The ultimate cultivation

Early Nietzsche was concerned with education for high culture, which was more socially oriented than later Nietzsche who thought more in terms of individuals, not groups, surpassing present humans. Nietzsche wanted aristocratic cultivation to be free of the mundane sciences and free of more practical money-concerns which he thought had nothing to do with aristocratic cultivation (a long way from the libertarianism some have claimed for Nietzsche). Present knowledge from sociobiology suggest that in the future the cultivation of great men we will need more than aristocratic education, biology will need to be included, the genes are necessarily involved.

Sociobiologists have called for future humanities institutions to be attached to sociobiology institutions, although they don't have evolution to Godhood in mind. We need to find people who can create great works to replace our lost or declined works, which can provide the basis for our evolution to Godhood, but a true high culture is not founded on cultivating minds alone but also on concern for biology. The evolutionary goal is not “merely” culturally developed people who create works of genius, important as that is, the people themselves need to be bio-culturally considered, and even these steps will be steps to even greater people in the future.

To adapt another phrase from Nietzsche, it seems that this future evolutionary religion was born posthumously. It will require more than a few generations. But some generation has to begin the mission.  The goal is to evolve beyond the human species to Godhood, this is the ultimate cultivation.