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https://doi.org/10.31192/np.20.2.2
Metaphysical Implications of the Death of God in the Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche
Daniel Miščin
orcid.org/0000-0003-0422-3124
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of philosophy and religious sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Tomislav Bunoza
orcid.org/0000-0002-4872-1611
Abstract
The article is rooted in the premise that, with his proclamation of the death of God in the 125th fragment of The Gay Science, Nietzsche is not a subversive who breaks the news no one had heard before. He is more like a diagnostician of the spirit of the time in which that revelation has appeared. In that context, the article analyzes three fundamental metaphysical implications of this revelation. These are: the will to power, perspectivism and metaphysical homelessness. Observing these implications in their relation to the whole of Nietzsche’s oeuvre and its fundamental ideas, it can be argued that they are mutually coherent. The third of these metaphysical implications, homelessness, proves to be symbolic and actually the most important of the three. The roots of connecting the metaphysical homelessness with the idea of God’s death can also be recognized in Nietzsche’s often overlooked early reading, i.e. his affinity for the works of Jean Paul, the writer of German Romanticism.
Keywords
death of God; Friedrich Nietzsche; Jean Paul; the metaphysical homelessness; will to power
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Publication date:
15.7.2022.
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