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Without Objective Morality, Is Everything Permitted? The Meme, Dostoevsky and Moral Realism
By Markus Uehleke
“Without objective morality, everything is permissible” sounds like a knockout argument, and a sandwich meme made it a joke. The sentence is usually pinned on Dostoevsky, Sartre built existentialism on it, and Nietzsche thought atheists who kept their morals were cheating. Does objective morality need God at all?