The philosophy of Nietzsche proposes that ‘God is dead’. ‘God is dead’ was first introduced in the year 1882 in Nietzsche’s book, the Gay Science. Eventually, Nietzsche gives a different philosophy of life that is life upholding. In relation to his philosophy, it has many obstacles due to many reasons. For instance, unquestionably, most of the opposing arguments to Nietzsche’s philosophy build their complaints on a misperceived threat to their firmly programmed religious beliefs.
The phrase ‘God is dead’ does not imply that Nietzsche had faith in God who first lived and then died in a correct sense. Rather the phrase means that ‘God’ is not the reliable source of whole moral philosophies. Nietzsche says that ‘God is dead and He remains dead as we have killed him.’ By this statement, Nietzsche meant that people no longer have a need for God. Nietzsche uses his philosophical and theological arguments to justify the God are dead. This conviction does not in any means assist the existence of the species, but it obstructs (Jackson 56).
The phrase ‘God is dead’ is another way of saying that human beings and the entire of western civilization cannot support belief in any of such divine order. By divine order, he meant that there could never a retained system of values without a holy order. He adds that the Death of God can lead not only to the denial of a faith of intergalactic or bodily order but also to a rejection of total values. He argues that the comprehensive loss of morality may lead to nihilism. The nihilism here refers to the research that Nietzsche engaged in to find solutions by re-assessing the basis of human morality. This implies that Nietzsche was looking for the substance that was more extensive than Christian morals. According to Nietzsche belief, a majority of people did not know of this death because of the fear. Therefore, when God’s death becomes widely recognized, people will anguish, and nihilism will become widespread.
God’s death, as Nietzsche states show the ineffectiveness of determination. He also asserts that when it comes to the origin of human beings, untraced procedures are the only play in the town of atheist’s town. In additions, evolution picks survival; the knowledgeable faculties ascending from such systems would be modified to survive. However, Nietzsche argues that there is no link between survival and truth because an innocently realistic world would be united in that intelligence on truth would be loomed rather than help it survive.
Nietzsche phrase ‘God is dead’ provoked several responses from other religious enemies and also the later existentialists. For example, Camus Albert regarded people’s need for higher divine order. Albert argued as opposed to Nietzsche, that death of Supreme Being resulted from human beings need for greater powers to live a moral life. Furthermore, Nietzsche justification that ‘god is dead’ relates to the slave mentality, which he says is one of the things many people call Christian morality. Conversely Nietzsche does not attack Christians directly; instead, he argues that because it oppresses its believers. Additionally, Nietzsche avoids accepting to mention the direction the Christians follow and the rigidity manner of their beliefs. His position tries to show that to do away with the Christian slavery and it is important that we eliminate the slave master who is God. In eliminating him, people can perhaps overwhelm the dogma, conformity, fear, and superstition, and thus find the new type of slavery master.
Work cited
Jackson, Roy. Teach Yourself Nietzsche. United States: McGraw-Hill, 2008.