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Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus - Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 Oct 2017

Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus - Encyclopædia Britannica, 10 Oct 2016

Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”

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