Political Science · Political Theory
Who among the following held the view that 'God is dead'?
AJean-Francois Lyotard
BMichel Foucault
CMartin Heidegger
DFriedrich Nietzsche ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Friedrich Nietzsche — The declaration 'God is dead' belongs to Friedrich Nietzsche, so the answer is Nietzsche.
Explanation
★The declaration 'God is dead' belongs to Friedrich Nietzsche, so the answer is Nietzsche.
★He proclaimed it in The Gay Science and again in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
★It means that belief in the Christian God and absolute values has lost its hold.
★Without that foundation, humanity faces the danger of nihilism, a loss of all meaning.
★Nietzsche urged the creation of new values through the will to power.
★His attack on absolute truth made him a key forerunner of post-modernism.
★Lyotard, Foucault and Heidegger came later and built on his legacy.
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