CentralNotice Last man From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For the football term, see Last man (football) . For uses of "The Last Man", see The Last Man (disambiguation) . The last man ( German : der letzte Mensch ) is a term used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra to describe the antithesis of the imagined superior being, the Übermensch , whose imminent appearance is heralded by Zarathustra. The last man is tired of life, takes no risks, and seeks only comfort and security. The last man's primary appearance is in "Zarathustra's Prologue." After having unsuccessfully attempted to get the populace to accept the Übermensch as the goal of society, Zarathustra confronts them with a goal so disgusting that he assumes that it will revolt them. [ 1 ] The last man is the goal that European civilization has apparently...