Thinker · Independent
Nietzsche
1844 – 1900 · Independent · The nineteenth century · 4 works
The man who saw that Europe had quietly stopped believing in God, and spent his sanity trying to work out what a person becomes when the floor under every value is gone. He is not the swaggering atheist of the posters. He is a half-blind, migraine-wracked professor who walked away from the academy, wrote his strangest books alone in mountain boarding houses, and treated the death of God not as good news but as the largest wound in the history of the West, one that nobody had felt yet.
What changed
Before
Our values rest on a foundation: God, reason, or nature guarantees that good is good
After
The foundation is gone, almost nobody has noticed, and there is nothing underneath
Inside the walk-through
The prodigy who walked away
The death of God
Master and slave morality
Will to power, and no facts only interpretations
What comes after: the overman and the eternal return
The wreck and the theft
The works
