything like us as “good” and other plebeian traits “bad”; as opposed to that of the reactive and subordinate “ressentiment” of slave morality which excuses one's inferiority and failure on a noble and powerful external object as a scapegoat and labels it as “evil”, while its opposite is appreciated as “good”. Nietzsche argues that to be a truly free agent is to be causa sui, the cause of oneself, not the reactive response to external stimuli. Only the Ubermensch, or superhuman, could achieve this. Nietzsche begins his premise with the assumption that God does not exist, therefore objective morality and intrinsic value are not possible since there is no ultimate being. Nietzsche's Ubermensch will act as his own God, giving himself morality. The Ubermensch is neither slave nor master of others. The Ubermensch is an independent individual who has the power to banish herd instincts from his mind and become a master with self-control and ...... middle of paper ... (espoused by his sister in Nazi propaganda). The effort to achieve the highest possible position in life is the ultimate goal of the will to power, and is in fact itself a manifestation of the will to power. Above all, the Ubermensch is the next step in human evolution. Every human being faces the question "What is the meaning of life?" - some say God and Heaven, others say the ultimate objective virtue, but the Ubermensch will give life a value that is not based on superstition or mystical madness. The Ubermensch finds value in his life experience because it cannot be reasoned with through argument and logic. The Ubermensch would say that the meaning of life is that you die, so make it precious. The Ubermensch is the opposite of Jesus Christ. The Ubermensch is the ultimate realization of the will to power, but not necessarily over others. His most precious power is over himself.