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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 Ref
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.
| 6217 | Natural law is supplied to the human mind by reality and human nature [Cumberland] |
| 6924 | Plotinus was ashamed to have a body [Feuerbach] |
| 1568 | Nietzsche felt that Plato's views downgraded the human body and its brevity of life [Nietzsche, by Roochnik] |
| 7147 | Values are innate and inherited [Nietzsche] |
| 7190 | Our values express an earlier era's conditions for survival and growth [Nietzsche] |
| 18297 | We created meanings, to maintain ourselves [Nietzsche] |
| 22660 | Evolution suggests prevailing or survival as a new criterion of right and wrong [James] |
| 23431 | Human defects are just like plant or animal defects [Foot] |
| 22187 | Genetic behaviours that have enhanced human success include aggression, rape and xenophobia [Wilson,EO, by Okasha] |
| 23515 | Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth] |