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Running head: TERM PAPER: PHILOSOPHY 1
Argumentation on: Does God Exist?
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TERM PAPER: PHILOSOPHY 2
Argumentation on: Does God Exist?
The existence of God is one of the major debates in Philosophy as well as in popular
culture. Numerous arguments have been put forward by scholars and philosophers and they are
multifaceted in nature (MacIntyre, 2011). Both ontology and epistemology are involved when
the existence of God is questioned, since ‘God’ itself often includes ‘perfection’. Nietzsche
(2013) had stated that God was ‘dead’, and it was this statement that had made him the
influential and popular philosopher that he was during his time (Antalika, 2016). In this paper, I
will state my reasons for believing as to why God does exist, and why Nietzsche’stheory is not
something that can be said to be applicable.
Nietzsche in 1882 had made the remarkable statement, “God is dead”, in his collection of
works, and it had shaken the very foundations of the German nation at that time, since the
country had its ideologies deeply rooted in Christianity and its subsequent beliefs and principles
(Fraser, 2013). The statement is strongly attributed to him, but it was actually Hegel(Josephson-
Storm, 2017) who had discussed it previously, saying that God’s ‘death’ was nothing but “easily
recognized part of the usual Christian cycle of redemption.” It was his student Richard Roth who
was perhaps one of the first philosophers to draw a relationship between secularization and the
idea of the death of God (Williams, 2012).
Nietzsche contemplated that the death of God is the end of morality, reason and meaning
for human beings, as an atheist he was very particular about the implications that his beliefs had
when compared to others. His idea was that it was more liberating than being debilitating, since
he says that it only implies that there are no longer any moral restrictions that would constrain us
humans, which is therefore an occasion of joy and celebration. He revokes the compass of
morality, since for him it is fictive in nature. He stressed the fact that humans and other animals