Philosopher
God is dead
Overview
"God is dead" (German: Gott ist tot [ɡɔt ɪst toːt] ; also known as the death of God) is a metaphor used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, appearing in The Gay Science (1882) and Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–85). Nietzsche does not claim that a supernatural being has perished, nor does he offer an argument for atheism as a doctrine. Rather, the phrase is a diagnostic claim about the condition of Western civilisation. Nietzsche used "God" as a symbol representing Christian morality and its metaphysical worldview that, for centuries, provided Europe with its foundation for morality, meaning, and value.
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Philosophers who discussed God is dead
Ideas God is dead discusses
- Heinrich Heine
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Max Stirner
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Immanuel Kant
- Atheism
- Übermensch
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Metaphysics
- Christian philosophy
- Metaphor
- Western culture
- The Gay Science
- German idealism
- Lutheranism
- Pantheism
- Gianni Vattimo
- Theology
- Age of Enlightenment
- Secularization
- Critique of Pure Reason
- YouTube
- Martin Heidegger
Place in the tradition
Part of Atheistic existentialism.