In closing the coffin-lid on objective value, humanity has opened Pandora’s box. We no longer find the solution to the problems of life in “knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue,” but increasingly in willpower, technological control, and surgical alteration of nature to suit our own convenience. This is “the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce” (75).
