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Who Is Responsible For Nietzche's Death
What did Nietzche mean when he wote "God is dead." ? Nietzche's statement of "God is dead" is easily misinterpreted to be that an actual God has died. However when Nietzche wrote "God is dead" he did not believe that there was an actual God who had existed and then died. He wrote this statement to show that God wasnt a proper source for moral principles anymore. Nietzche said that the death of a God was a manner of stating that humans would no longer be able to believe in any order of moral principles since they would not have been able to look to a God for them. The demise of God for Nietzche would have lead to the rejection of belief of order and also the rejection of absolute value. This would lead to the loss of the base of morals.
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