Question

Nietzsche proclaims the death of God and believes that this will allow the “free spirits”
to create a new way of thinking. Some would argue that Nietzsche’s attack upon religion
and morality is an expression of nihilism, while Nietzsche believes the only way to
confront the nothingness that pervades our culture is to deconstruct the traditional
forms of knowledge and values (religion and morality). Briefly discuss Nietzsche’s
revaluation of values and whether this is a challenge to nihilism or the further
development of a “valueless” culture.

Answer 1

Religions were created in order to reinstate and insist upon the moral principles. People never believe things in a plain language but if it is told with a myth of unseen and unloving God, it is accepted because people are usually afraid of the unknown. This prompted the humans to invent a God and keep people under the impression that they are worthless and without God, they won’t be able to do anything. This prevented people from working to their fullest potential. Today if we look back, countries that have kept religion aside have grown and have become equal societies because scientific and industrial advancements were possible only when developed countries kept the influence of the religion on the government aside.

So, in my opinion Nietzsche is right in proclaiming the death of God and believing that this will allow the “free spirits” to create a new way of thinking. It doesn’t correlate to nihilism because nihilism is again the negative side of life by saying that human life is worthless and meaningless. It would only make the corrupt and institutionalized religions to disintegrate and pave way for a more civilized human centered societies.

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