An Absence of Meaning: The Deeper Reasons for Why by Patrick Foster

March 5, 2017 | Ethics Morality

By Patrick Foster

The deeper reason for the breakdown of civilization, all over the world, is the absence of that means in every one of our lives. Our old worldview not is sensible within the glossy gentle of cause, technological know-how, and evidential pondering, yet we've not get a hold of a substitute. we have now concept for millennia that values needs to come from non secular traditions, yet smooth biology and modern philosophy are actually able to articulate a common ethic in accordance with the evidence of our traditional world.
Our latest, conventional worldview has been accountable for the alienation in every one folks, and until eventually we realize and take care of our typical id, there will be no finish to meaninglessness and its attendant violence. This ebook examines our present worldview and the root of our alienation, and indicates a distinct ontology, epistemology, semantic, psychology, and social constitution for our civilization--suggestions towards the medical fact and the experiential fact we people have painstakingly came upon and towards a which means that fulfills. (Its appendix showcases 5 significant social experiments proper to the reconsideration of our present traditions.)
It is not any longer debatable that our species is at a significant crossroads. Political and financial alterations won't move deep sufficient in altering our attention. we want worldview swap. every one folks now has the accountability of aiding create a brand new worldview, a brand new figuring out of fact, a true foundation for meaning.

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