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IS GOD DEAD?
Ali Engineer, Asghar
Ali Engineer, Asghar
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Engineer_Is_God_Dead.pdf
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"It is Nietzsche, a German philosopher who said ‘God is dead’ but one does not know what exactly he meant by this statement. Was he rationalist as most of the rationalists in 19th century turned atheists thinking that ultimate mystery of the universe and its creation would soon be discovered. New scientific discoveries made them hopeful. However, that hope remains still a hope and has not become reality. Or did he say this in the sense that moral values were dead and God represents ultimate values like God being ultimate justice or ultimate compassion or ultimate love and so on? Or did he say in the sense that we no more need any values, much less its source God and what ultimately matters is power, not morality. Nietzsche after all did believe in a superior race who has right to rule. It is said that he provided inspiration to Nazis who also believed in a superior race of Aryans. It is interesting to note that Iqbal was also attracted by Nietzsche’s doctrine of power, though not of superior race which did not have to follow any morals. Iqbal believed in power with morality as a Muslim and hence he describes Nietzsche as one whose mind is kafir (non-believer) but heart is believer. Whatever Nietzsche meant the question remains is God dead? The Answer in my opini9on is definite ‘no’ in whatever sense we take Nietzsche’s statement."(PG 1)
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