
3: “God is Dead!"
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Death of God Meant to Symbolise
Nicha is not positing the existence of a literal god and then claiming that this being who actually created the universe has now died. The saint, by completely fixing his attention on the world beyond and rejecting everything worldly, allows the saint to dwell closer to god. By spending so much time focused on human nature, the saint is more in touch with his own nature. We'll examine a many of the places in nicha's work in which that concept of eand o the death of god appear as and will hear from a few different characters in his books who give us different perspectives on what the death ofgod means.
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