Question

How did Nietzsche come up with the phrase 'God is Dead'?

Answer 1

This thought is the leading ideea from "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", and belongs to the prophet which gives the title of the book. With this motto is born the Übermensch, the Overman , the superior man that surpasses the human condition and is the master of his own destiny, because God was just a man's invention generated by fear and weakness, by the need to be a slave. The Overman knows that he is on his own in the world and creates his own values. "God is dead" means that the concepts imposed by christianism have no meaning anymore.

Answer 2

Nietzsche was tone of the most poetic of the philosophers. He took the character of Zarathustra (Zoroaster or Zarosht) and made him the centerpiece of his book “Thus spoke Zarathustra” He then said what he wanted to say through him very much like the style of Plato in his dialogues.

Answer 3

attractive German woman didn't want to go out with him?

Answer 4

he realized that people no longer needed a concept of god in order to make sense of their lives and the world. the widespread acceptance of enlightenment ideals had removed god as a necessary concept in both the natural world and morality.

Answer 5

call him and ask him...

Answer 6

Right before Nitche was going to kick the bucket...then god said... Nietzsche is dead.

Answer 7

Nietzsche arrived at this slogan after realizing that man has no more use for God anymore. He is not something that determines right and wrong in the lives of people and so man has killed off the idea of God by the way that we live. Man has killed him through skepticism and rationalism. Nietzsche once said that Jesus was the last and only true Christian.

Answer 8

God is dead in the hearts of modern man. Killed by both science and rationalism.. . It should be noted that it really wasn't a slogan of Nietzsche, though. It was the words of a 'madman' (Zarathustra, I think) that nobody listened to. Nevertheless, the idea is that modern man hasn't realized yet that we have 'killed' God ... not literally, but figuratively ... making God less important in the universe and our lives by new science, philosophical thought, and ethical standards.