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Atheism and the Meaning of Life

As Hans Blumenberg has shown, a major characteristic of the Occidental thought tradition is the rootedness of its fundamental structures of meaningfulness in transcendence. Since the expansion of Christianity, this rootedness is guaranteed by a transcendent God. This radical dependence upon structures of transcendence as the ultimate resources of meaning becomes most eloquently obvious at the wake of Modernity when Christian...