Abstract

The article reconstructs Nietzsche’s “Got is dead” conception, giving it a new broader context by explicit emphasing the evolution of this idea in the latest writings of the philosopher. The question in the title “If the cross is an argument” is a pretext for reflection on the border between philosophy and theology which poses the ultimate question why the cross is an object of worship and how event of Calvary reads Nietzsche, symbolically. The author juxtaposes two perspectives the death of God: by Nietzsche and this, which is present in Protestant theology, and he finds in both universal philosophical conclusions. This cross from the title is a symbol of contact with divinity available for human, and makes possible too a creation of new man – the superman.