the superman—was a person who made his choices entirely on his own, not living by the pressure of what Nietzsche called “the herd” morality. Rather, he defined a master morality. He affirmed his own personal existence and determined to live his life on the basis of his own private choices, because that’s the essence of being human. Edmund Husserl spoke of man’s intentionality—that is, the ability to choose with a purpose in view—as being his basic uniqueness. Jean-Paul Sartre, in a more pessimistic