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Why Is Nietzsche God Is Dead

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Ethics & Aesthetics

Nietzsche God is Dead

2015-16 David Farrell

Introduction
This essay will discus Nietzsche’s philosophy that he proposed that God is Dead and that life is meaningless and fate trumps fate. He provided an alternative philosophy of life is life affirming?

Nietzsche has many distractors most of these in opposition to his philosophy base there objections religious beliefs.

God is Dead
Nietzsche first declared the death of god in his book The Gay Science from 1882 in section 108 is the first time he says God is Dead “ After Buddha was dead, people showed his shadow for centuries afterwards in a cave,—an immense frightful shadow. God is dead: but as the human race is constituted,

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