(Originally Written April 1, 2009 in the Journal)
Books to Explore
Viking History
Heimskringla (History of the Kings of Norway) - Snorri Sturluson
Voltaire
The Fables of Reason: A study of Voltaire's contes philosophiques - Roger Pearson
La Religion de Voltaire - Rene Pomeau
D'Arouet a Voltaire- Rene Pomeau
Voltaire & English Literature, Studies on Voltaire and the 18th Century
Voltaire en toutes lettres
Voltaire: A biography - Haydn Mason
Voltaire - Haydn Mason
Voltaire dans ses Contes - Jacques Van den Heuvel
Disabled Powers: A Reading of Voltaire's Contes - Robin Howells
Complete Works (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation) - Voltaire
Existentialism
Soren Kierkegaard
Jean-Paul Sartre
Martin Heidegger
Karl Jaspers
Paul Tillich
Other Books
Personal Knowledge - Michael Polanyi
Lectures on the Religious Thought of S. Kierkegaard - E.O. Geisman
Kierkegaard - Walter Lowrie
A Short Life of Kierkegaard - Walter Lowrie
Something about Kierkegaard - David Swanson
What is Existentialism - William Barrett
An Introduction to contemporary German Philosophy - Werner Brock
Existentialism - Guido Ruggiero
The Future of Mankind - Karl Jaspers
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Can Man Live Without God - Chapter 7
(Originally written September 18, 2005 in Book 1)
Can Man Live Without God?
Ravi Zacharias
1994
Chapter Seven - The science of knowing and the art of living
The what and why of life are bound together. Is the meaning of life the same for all or, "are we condemned to wallow in culturally relative quotients, ever changing the point of reference and relegating meaning to the sense of happiness or to how one feels at a given moment?" (Zacharias, 67). The world has reduced the meaning of life to this quotation.
Michael Polanyi states that science gives us normative knowledge, while poetry, art and religion give us meaning. Polanyi continues to say that society gives meaning to science and if it is reversed, science is in danger of destroying life. (Read Michael Polanyi's book Meaning)
By reducing the world to its atomic level, science has made the search for meaning a meaningless pursuit. The search for meaning however, is not a meaningless pursuit. It is the essence of our very beings. Science may answer the 'hows' of life, but it leaves us empty because it cannot answer the 'whys'.
People look for meaning in their four stages of life, regardless towards their faith in any religion, god or science. They search in childhood, adolescence, young adulthood and maturity alike.
Can Man Live Without God?
Ravi Zacharias
1994
Chapter Seven - The science of knowing and the art of living
The what and why of life are bound together. Is the meaning of life the same for all or, "are we condemned to wallow in culturally relative quotients, ever changing the point of reference and relegating meaning to the sense of happiness or to how one feels at a given moment?" (Zacharias, 67). The world has reduced the meaning of life to this quotation.
Michael Polanyi states that science gives us normative knowledge, while poetry, art and religion give us meaning. Polanyi continues to say that society gives meaning to science and if it is reversed, science is in danger of destroying life. (Read Michael Polanyi's book Meaning)
By reducing the world to its atomic level, science has made the search for meaning a meaningless pursuit. The search for meaning however, is not a meaningless pursuit. It is the essence of our very beings. Science may answer the 'hows' of life, but it leaves us empty because it cannot answer the 'whys'.
People look for meaning in their four stages of life, regardless towards their faith in any religion, god or science. They search in childhood, adolescence, young adulthood and maturity alike.
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