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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] |