Single Idea 7190

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

Full Idea

The feeling of value is always antiquated, it expresses a much earlier era's conditions for survival and growth.

Gist of Idea

Our values express an earlier era's conditions for survival and growth

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 10[23])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.181


A Reaction

Nice. I myself grew up in the aftermath of the Second World War. Have I ingested values that were created for that era, and are no longer required?