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Nietzsche - Coggle Diagram
Nietzsche
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'God is dead, and we have killed him'
he did not mean humans had literally killed God, he meant that the idea of God was no longer necessary nor plausible as science could now answer difficult questions about human existence instead
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Christians believe that God decides what is right and wrong and reveals it to humans, but if God doesn't really exist, then it makes no sense to follow his rules or ideas
e.g. no longer need/reason to believe in forgiveness, caring for the weak or human equality
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it allows us to start afresh and create a new more natural morality that reflects our true human nature
Ubermensch
he thought that if people wanted to know whether they were living a good life, they should ask themselves whether they would be willing for their life to repeat itself in the exact same way over and over
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he thought that only strong people could accept the physical world as it is rather than find comfort in an imaginary God or illusory afterlife
he imagined a future stage of human development where there would be a higher form of being called an Ubermensch (superman) whose hatred of weakness would lead him to defeat it and create his own strong morals
Nietzsche wrote "It is nor surprise that lambs do not like great birds of prey". However, he didn't think that we should see great birds of prey as evil because they attack the lambs. In the same way, people who are naturally strong and powerful should not be seen as evil for demonstrating their strength over others.