Nietzsche

Nietzsche and the Death of God

Nietzsche saw that Europe had quietly stopped believing, and warned the old moral certainties would crumble with it-'God is dead.' Rather than despair, he urged us to create our own values, driven by the will to power, life's urge to grow and overcome. He even asked: could you love your life enough to will it repeated forever?

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”

Where this sits in the course

“Nietzsche” is lesson 1 of 5 in Existence & Meaning, a course about after certainty cracks: freedom, meaning, absurdity, and becoming.. The lessons are sequenced rather than a menu, so this one assumes what came before it.

Existence & Meaning is itself one of 18 courses in thinkr. The set opens with what philosophy is, moves through the Stoics and the Eastern traditions, then into what can be known, what exists, how to act and how power works — closing on practical reasoning you can use in an argument this week.

More from Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.”

In the app this lesson is followed by 4 exercises that check whether the idea actually landed — and every answer, right or wrong, is explained rather than scored. That is the part a written page cannot reproduce.