2006-11-29 13:06:50 · 14 answers · asked by Lanna Raine 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it?
— Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section 125, tr. Walter Kaufmann
Nietchze was really saying that God has no more moral authority anymore, that absolute moral authority is dead. The rest of his philosophy is about building morality from the ground up from human values.
2006-11-29 13:14:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In all honesty, Nietzsche never actually said this. In several of his written essays, he used the non-existence of God as a metaphor, as a means to make a point. But, this never actually appeared in his writing.
2006-11-29 13:53:49 · answer #2 · answered by mrchowwow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For an excuse to do whatever he pleased. Promote racism, and lost hope and to take away people's good thing in life.
Jealousy and anger are strong emotions.
Give creedence to science to destroy the world and have no excuse to help the poor cause they deserve bad treatment in his opinion.
All he is is an opinion and what is opinion? A giant butthole
by the way you cannot kill God so he looses
2006-11-29 13:45:33 · answer #3 · answered by eg_ansel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, however, German poet and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is most famous for making the statement "God is dead" in the Nineteenth Century. Nietzsche, influenced by both Greek philosophy and the theory of evolution, wrote, "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? . . . Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it?" (Nietzsche, The Gay Science, §125).
Nietzsche's purpose was to abolish "traditional" morality-Christianity, in particular-because, in his mind, it represented an attempt of self-serving religious leaders to control the weak and unthinking masses. Nietzsche believed that the "idea" of God was no longer necessary; in fact, God was irrelevant because man was evolving to a place where he could create a deeper and more satisfying "master morality" of his own.
Nietzsche's “God is dead” philosophy has been used to advance the theories of existentialism, nihilism, and socialism. Radical theologians such as Thomas J. J. Altizer and Paul van Buren advocated the "God is dead" idea in the 1960s and 1970s.
The belief that God is dead and religion is irrelevant naturally leads to the following ideas:
1) If God is dead, there are no moral absolutes and no universal standard to which all men should conform.
2) If God is dead, there is no purpose or rational order in life.
3) If God is dead, any design seen in the universe is projected by men who are desperate to find meaning in life.
4) If God is dead, man is independent and totally free to create his own values.
5) If God is dead, the "real" world (as opposed to a heaven and hell) is man's only concern.
The idea that "God is dead" is primarily a challenge to God's authority over our lives. The notion that we can safely create our own rules was the lie that the serpent told Eve: "ye shall be as gods" (Genesis 3:5). Peter warns us that "there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction" (2 Peter 2:1).
The "God is dead" argument is usually presented as a rational, empowering philosophy for artists and intellectuals. But scripture calls it foolish. "The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1). Ironically, those who hold to the “God is dead” philosophy will discover the fatal error in the philosophy when they themselves are dead.
http://www.gotquestions.org/is-God-dead.html
God's Not Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_OTz-lpDjw
2015-08-18 03:19:48 · answer #4 · answered by The Lightning Strikes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
and now that Nietzsche is dead... god has said his word
2006-11-29 14:17:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being dead means to leave a stage where people playing their dramas, out of sight....Humanity made God "dead"..Thousands of beliefs, thousands of specific gods, neither one is true, but man made..God is completely out of sight,clouded by our effort to identify Him...beliefs make it so.God is dead for us...
2006-11-29 13:25:04 · answer #6 · answered by Oleg B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was metaphorical. He meant people do not need such a concept anymore, in a world more modern and more enlightened.
2006-11-29 13:09:53 · answer #7 · answered by Terese D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the modern industrial age with it's emphasis on science and reason made god obsolete.
2006-11-29 13:16:58 · answer #8 · answered by Tony M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He also wanted to have sex with his sister(trivia), but I liked some of his writings
2006-11-29 13:10:56 · answer #9 · answered by For sure 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think he made that statement based on the condition of the world, not sure though, not that in2 philosophy
2006-11-29 13:09:02 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋