Re:“Brainy” mice raise hope of better treatments for cogniti...
by jkyle on Saturday August 22, 2015 @11:39PM
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> But if everybody's defining their own values, then a bunch of people are going to define their values very selfishly.
There are only two options: define morality for yourself, and own it completely, or allow someone else to define it for you.
Morality is a construct that stems solely from man. What Nietzsche condemns is accepting the morality of others like sheep instead of critically. You cannot own a moral construct until you have fully evaluated that construct and accepted its consequences yourself.
Further, he claimed that a morality based on what happens after you die is bereft of any real meaning. He advocated a morality rooted in the human condition and defined by its relation to humanity, not its relation to dead gods as defined by moral potentates.
There are only two options: define morality for yourself, and own it completely, or allow someone else to define it for you.
Morality is a construct that stems solely from man. What Nietzsche condemns is accepting the morality of others like sheep instead of critically. You cannot own a moral construct until you have fully evaluated that construct and accepted its consequences yourself.
Further, he claimed that a morality based on what happens after you die is bereft of any real meaning. He advocated a morality rooted in the human condition and defined by its relation to humanity, not its relation to dead gods as defined by moral potentates.