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Post by tomgilson on Oct 23, 2008 1:55:09 GMT
Oh, for more of the honesty of Nietzsche today, he who most certainly did not say, "stop worrying and get on with your life." Though he got the answer wrong, at least he knew the question mattered!
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Post by humphreyclarke on Oct 23, 2008 9:35:07 GMT
Yes, it is thoroughly naive to think that you can delete the concept of God and not work through the consequences. You can continue with the same categories of thinking but Nietzsche's insight was to claim that without God, these would eventually fade away. In the recent crop of atheists Michel Onfray is the only one to recognise this fact and make it the focal point of his writings.
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Post by slide on Oct 23, 2008 23:26:23 GMT
What about that fellow John Gray? He seems to regard Secular Humanism as a sort of Christianity lite with all the God stuff taken out. I wonder will it even matter, despite the religion that so heavily formed it being increasingly removed has the western view of the world reached a 'critical mass'. Where it has become a global moral religion that no one will ever deviate from simply because they find themselves in a world in which they are out-numbered?
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Post by humphreyclarke on Oct 24, 2008 13:06:55 GMT
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