“The world is the corpse of the divine, rotting in time and space.”
He utilizes the laws of thermodynamics (specifically entropy) to support his claims. He posits that the universe is winding down, moving from high energy to total entropy (heat death). For Mainländer, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the scientific proof of his philosophy: the universe is actively trying to reach a state of static equilibrium—which is, for him, the state of "Not-Being." philipp mainländer the philosophy of redemption
Mainländer took Nietzsche’s later "God is dead" to a literal, metaphysical extreme. He argued that before the universe existed, there was a "Simple Unity"—an infinite, timeless God. This God, however, found existence to be an unbearable burden and desired non-existence. “The world is the corpse of the divine,