and what is the (contextual) explaination behind this statement?
2007-11-23 16:23:35 · 23 answers · asked by RQ 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Friedrich Nietzsche (correct spelling)... You have to put the phrase "God is Dead" in proper context in his book The Gay Science (a.k.a. The Joyful Wisdom)... It is really referencing how science became the predominate arbiter of objective truth for an Enlightenment era Europe. God, once the standard for upon which truth was judged, was replaced by a science & mathematics conceived and implemented by Newton, Descartes, Leibniz, and others... God was not in a sense dead, He just came to take second stage to a much 'higher functioning reality' based upon the principles and understandings of science and logic.
2007-11-23 16:32:26 · answer #1 · answered by Brent R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friedrich Nietzsche
2007-11-24 00:27:34 · answer #2 · answered by DaveNCUSA 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Friedrich Nietzsche
2007-11-24 00:26:14 · answer #3 · answered by DJTT 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't know who said it but I think the reason for the staement stand for that god is a entity of good and that he should reside in us not as him literally living in us but for us to do what he wants us to do and thats be good and while we being good is how he lives on in the world and make his actuall life on this palnet seem real don't get me wrong his with all of us good or bad but i'm just saying. that the less ungodly things we see in all living lifeforms makes you think is there really a god is he really there? The truth is he is but it's hard to feel his living lifeforce with all the evil and coppurtion in the world . with all the bad things happening you wonder if god even alive I think that was reasoning for that statement.
2007-11-24 00:30:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anyisa H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it was Nietzsche who said that, and there's no contextual explanation behind it, he was just a dark, pessimistic, frustrated German guy who happened to be...an atheist.
2007-11-24 00:29:02 · answer #5 · answered by Abbey Road 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nietzsche
2007-11-24 00:28:09 · answer #6 · answered by J c 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Nietzsche. He meant this metaphorically, to mean that religion no longer had the central and all-encompassing role in Western Civilization that it once did. Was he wrong?
P.S. No, "Four", one of the Beatles did NOT say "God is dead". John Lennon said they were more popular than Jesus Christ. That's far from saying God is Dead.
2007-11-24 00:25:51 · answer #7 · answered by Yahoo Will Never Silence Me 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Nietzsche is Pietzsche
2007-11-24 04:47:09 · answer #8 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bishop John Robinson. He meant that the idea of a God spiritually or metaphysically "out there" dies very hard.
2007-11-24 00:29:34 · answer #9 · answered by Nico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friedrich Nietzsche and one of The Beatles (along with many others)
2007-11-24 00:25:48 · answer #10 · answered by FourArrows 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋