Modernity
and Nietzsche
Throughout many centuries philosophers have tried to explain
the nature of reality and the order that exists within the universe around us.
The purpose of this paper is to first trace the developments that led up to
modernity. Next I will react to the claim made by Fredrick Nietzsche that “God
is dead” from a Biblical perspective.
Philosophers have attempted to answer that question of what reality is and how
to answer the questions that everyone faced. The first philosopher Thales held that water was the source of life and death.
This is how the earliest philosophers explained the cycle of life and death
that they saw happening all around them. Heraclitus
later thought that fire was the prime element, and Democritus believed it to be
atoms.
