Single Idea 18297

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics]

Full Idea

Man first implanted values into things to maintain himself - he first created the meaning of things, a human meaning!

Gist of Idea

We created meanings, to maintain ourselves

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra [1884], 1.16)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1969], p.85


A Reaction

It is certainly hard to see anything resembling values or meaning in the cosmos, if you remove the human beings. We should expect an evolutionary grounding in their explanation.