No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life

Friedrich Nietzche on Nihilism and the death of God (1x10)

Date de diffusion: Jan 01, 2000

Friedrich Nietzsche blames Plato and the Judeo-Christian tradition for "nihilism," and praises the ancient Greeks of Homeric epic and Periclean Athens. Claiming that "God is dead," Nietzsche offers an alternative to Jesus in the form of the "this-worldly" Persian prophet Zarathustra.