ORIGIN AND NEW MEANING ASSIGNED TO THE CONCEPT OF SUPERMAN.

Bernard Shaw has written his philosophy of Dynamism of ‘Life Force’ as an evolutionary cosmic action plan in the ‘Prefaces’ of his plays and particularly in his play Man And Superman. These prefaces deal with the formative influences on Bernard Shaw of world’s great pioneers in relation to his creed of ‘Creative Evolution’ on which his concept of the superman is based. His theories of “Life Force” and ‘Creative Evolution” has been discussed in detail in his prefaces. He frankly accepts that the evolutionary appetite on will is not a new idea. He goes back to the great thinkers of the past to trace out the idea from its very origin. His theory of ‘Superman’ is the result of his deep study of the Greece and German philosophers. This paper attempts to study about influence of various philosophers on Shaw’s concept of superman.