In Nietzsche's view, the death of God must also spell the death of Man—that is to say, the end of a certain lordly, overweening humanism—if absolute power is not simply to be transplanted from the one to the other. Otherwise humanism will always be secretly theological. It will be a continuation of God by other means.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In Nietzsche's view, the death of God must also spell the death of Man—that is to say, the end of a certain lordly, overweening humanism—if absolute power is not simply to be transplanted from the one to the other. Otherwise humanism will always be secretly theological. It will be a continuation of God by other means." in the context of "Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (2009), Chapter 1. The Scum of the Earth" to mean that wisdom is timeless.