Friedrich Nietzsche is considered by many to be the father of postmodernism or more precisely constructivism. But in fact, 'God was dying' (in western thought) long before Nietzsche made his bold proclamation.
Michael Horton writes:
"God was displaced by the self-conscious ego in Descartes and then deported to the unknowable noumenal realm by Kant. Why then retain a 'noumenon' that cannot be known? Hegal asked. So, quite sensibly, Nietzsche wiped the 'other world' from the horizon to make room for this world, just as his predecessors had removed God from the center of being and knowing in order to made room for the autonomous self. Nietzsche's move, and that of his a/theological successors, is hardly antimodern or postmodern, but is the consummation of modernity's eschatological plot." (Eschatology and Covenant, pg. 23)
Nietzsche just called the elephant in the room what no one else would... an elephant.
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Michael Horton writes:
"God was displaced by the self-conscious ego in Descartes and then deported to the unknowable noumenal realm by Kant. Why then retain a 'noumenon' that cannot be known? Hegal asked. So, quite sensibly, Nietzsche wiped the 'other world' from the horizon to make room for this world, just as his predecessors had removed God from the center of being and knowing in order to made room for the autonomous self. Nietzsche's move, and that of his a/theological successors, is hardly antimodern or postmodern, but is the consummation of modernity's eschatological plot." (Eschatology and Covenant, pg. 23)
Nietzsche just called the elephant in the room what no one else would... an elephant.
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