Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None — Page 4

培育超人的概念，不过是尼采年轻时已有的一种理想的新形式，即'人类的目标应在于其最杰出的个体'（或如他在《作为教育者的叔本华》中所写：'人类应不断努力造就伟大的人——这是它的职责，除此之外别无其他。'）

The notion of rearing the Superman is only a new form of an ideal Nietzsche already had in his youth, that "THE OBJECT OF MANKIND SHOULD LIE IN ITS HIGHEST INDIVIDUALS" (or, as he writes in "Schopenhauer as Educator": "Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce great men—this and nothing else is its duty.")

但他在那个时代最为推崇的理想，如今已不再被视为人类的最高典范。

But the ideals he most revered in those days are no longer held to be the highest types of men.

不，这位诗人将成为之幕笼罩在这一未来理想——超人——的周围。

No, around this future ideal of a coming humanity—the Superman—the poet spread the veil of becoming.

谁能预知人类还能攀登至怎样辉煌的高度？

Who can tell to what glorious heights man can still ascend?

正因如此，这位诗人在以新的价值观审视我们最崇高的理想——救世主的理想——之后，在《查拉图斯特拉》中以激情满怀的语气呼喊道：

That is why, after having tested the worth of our noblest ideal—that of the Saviour, in the light of the new valuations, the poet cries with passionate emphasis in "Zarathustra":

'超人迄今尚未出现。我曾裸眼见过他们两者，最伟大的人与最渺小的人：他们彼此之间依然过于相似。的确，就连最伟大者，我也发现——他依然过于人性！'

"Never yet hath there been a Superman. Naked have I seen both of them, the greatest and the smallest man:— All-too-similar are they still to each other. Verily even the greatest found I—all-too-human!"

'培育超人'这一说法常常遭到误解。

The phrase "the rearing of the Superman," has very often been misunderstood.

在此，'培育'一词所指的是：以新的、更高的价值观来改造的行为——这些价值观作为法则与行为和思想的准则，将从此主宰人类。

By the word "rearing," in this case, is meant the act of modifying by means of new and higher values—values which, as laws and guides of conduct and opinion, are now to rule over mankind.

总体而言，超人学说只有与作者的其他思想相结合，才能得到正确的理解，这些思想包括：等级秩序、权力意志，以及一切价值的重估。

In general the doctrine of the Superman can only be understood correctly in conjunction with other ideas of the author's, such as:—the Order of Rank, the Will to Power, and the Transvaluation of all Values.