meaning – Albert Norton, author

The Form of the Forms

AlbertOctober 22, 2016October 23, 2016

For many Christians, the existence of God is self-evident, reconfirmed in a thousand ways, and so there’s a tendency not to spend too much time on the introductory course, the “why I know there’s a God 101” course. It’s good to do so, however. Let’s consider now the purpose and design we instinctively impute to […]

Evasion

AlbertJune 18, 2016October 23, 2016

Albert Camus famously suggested that suicide is the central question of philosophy. We discussed this in the post Is Life Worth Living? There is no God, Camus believed, so there is no meaning to life. We are to live, according to Camus, acknowledging this fact, but finding a reason to live nonetheless. Is life worth living? Atheists […]

The Materialist Epoch

AlbertAugust 4, 2015October 23, 2016

The Pagan and Christian Epochs The predominant worldview in the west before Christianity was paganism, which assumed the existence of something beyond the here-and-now of matter in space and time; gods who must be honored in their prescribed ways and seasons, for orderly human life. We discussed this in The Pagan Epoch. That “something beyond” […]