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Jan 29, 2022 · “God is dead”: What Nietzsche really meant. The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy. Key...
Jun 24, 2021 · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (who was famous for the quote "God is dead") was the son and grandson of Lutheran ministers. He was expected to follow their path, but the precocious young Nietzsche had his own ideas. And these were enormously influential in the 20th century.
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Sep 1, 2018 · Nietzsche is talking about decadence, i.e., any approach to life, such as Christian morality, that leads to the decay rather than the flourishing of human beings. At the same time, he is commenting on the fact that over two millennia, so few people have recognized this: doing so requires genius.
The quote you have is from Nietzsche's notebooks. Assuming he does indeed mean there are some facts, you may want to look at the Twilight of the Idols, which begins. My demand of the philosopher is well known: that he take his stand beyond good and evil and treat the illusion of moral judgment as beneath him. This demand follows from an insight ...
- An important thing to keep in mind when reading Nietzsche is that most of the time he is trying to reveal things through insights. The point of t...
- The quote gave me some problems as well, but as I understand it, Nietzsche is here taking a very basic position in contemporary philosophy. Regardl...
- To understand this idea, you need to go back to Nietzsche's insight that there can be no apprehension of reality without a perceiving mind. (Makes...
- According to Leiter of Chicago, in the SEP [Nietzsche does not claim] that there are no truths or facts about anything, let alone truths about v...
- Nietzsche did believe in the existence of an objective reality, which he considered self-evident. However, he also believed that we have no means o...
- Karl Marx said the same thing, perhaps more eloquently. Everything solid melts into air. In other words, whatever your conclusions might be to all...
- Is light a particle or a wave? It depends entirely on the procedure used to measure it. Its the observer effect in physics. Additionally, in order...
- To comment out of context would be a fool's errand. Not one commentator has addressed hr. Nietzsche's german words. Du has t recht aber ich habe...
- Friedrich Nietzsche has also another quotation which can be related and interlinked with this one, "You have your own way. I have my way. As for th...
I've been reading a little Nietzsche and I find his philosophy fascinating so far, but I'm having trouble understanding this quote. My own take is that, evil can corrupt you if you are in an environment amongst it, and aren't careful and vigilant against its tempting nature?
- It's also important to remember that Nietzche's father was an ultra religious Christian and he would have no doubt been well familiar with Jesus' w...
- It has to be read as poetic language. It's evocative, unsettling, and striking, rather than explicit. Fighting monsters making a hero monstrous is...
- The key word in the first sentence is "fights." When one fight, one often justifies one's actions by what it does to one's opponents. People who...
- Think about your own demons and enemies. You do your best to push them to the side. But how far will you go? How long do you ponder a darker sol...
- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster" Think of Quint in Jaws. His experience on the USS Indianapolis so af...
- This is an interesting question and, personally, I have also pondered on what Nietzche meant by this quote. This is my interpretation: The more one...
- Maybe it's a retake on the biblical saying, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. As for the abyss gazing back. I guess if the abyss is e...
- In my opinion it has to do with becoming what you fight against, it is in a way unavoidable not to become a monster if you fight a monster. Staring...
- "When you gaze long into the abyss ... " the abyss being the void, the utter arbitrariness and meaninglessness of the universe ... "the abyss gazes...
The quote inspired an anxious 1966 Time magazine cover, and a preachy 2016 movie franchise that works hard to inoculate the faithful against atheism’s threatening seductions: “God is Dead,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in his 1882 book of incisive aphorisms, The Gay Science, and unwittingly coined a phrase now inseparable from 20th century ...
God is dead. " God is dead " ( German: "Gott ist tot" (help·info)) is a phrase by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It is also known as the death of God. The phrase is not meant literally. Instead it is about what value destruction has done to people's belief in Christianity.
