Nietzsche’s Numen

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers in the modern/postmodern world. He was a German atheistic thinker most associated with the philosophy of nihilism, particularly of the moral and existential variety. As an atheist he is one of the most intellectually honest and committed to the entailments of his worldview. As a gifted evocative and provocative writer he masterfully expressed his views through his many literary works. In one of such pieces he wrote at the time a very prescient allegory of where Western society was heading, from which came the infamous phrase “the death of God.” His haunting spectre remains in the following words: