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Aphorism: Nietzsche's Cultural Claim

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Life is a condition that places us and then we have to make sense out of it. Nietzsche’s claim is cultural claim. It’s not an atheist claim and it’s also not a theological claim because Nietzsche actually believed in God. He stated that the 20th century is involved in new ways of thinking as manifest in speaking. God is dead is the end of an epoch where shared values ruled.

No one believes that culture is run by a guarantor of the universe which is God who structures, orders and gives purpose to everything. If God is the guarantor that the universe isn’t free of structure, purpose and order. There will be more conceptions. Also cultural power isn’t for one leader but a group of power networks. There’s no one that can represent …show more content…

The only way to find the truth is to search deep in the rational realm, away from anything that’s living and breathing. Nietzsche gives an anthropological view of how power operates in culture as well as how it will operate in the future.

The only way we can understand our being in the world is by thinking about the hidden realms that can’t be seen, touched or smelled.There’s one thing we can absolutely be sure of is that we are a Transcendental Ego. We are not emotions or bodies or living and dying beings, but a soul fixed on the world. The priests who mediated between the daily lives of the common people stated that we can’t trust our bodies because inside them lie the source of our immorality.

The power of the church decreased significantly after the middle ages. More philosophers dared to think freely. God slowly stopped to be the utmost frame of reference and new daring philosophies sprung all the way around. Nietzsche was suspicious of science as a tool to get to objective truth about how the world …show more content…

He stated that the “shadow” of the dead God will remain and terrorize humans for millennia to come. Also “we” is who will have to overcome the shadow of the dead God. He also describes the death of God as the christians beliefs towards the Christian isn’t worth the beliefs. He welcomes the new belief as opening up new perspectives.

The death of God has negative consequences on our view of natural world. It’s full of “shadows of God”. We have to stay against these shadows because they can contradict our understanding of nature. Nietzsche believes that each person is to find their own religious report through years of study, instead of just accepting whatever they’re being told without thinking or searching about it. Also find symbols that can hugely challenge enough to change people’s religious understanding of God and gender, instead of using God’s language to manipulate people’s minds and control

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