Evidences: Nietzsche-God is Dead, and other views

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/nietzsche-god-is-dead/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p><strong>Life of Nietzsche</strong></p><ul><li>Born, 1844 in Röcken, Prussia.</li><li>Father and both grandfathers clergymen.</li><li>Father dies, after suffering mental illness, 1848.</li><li>Leaves theology school, 1865.</li><li>Physical and mental collapse, 1879.</li><li>Writes <i>The Antichrist</i> (vitriolic anti-Christian polemic), 1888.</li><li>Enters state of vegetative insanity, 1889.</li><li>Dies, probably of syphilis, 1900.</li></ul><p><strong>Nietzsche's better-known writings:</strong></p><ul><li><i>The Birth of Tragedy</i> (1872)      </li><li><i>Meditations</i> (1873-76)</li><li><i>Thus Spake Zarathustra</i> (1878)                                 </li><li><i>Beyond Good and Evil</i> (1886)<br /> </li><li><i>The Antichrist</i> (1888, pub. 1895)<br /> </li><li><i>The Will to Powe</i>r (1901, posthumously)</li></ul><p><strong>"God is Dead"</strong></p><ul><li>Nietzsche was brought up with/around a certain degree of faith -- which he rejected.</li><li>No God, no morality.</li><li>[Note 1: Classical Buddhism correctly understands that moral distinctions are false: there is no God, and category distinctions are empty.]</li><li>[Note 2:  Without God, there can be no ultimate meaning, since nothing transcends this life, this world.]    </li></ul><p><i><strong>Beyond Good and Evil </strong></i>(excerpts, unless otherwise noted)</p><ul><li>Morality:<ul><li>IV.108. "There is no such thing as a moral phenomenon, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.”</li><li>291. "The whole of morality is a long, audacious falsification."</li></ul></li><li>Insight:<ul><li>146. "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”</li><li>156. "Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."</li><li>