So what did Nietzsche mean by his statement ‘god is dead’? On the surface it may appear that he was referring to the observation that belief in the monotheistic god of Christianity was on the decline. We’ll look at what such a statement meant to Nietzsche, what led him to make such a bold pronouncement, and what he thought would happen if this belief were to become as widespread as he anticipated. To do this we’ll analyze what is perhaps Nietzsche’s most famous and controversial statement: “god is dead”. In this lecture we will investigate why Nietzsche thought these ‘old truths’ were approaching their end. In the last lecture, we investigated true world theories, which were examples of some of the old ‘truths’ Nietzsche thought were on the decline. Twilight of the Idols – that is: the old truth is approaching its end.” (Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche) “What is called idol on the title page is simply what has been called truth so far. In his book Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche announces: The following is a transcript of this video.
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