(August 20, 2010 at 3:17 am)padraic Wrote:(August 20, 2010 at 2:00 am)everythingafter Wrote:(August 17, 2010 at 2:32 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote:
Entertaining. I thought atheism was the disbelief in god, not a god who apparently existed at some point and then died. That would be a sad affair. lol
Atheism is merely a disbelief in god(s) there are no conditions.
There's an old joke beloved of apologists:
God is dead (Sartre)
Sartre is dead (God)
There was indeed a popular 'God is dead' school of thought in the 1960's. A natural progression of existential philosophy for some.(Hence the Sartre joke) I think was it was actually Neitzsche who made the claim,viz that God was killed by the enlightenment. Sartre simply accepted the claim. I think that's about right; it's about 35 year since I read any philosophy. (I don't count Dawkins or Hitchens)
Yes, that was Nietzsche.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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