What for Nietzsche is the Meaning of the Death of God?

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) has born as a philologist and not as a philosopher, even though his innovating way of thinking, influenced remarkably the view on the meaning of life within the whole modern Europe.
It is considered one of those great minds, as Marx and Freud, which have been able to create a new ideology to rely on, to create a new perspective both socially and psychologically, to give human kind a chance to open to the true consciousness, to revaluate the ethics of life and the true moral values.
Nietzsche represents the philosophy of symbolism and metaphor, sometimes more clear and detailed, some other times more fragmentary and poetic.
In order to progress within the psychological asset of the world’s big picture, Nietzsche relies on ‘historical philosophizing’ which he considered as the first attempt to draw the consequences of human history intellectual epochs; his main works focus on the political and social situation in Europe, particularly within Germany during the 19th century, which according to the philosopher, expresses the psychological realm of human beings, during his epoch.
To truly understand the aim of his philosophy, it is necessary to explore the meaning of one of his most famous claims, namely the Death of God, still widely discussed.
At first, it is very interesting that such a claim derives from a man, Nietzsche, born in a family of Lutheran ministers, someone grown up within a religious setting, who has been studying theology and the others main holy books. In Nietzsche’s case, instead of increasing his faith in religion, his investigative essence played the role of leading to consider himself the first perfect Nihilist. I will come back to this point hereinafter.
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