"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?" Job, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Nietzsche. - The Question of Human Being as an Answer to it

This diploma thesis deals with the issue of the question of the essence of man in the historical1 cross-section from "biblical" times, through the Renaissance to Nietzsche, in conjunction with the interpretation of Nietzsche's relationship to the Old Testament and possible interpretations Nietzsche's Zarathustra. I based this theiss on the question that the God asks Job about his questions, so on the counter-question: "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?"2 At the beginning, I try to define the question and understand what the question is and what it means to us; later, after taking into account the question, I try to apply the question to variations of Job, Mirandola, Nietzsche. Key words Nietzsche, Job, Mirandola, Pascal, Bible, Old Testament, Question, Essence, Man 1 Nie je mi známe, že v angličtine existuje možnosť rozlišovať dejiny a históriu, tak, ako je to možné u nás, alebo v nemecky hovoriacom prostredí (viz die Geschichte/die Historie). 2 Job 38,4