and work them over into new, original perspectives expressing a unique, creative intent. This is how an artist perceives life. To believe in God, is to believe in a certain comforting order to the way things are. Nietzsche's belief, is that there is no order that we should be constricting ourselves to. Nietzsche toys with the idea that what exists out there in reality, the ultimate "truth" about the world, might be what we regard as "chaos". He takes note that we could never prove God to be indefinitely true. Perhaps we should stop trying. Perhaps, only then, can we "dance even by abysses".(p.147, Existentialism) When we stop worrying about the ideas or rules of a commander, or a God, we are truly free, and as Nietzsche writes, "Every daring act of the knower is allowed again. The sea, our sea lies open there again; maybe there was never before such an open sea." (p.141, Nietzsche) Nietzsche, in this quote, is trying to say that once God, or order, is out of our lives, we take our lives back. When we are free from this form of self- enslavement, we begin to realize that our lives are open to experiences and cravings that are natural instincts. This is when we become who we truly are. "The secret," he writes, " to reaping the greatest fruitfulness and enjoyment from existence is to live dangerously." (p. 135, Nietzsche) Nietzsche hopes that through his claim that "God is dead," people will be set free from slavery. They will no longer feel the need to conform to the ideas if others. In other words, they will be leaders not followers, creators of their own lives. Sartre, in The Humanism of Existentialism, states that he represents atheistic existentialism. He writes, " It states that if God does not exist, there is at least one being in whom existence precedes essence, a being whom exists before he can be defined by any concept, and this being is man" ( p. 270, Existentialism) Sartre expresses his view man, through living, ...
