Nietzsche's Texts: Beyond Good And Evil

However, if we read Nietzsche’s texts and his perspective critically, we realize that this idea just doesn’t have a theological aspect, in fact the main aspect to it is directed at the plight of western/modern world and its culture. In addition, to the great decline of religion in society, the absence of a higher moral authority and character of being. This statement has brought advancements to the concepts of existentialism and nihilism too, here we can also see how severely these notions have evolved in terms of their meaning and has brought the world into chaos.

Now, many people think that their lives run through a divine intervention and they observe different positive signs for good things and negative signs for the bad deeds they have

He wanted to have more realistic source of values which he found revolving around the nucleus of ‘life itself’. He advocates that we must not stick to the simplistic idea of good and evil in our consideration of morality defined by the Christianity. In his book "Beyond Good and Evil", he emphasized to go beyond these parameters because he believed that Christian faith system has not only lost its relevance but is also harmful to society. Nietzsche had several reasons for believing in this. He viewed that Christianity had muted artistic creativity and allowed the week to rule the strong. Nietzsche strongly believed that the will to power is the driving force of human character and the Christian faith system was suppressing that driving force. This helps us to understand that why he says God is dead- meaning that God created by Christianity is nor more

Rather, he meant that the Christian God is no longer a credible source of absolute moral principles. Nietzsche was talking about morality, as in, its Judeo-Christian basis, when in 19th century Germany was a place where many people already rejected the conception of God as it is in traditional religion but still lived according to Christian principles which Nietzsche himself considered to be slavish ones. It is basically the decline of religion, the rise of atheism, and the absence of a higher moral authority through of the nihilism that would plunge the world into