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]