Unquestionably, the most dangerous but alluring version of “the courage to be” comes from Friedrich Nietzche and his disciples. “God is dead,” they assert, so meaning is not revealed. Nor can we read it off the pages of the universe, as advocates of the “fiction” of natural law believe. Instead, we start from the abyss of a world without meaning and, by sheer willpower, create our own meaning out of nothing.
