statement by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
Photo of Friedrich Nietzsche, who used the phrase "God is dead" in several of his writings. Photograph by Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, circa 1875.
"God is dead" (German: Gott ist tot [ɡɔt ɪst toːt] ; also known as the death of God) is a metaphor used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, appearing in The Gay Science (1882) and Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–85). Nietzsche does not claim that a supernatural being has perished, nor does he offer an argument for atheism as a doctrine. Rather, the phrase is a diagnostic claim about the condition of Western civilisation. Nietzsche used "God" as a symbol representing Christian morality and its metaphysical worldview that, for centuries, provided Europe with its foundation for morality, meaning, and value.
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