Perry lays out Nietzsche’s well-known insistence that, if God is dead, any and all morality of love and human rights is baseless. If there is no God, argues Nietzsche, Sartre, and others, there can be no good reason to be kind, to be loving, or to work for peace. Perry quotes Philippa Foot who says that secular thinkers accepted the idea that there is no God and no given meaning to human life, but have not “really joined battle with Nietzsche about morality. By and large we have just gone on taking moral judgments for granted as if nothing had happened.”15 Why do we keep on doing this?
