However, all of these ideas revolve around the idea that they is a total set of absolute rules, Nietzsche rejects this belief, and discusses the Death of God. .
All ones ideas of Romanticism, teleological narratives, and the like rely one key factor the existence of moral absolutes. It is these supreme rules that Nietzsche rejects with his idea that God is dead. Although in the context of his writing in the madman, is may seem that Nietzsche is referring to the Christian God, it is easy to see that he is calling for a rejection of the entire set of moral absolutes. It is in this idea that all the yearnings for a better world become useless. Nietzsche discusses the reasons for why one would even believe that in the first place. It is not a matter of truth, rather a filling of need. He then speaks of the genealogies of ideas, or the family trees of ones beliefs. An example with Christianity, would state that in a community with intense suffering a group of people made an attempt to turn that suffering into a virtue, and then that idea spread and caught on with those who suffered until it became almost the acceptable rule. Yet, even in this set of beliefs, the foundation turns on interpretations of interpretations. As this view gets passed down through generations, the first interpretations are forgotten, or become mute points to the believers, and reality becomes merely an understanding, or Perspectivism, where reality is known only in terms of the perspectives of individuals or groups who make the perception. However, without any moral rules to live, according to Nietzsche causes a great feeling of depression in people. To combat this misery, the initial reaction is to try and replace God, with a surrogate term. For a vast majority, the turn is to science and its attempt to explain everything in the terms of what is true, or "really real." Yet in Nietzsche's view this again becomes a falsity, because we try to create the world in an image of ourselves.
