>God is dead
What did he mean by this?
The people of the world had become disenchanted with religious justification and so it was no longer possible to appeal to God as the reason or cause of something.
>>1157841
He only ate fruit.
>>1157841
That we have killed him
>>1157841
The christian morals were decaying at his time leaving a void in the form of nihilism which led to other faith and moral system like communism and fascism to take over the immense inner and power void. Where instead of serving god you put your faith in the state, the dollar, technology, new age or animu pictures.
I am pretty sure he meant it this way.
nietzsche was the first nihilist
>>1157936
In what work of his does he explicitly say this?
>>1157981
He doesn't because continental philosophy
>>1157949
He's not even the first existentialist.
>>1157936
Roughly this.
He tried to reevaluate morality in later life but went insane after watching a horse being beaten.
>>1157981
The Gay Science.
>>1157841
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
If you take this to be a lament at the crucifixion, it suddenly makes sense.
>>1157841
This is pretty much the thesis of Beyond Good and Evil, which represents his mature philosophy.
Communism was still in its infancy, and had yet to take on it's more religious undertones, while fascism wasn't around yet (nationalism was though).
He predicted the post-Christian moral crises of the early 20th century surprisingly well though.
>>1158070
>He predicted the post-Christian moral crises of the early 20th century surprisingly well though.
And the resultant bloodbaths.
>>1158021
Probably had more to do with untreated siphilis combined with existing mental illness. There is plenty from his life to suggest he suffered from regular depression and perhaps biopolar disorder.
We know he got siphilis from a brothel. The disease goes into remission for 5-25 years before effecting the nervous system, resulting in spells of apathy and dementia, before early death. Pretty much what happened to him.
>>1158021
The horse thing is like the syphilius thing. Neither of them really hold up to any historical investigation. There's no real records of the hosre story until decades after his death so it's probably a tall tell people started saying.
He had brain cancer which fucked up him.
My pet theory is that he worked himself to death. He was writing at a ridiculous rate, pulling off something like 2 books a year, each one immensely in-depth and brilliant. In order to get the energy for this he had to eat a ridiculous amount of glucose: his daily routine was waking up, eating 7 pounds of fruit, and writing inbetween brief walks in the woods. If you read the letters he wrote after he went crazy he sounds exhausted.
>>1157981
You need to study not just the philisophy but the times they were written in and the philosopher himself. Imo Nietzsche didn't fully comprehend what it is he was feeling that was off in the world hence the heavy use of metaphors. Not that he was wrong for having thise sentiments. After all the result of global dissillusionment and spiritual void led to two world wars and some of most hellish manmande horrors.
>>1158104
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3313279/Madness-of-Nietzsche-was-cancer-not-syphilis.html
The syphilis myth is literally anti-German propaganda once Nietzsche's name got associated with the "bad guys"
>>1158059
It is a very intentional allusion.
>>1157981
The Downward Spiral
>>1157841
>For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
Romans 1:19-22
>>1157949
