What did Nietzsche mean with "God is dead"?

[BeBMan]

Wasn´t the original quote "He´s dead, Jim"?

[Ecthy]

should I have opted for the FU rather than Potsdam to study history&politics?

[BeBMan]

Probably Nah, seriously - no idea - can´t judge about Potsdam, and I´m not on the FU (although I could visit some courses there too - maybe I´ll do it during the next years). Don´t know how good the libraries in the uni of Potsdam are, in Berlin you have the libraries of all three unis, plus the huge state library

[Ecthy]

we use the StaBi too

[Ecthy]

...and the libs of the Suhr and the Meinecke institute

[BeBMan]

For uni libs, it is said that the FU has the best for history studies. The HU suffers a bit from the financial crisis of Berlin However, since one can use both....

[GePap]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Basically Nietzsche wanted people to worship him as a new, human god, so he had to debase and attack the God everyone followed.

Absolutely not!

[Agathon]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Basically Nietzsche wanted people to worship him as a new, human god, so he had to debase and attack the God everyone followed.

Uh... no.

In its broadest sense "God is dead" means that transcendent explanations for traditional human values, like Theism or Kant's Transcendental Idealism, have been discredited.

This means we have to look for the source of value in the physical world (in the Greek sense of "physical") and we don't find justification for most of our traditional values there.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Agathon


Uh... no.

In its broadest sense "God is dead" means that transcendent explanations for traditional human values, like Theism or Kant's Transcendental Idealism, have been discredited.

Why?

Ah, have to go off in some minutes....

[Ramo]

God disappeared in a puff of logical contradiction.

[BeBMan]

Yeah, I´m atheist myself But I wanted to hear Nietzsches version...

[Agathon]

Originally posted by BeBro


Why?

Ah, have to go off in some minutes....

science.

[Meticulous Man]

In its broadest sense "God is dead" means that transcendent explanations for traditional human values, like Theism or Kant's Transcendental Idealism, have been discredited.

nm

[BeBMan]

Before I leave is someone willing to write more than a single word or a one-liner about it?

[Whaleboy]

Originally posted by Stewie from Family Guy
You know, I rather like this God fellow. Very theatrical, you know. Pestilence here, a plague there. Omnipotence... oh yeah gotta get me some of that