Gay Science (Book Review Sample)

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Introduction
Friedrich Nietzsche was at an early age influenced by Schopenhauer, whom he discovered in 1865. Schopenhauer puts a strong emphasis on the will and in particular has a theory of the “will to live.” Friedrich tries to cover the aspect of God in two directions. He looks at it in the direction that the belief in God is deluded and also considered that the existence of a supreme being is an existence that can be considered. Nietzsche used his book to expand on the idea of “Desire for power” which is the pleasure of the feeling of power. In a way, he wants to acknowledge the existence of a higher power. The paper will analytically look at these two directions of thinking in the book the Gay Science.
Hume and Nietzche have a considerable amount of things in common. Of great interest is that both can be characterized as philosophers who are concerned with human nature. These two philosophers share a number of mind that is naturalistic, skeptical and anti-metaphysical. Both are critics of religion. Hume and Nietzsche radical front concerning the moral critiques of the Christian religious tradition. The ethical basis of these critiques is also quite similar. Both vehemently maintain that Christian methodology and morality are not conducive to human flourishing. In the book Gay Science, there is a theme of God is dead (Nietzsche, 108) “New Struggles," (Nietzsche, 125)“The Madman," and for the third time (Nietzsche, 343) “The Meaning of our Cheerfulness."
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?” (Nietzsche, 125) Nietzsche puts out the claims that God is dead and the idea that humans killed him. What he is trying to propagate through this theory is the lack of an organized morality and that humans are selfless in saving their own agendas and in according to their own wants and need and no longer in regard to what God would desire. Nietzsche's ideas could also be speaking in terms of science. He claims that the fact that humans have science and technology, they no longer have a need to follow God. A claim that is rooted on the ground that the God they would be following has no evidence presented as being existent as the science that presents evidence of the existence of any claim presented. Nietzsche believes that a lack of God is advantageous in so many angles. Looking at it in through the angle that thing could be dealt with in a way that results in positive changes to society. The lack of a higher power in so many ways promote creativity in humans and also because of the limitlessness of possibilities empowers humans (Hume).
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