Faith in the Earth

"Faith in the Earth" is a concept referred to in the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's mytho-poetic formulation of divinity, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.^[1] A complicated idea with many connotations within its central work, it is the process through which Nietzsche formalizes his idea of amor fati, and most broadly refers to treating the worldly with the same degree of spiritual worship and respect previously given to the divine. It is a related concept to the central idea of Eternal Recurrence that forms the main focus of the work.

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^ "... remain true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of superterrestrial hopes! [bleibt der Erde treu und glaubt Denen nicht, welche euch von überirdischen Hoffnungen reden!]"—Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part I, 1961, p. 42; English translations: Thomas Common in Levy edition, 1905; Tille & Bozman Everyman, 1933; Walter Kaufmann, Viking, 1954; Reg Hollingdale, Penguin, 1961; Graham Parkes, Oxford, 2005; Pippin & DelCaro, Cambridge, 2006

[1] "... remain true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of superterrestrial hopes! [bleibt der Erde treu und glaubt Denen nicht, welche euch von überirdischen Hoffnungen reden!]"—Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part I, 1961, p. 42; English translations: Thomas Common in Levy edition, 1905; Tille & Bozman Everyman, 1933; Walter Kaufmann, Viking, 1954; Reg Hollingdale, Penguin, 1961; Graham Parkes, Oxford, 2005; Pippin & DelCaro, Cambridge, 2006

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Works	The Birth of Tragedy On the Pathos of Truth Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense Untimely Meditations Hymnus an das Leben Human, All Too Human The Dawn of Day Idylls from Messina The Gay Science Thus Spoke Zarathustra Beyond Good and Evil On the Genealogy of Morality The Case of Wagner Twilight of the Idols The Antichrist Ecce Homo Dionysian-Dithyrambs Nietzsche contra Wagner The Will to Power (posthumous)
Concepts and philosophy	Amor fati Apollonian and Dionysian Eternal return Faith in the Earth God is dead Herd instinct Immaculate perception Last man Master–slave morality Nietzschean affirmation Perspectivism Ressentiment Transvaluation of values Tschandala Übermensch Will to power World riddle
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