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Feb 13, 2018 · Nietzsche’s claim, however, is that “God” is a fiction created by human beings. Thus, God “dies” when there is no good reason to believe that God exists. This essay will help us understand this claim, his arguments for it, and its potential implications for contemporary religious and ethical thought. Nietzsche. 1.
Feb 28, 2024 · Friedrich Nietzsche’s bold assertion “God is dead, and we have killed him” stands as one of the most iconic and provocative statements in the history of philosophy. This declaration, found in Nietzsche’s work “The Gay Science,” captures a momentous shift in Western culture and thought.
Nov 15, 2012 · However, these readings overlook a central concern of his discourse on the death of God: that God, metaphysical philosophy, and the religions, as traditionally conceived and enacted, are opposed to life.
- Jason Smick
- jsmick@scu.edu
- 2013
Blest land beyond the skies! To reach it we must die. But if after death we obtain a glorious immortality, our text is indeed true: "To die is gain." If you would get a fair estimate of the happiness of any man you must judge him in these two closely connected things, his life and his death.
Nov 1, 2021 · In this chapter, I will focus on Nietzsche’s famous parable of the madman who proclaims the death of God (in section 125 of The Gay Science). This short section continues to frame important intellectual debates as well as more popular discussions of religion.
- rwhite@creighton.edu
For the idea that "God is dead" is first placed in the mouth of a madman (der tolle Mensch, 1974:181-182; KSA 111:480-482). Nietzsche takes no sophomoric delight in the idea, to be sure. The madman comes into an anonymous town square loking for God, only to meet with the derivisive laughter of those auditors who no longer believe in God.
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God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown. Friedrich Nietzsche God , Men , Religion