21) The consequences of this are that life and values are stripped of their a priori meaning. With the absence of god all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears along with him. "Nowhere is it written that we must be honest, that we must not lie ," (22) or that man must be anything besides what he wills himself to be. What strips life of it's a priori meaning and causes man to be forlorn is that everything is permissible if God does not exist because neither within him nor without does he find anything to cling to" (22). Without the existence of God man loses the ability to make excuses for himself and is condemned to the responsibility of his own
21) The consequences of this are that life and values are stripped of their a priori meaning. With the absence of god all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears along with him. "Nowhere is it written that we must be honest, that we must not lie ," (22) or that man must be anything besides what he wills himself to be. What strips life of it's a priori meaning and causes man to be forlorn is that everything is permissible if God does not exist because neither within him nor without does he find anything to cling to" (22). Without the existence of God man loses the ability to make excuses for himself and is condemned to the responsibility of his own