Forever Learning Institute

A parable from Frederick Nietzsche: A madman careens into a village marketplace shouting, God is dead, God is dead. The villagers, bemused and astonished, jeer and point to this bizarre figure. To them, the madman adds, and it is you who have killed our deity. It is clear: the madman is Nietzsche and we are the villagers. Today, we would be well advised to reflect on this. To Nietzsche’s charge, the great thinker Martin Heidegger responds, devoting a lifetime’s thought to “reconfigure” the divine to a godless Europe. How this came to be is the subject of this course. Come, then, and enter the thought of Heidegger and follow him as he works his way to the divine. Reading text: TBA and handouts. $5 copy fee.