Nietzsche wanted people to throw off the shackles of our misguided
Christian morality and become supermen. However, without God he felt that the future of man might spiral into a society of nihilism, devoid of any meaning, his aim was for man to realise the lack of divine purpose and create his own values. A brilliant young man, he was appointed professor at the University of Basel aged 24 having not even finished his degree. His evanescent philosophical life ended 20 years later when he went insane and died shortly afterwards.
