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1844 – 1900
Friedrich Nietzsche
Worth knowing
- The son of a Lutheran pastor, who became professor of classical philology at Basel at twenty-four.
- In The Joyful Wisdom (1882) a madman announces that God is dead, and tells the unbelievers laughing at him that they do not yet understand what they have lost.
- He argued that without God the morality Christianity taught has no foundation, and he despised atheists who kept it anyway.
- He collapsed in Turin in 1889, never recovered his mind, and died in 1900.
In Scholar’s Dream, Friedrich Nietzsche has two books
Who else was alive
Friedrich Nietzsche against everyone else in the game.