Understanding Nietzsche: The Death of God and the Revaluation of Values

Understanding Nietzsche: The Death of God and the Revaluation of Values

In this video, we dive into the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, exploring his provocative claim that "God is dead" and its impact on Western culture. We examine his rejection of traditional morality and the concept of the revaluation of values, as well as his insights into the dangers of nihilism and the importance of embracing life-affirming values. Along the way, we explore the concepts of existentialism and the philosophy of religion, and we consider Nietzsche's call for individuals to find their own creativity and vitality in a world without objective meaning. Join us as we seek to understand Nietzsche and his lasting impact on philosophy and culture.

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[JMLatvala]

Actually. Nietzsche explains himself what God is dead means (to him), and it's not what you said. In Twilight of the idols, in "How the 'True world' finally became a fable", he explains that "God" in his earlier stories was merely a symbol for the suprasensory realm as understood by metaphysics, and he starts calling it the "true world" from now on. To put things in context, ever since Parmenides, our tradition of thought taught us that what's behind the appearances, so either God, Being, the First Principles or Ideas, is more real, more truthful, more meaningful than what appears, or what is available to our sense perception. The emrgence of empirical science, and the end of metaphysics that Nietzsche witnessed (with Kant who demostrated the impossibility of metaphysics being a science, with the rise of positivism, and the fact that scientists abandoned philosophy), he noticed that we can not give up either of these realities without losing both of them. The sensory only makes sense, if there is something that is not sensory. This was also noted by Democritus, in his little dialogue between the mind, the organ of the suprasensory, and the senses: "Sense perceptions are illusions, says the mind; they change according to conditions of our body; sweet, bitter, color, and so on only exist in nomo, by convention amongst men, and not physei, according to the true nature behind appearances. Whereupon the senses ansswer: Wretched mind! Do you overthrow us while you take from us your evidence? Our overthrow will be your downfall"

In Nietzsche's own words, from the cited part of the book: "we have abolished the true world. What has remained? The apparent one perhaps? Oh no! With the true world, we have also abolished the apparent one"

Besides, Nietzsche wan't even the first big Philosopher to say God is dead. It was first said by Hegel, but in his context, this phrase had a much more apparent religious connotation "sentiment underlying religion in the modern age is the sentiment: God is dead"

For Nietzsche, religion, especially Christianity was hardly metaphysics at all. He called Christianity "Platonism for stupid people", and was well aware that the majority of people who were or were not anymore religious could not make a distinction between the true and apparent world in the first place. So his critique was pointed towards philosophers and scientists of his age, not the herd mass of people who lost their faith in God. The critiques of the loss of morality snd religion are ofcourse part of his philosophy, but not under the slogan God is dead

[jhljhl]

This is nothing new. The sociopath also rejects traditional values.