Some connect the concept back to Nietzsche's 1883 work of philosophy Thus Spake Zarathustra, with its idea of the Übermensch, a superior human whose existence would justify the species.
It is not yet known whether Papadopoulos explicitly told his superiors about the existence of this Russian "dirt". But he is cooperating with investigators, so he may be in a position to shed more light on just how much they knew about it.
Why not have Mr. Spock, a superior philosophical being (a member of the Vulcan race) evolve to a higher plane of existence (consciousness, if you will) rather than just die?
Liberals, no less than conservatives — and for that matter revolutionaries and reactionaries; in other words, all of us — believe some modes of existence are superior to others.
This work verifies the existence of superior chemisorption between HAP and VOCs leading to a better performance of TiO2/HAP for photocatalytic degradation.
The NAE praises Schlom's "materials-by-design" approach in which he works closely with experts in theory, synthesis and characterization to discover materials with properties superior to those in existence.
God creates series of efficient causes where any superior element causes the existence of the inferior ones.
Nonetheless, when dealing with success of the great civilizations, more than half of the students still hold to a classificatory conception of human populations based on the existence of superior intellectual abilities.
Therefore, if a being a greater than which cannot be conceived, can even be conceived, it must exist.Hartshorne says that, for Anselm, "necessary existence is a superior manner of existence to ordinary, contingent existence and that ordinary, contingent existence is a defect".
