God Is Dead?: Nietzsche, Morality, and Nigeria’s Search for Meaning
What happens to morality when a society begins to live as though God no longer matters?
Friedrich Nietzsche's famous declaration, "God is dead," remains one of the most provocative statements in modern philosophy. Yet Nietzsche was not simply announcing atheism. He was confronting a deeper crisis: what happens when the religious and moral foundations that once gave direction to society lose their authority?
God Is Dead? Nietzsche, Morality, and Nigeria's Search for Meaning examines Nietzsche's philosophy of nihilism, the will to power, master and slave morality, the bermensch, and the revaluation of values. It then brings these ideas into conversation with the moral, religious, educational, economic, and political challenges confronting contemporary Nigeria.
Drawing from philosophy, Christian thought, ethics, and African social experience, Okoli Cosmas Odinaka asks difficult questions about corruption, political power, moral relativism, religious practice, education, leadership, human dignity, and the common good.
The book does not merely reject Nietzsche. It takes his challenge seriously. If traditional values are weakened, what should replace them? Can society maintain justice, human dignity, responsibility, and meaningful moral standards without a transcendent foundation? And what does it mean for a deeply religious society to profess belief in God while sometimes acting as though God were absent from public and private life?
Written in an accessible yet philosophical style, this book invites students, Christians, clergy, philosophers, political thinkers, and concerned citizens to reflect on the relationship between faith, morality, power, and the search for meaning.
More than a study of Nietzsche, it is a challenge to examine the moral condition of society-and ourselves.
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