Nietzsche’s Übermensch, “God is Dead,” and Nihilism | Gentleman Thinker
Time for some Nietzsche! What is Nihilism, what is an übermensch, and what does it mean to say “God is Dead?” This is the backdrop to the Will to Power!
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@JAM84-k5d
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
ok
@allykat5899
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Remember people the camp is that space that opens up when the state of exception becomes the rule.
@evasampaio8776
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
🦋
@paramidge8935
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Sorry man – not adequate – where is your thorough analysis of Fred's Real work? Most philosophers struggle with this one. Delueze probably took it furthest. What do you say? For starters that whole nonsense about Nazis – Nietsche's sister and all that.
@justinkerrigan5863
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Why don’t you ever go in-depth about nietzsche ? Oh wait that’s right he doesn’t fit your agenda
@lasmejoradas
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Life is meaningless so we can give it meaning, not by loathing around because everything is pointless; just make a point in your life!
@cubirk
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Religion is meh
Cience is neat
Nihilism is nihilism
@xczechr
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Nietzsche is peachy.
@TheAsinum
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
"Frederic" Nietzsche?!?!? I mean are you kidding me? Thats far from how Friedrich is actually pronounced…
@chrissxMedia
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
ubermensch? ü. üüüübermensch!
@emilioluburic5982
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
o nzi Hitleru kad je to na neki način i bilo o kiseoniku i brkovima,o masturbaciji9 jer te nijedna ni neće o idealnoj glavi Reich u srcu.
@emilioluburic5982
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Ima i seljaka da se računa pa si ubermensch o kuvaniji i prirodnimodgojnim znanostima.
@thepotato405
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
I've had an idea philosophy tube please respond.
On existentialism
If existance precedes essence then how is it life is what it is? If our existance precedes what it means "to be" then how are we or anything not something out of absurdity much like a rock made out of foam or a turtle from an egg not made out of rock? There is not a thing in this world which exists that in potentiality * Taking from st Thomas aquinas theory of potentiality and current state* (i.e. a turtle egg is potentially a turtle in its nature or a chicken egg is in potentiality a chicken) is not something that exists in actuality following its potential base. If existance were to precede "being" then it would make sense that a turtle egg become an octopus or anything at all, even things unknown to us, like a new color and the world would be in flux. Plato and Aristotle taught that it was the essentia which made things what they are (the nature of reality) and if we flip the two then out of existentia all is but flux in potentiality but we do not see this flux in the world.
Much like a man is made at every point from something in its nature like the sperm or the egg there is not a moment in which something (i.e. sperm or egg) create a something that is not human and not a moment in which it exists that is not potentially human. And their hosts (your mom and dad) were likewise made the same. It could be said about them going back through evolution to the first being or even the first cause (as every effect has a natrual cause) but nothing out of this world comes from something that in its essence the essentia comes from something outside its nature that happens to exist before having a nature to define what it is. so to exist or existentia cannot precede the essentia or its nature.
Thoughts?
@johnlopperman2161
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
"IT" was never alive, but as in infected, scatter-brained human minds, so contaminated/inflicted/indoctrinated at early age upon defenseless children before they have a clue as to reality, before their natural skepticism has formed to protect them from such transparent scams.
An uninfected, rational adult is unlikely to swallow such absurd claptrap, so distant from reality that questions the sanity of theistic believers and the honesty of their apologetics.
@zName1
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
This is too short to be useful.
@keanunmoskaluk3518
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
GOD IS DEAD AND THE BRITTISH EMPIRE KILLED HIM
@Sjohof99
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Ubermann = Pagan, Uncivilized, Non Domesticated man.
Understand that the gods and myths were only about you and yourself and not some sort of stupid magic tale like christianity or other desert bullshits, which led to the noncurance of the earth destroying our future more and more. "We have not inherited Thule from our ancestors, we have borrowed it from our children"
@celtman58
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Could GOD exist by accident? That is that GOD in fact does exist,perhaps as exactly described in your favorite holy book, but
that there is no necessity for him to do so and that the world could have been such that he did not in the same way that the world would be much the same if your next door neighbor had never been born.
@Zarakendog
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Nietzsche was not a nihilist
@Exodus26.13Pi
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Wait until you discover earth is flat.
@asbestosfish_
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
I'm trying to understand the difference between nihilism and absurdism.
@Leibo07
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 pm
And don't forget, boys and girls, that crazy old Fritz was a hysterical amateur would-be philosopher who gave ever so much inspiration to all that you really don't groove: eugenics, elitism, imperialism, racism and fascism (o yes!).
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