Greek Roman God Structures
... When Nietzsche says, God is dead, he means that Westerners and Christians have killed the idea of a loving God because their ideas were often hypocrisies. After all, how can a purely good God promise eternal damnation for our sins? ... In other words, the less one knows how to command, the more urgently one desires some commander, some strict commander- a god, prince. ... To believe in God, is to believe in a certain comforting order to the way things are. ... He takes note that we could never prove God to be indefinitely true. ... 147, Existentialism) When we stop worrying about the ideas or rules of a commander, or a God, we are truly free, and as Nietzsche writes, Every daring act of the knower is allowed again. ... 141, Nietzsche) Nietzsche, in this quote, is trying to say that once God, or order, is out of our lives, we take our lives back. ... 135, Nietzsche) Nietzsche hopes that through his claim that God is dead, people will be set free from slavery. ... He writes, It states that if God does not exist, there is at least one being in whom existence precedes essence, a being whom exists before he can be defined by any concept, and this being is man. ... Nietzsche is cheerful in his claim that God is dead. This is because, with the death of God, man is faced with his true self, defined by his actions and instincts. Sartre takes a more subdued attitude towards God. Sartre states that if God doesnt exist, this would make humans responsible for creating their own lives. He simply expresses that we could never know, as human beings if God exists, but we are part of a shared plan. ... Further, if we understand Phenomenology to be the study of the structures of consciousness that enable consciousness to refer to objects outside itself , we can see that a phenomenologist would consider only what was immediately presented to consciousness.