"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him"
Nietzsche (Kaufmann, 105)
By this statement, he does not resort to a physical death, since there has never been a physical God, but instead the death of an ascribed morality, or outdated set of beliefs that were “etched in stone” regarding appropriate behavior, moral mental analysis (or “lack thereof”), and mythically orlegendarily “trained” responses.
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(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
again to point out though that although (as expressed by Nietzsche, Sartre, et al) there is no set of higher values, the challenge is to rise above the possible quietism that this condition may cause. Values may now be socially trained or individually based, but again even biology states that the imperative is for one to work towards social order. And personally it doesn’t discount (for me at least) the existence of a divine; only that the divine equipped humanity possibly with the tools to self police. Humanism… mmmm…
