Nietzsche'nin Düşüncesinde "Tanrı'nın Ölümü"

There are different ways to approach to Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought, but the best way is perhaps to start with his notion of “death of God”, which is the cornerstone of his metaphysics. Instead of being a simple expression of atheism, it is an announcement with deep meaning and rich implications. It denotes that all values directing our lives have “devalued” themselves. It reveals any disguise of the Western thought from Plato to the nineteenth century, and refers to the loss of belief in Christian ethics and God, and nihilism, and “the end of the Western metaphysics”. It is the forerunner of the contemporary thinking forms and life styles in which God is not taken into account