I’ve written before about finding meaning in family, and art, and the world and Universe entire. But is that enough? Freud said “Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination”. This echoes Tolstoy: “One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work...
There’s a false dichotomy often thrown up by apologists for religion: those of us who champion the virtue of rationality are labelled as “materialists”, who ignore humanity’s spiritual needs, leading necessarily to an empty and joyless existence. Set against us materialists are the world’s various religions, concerned utterly with spiritual experience (so they claim)...
First, a disclaimer: I am about as far from a bible scholar as one could be and still think about religious matters. It is only recently, and with great reluctance, that I downloaded the King James onto my iPhone. The closest I’ve got to reading the bible in the past was when I had...
I see that, despite the overwhelmingly positive submissions about the provision of secular ethics classes as an alternative to an hour of idleness for children whose parents don’t want them to sit through weekly religious indoctrination in school time, the NSW opposition has come out saying they will stop them if they are elected...
Friday Filisophy has had a bit of an unplanned hiatus, which I shall begin to rectify, at least a little, today. I think, read, and watch a fair bit relating at least tangentially to meaning: the meaning and purpose of our lives. In a way that’s the biggest question for every one of us;...
