Single Idea 4502

[catalogued under 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality]

Full Idea

Morality cannot survive when the God who sanctions it is missing! The "beyond" is absolutely necessary if faith in morality is to be maintained.

Gist of Idea

Morality cannot survive when the God who sanctions it is missing

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §253)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.147


A Reaction

It strikes me that Nietzsche is self-evidently wrong. We must ask why people hang on to moral absolutes after they lose religious faith. Nietzsche seems to think it is a comfort blanket. But he admits the contractarian origins of morality.

Related Idea

Idea 7136 Morality is a system of values which accompanies a being's life [Nietzsche]