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Man Made God: The Meaning of Life

Man Made God: The Meaning of Life

Ferry, Luc
Pellauer, David

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0226244857
ISBN13: 9780226244853
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 15 2002
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What happens when the meaning of life based on a divine revelation no longer makes sense? Does the quest for transcendence end in the pursuit of material success and self-absorption?

Luc Ferry argues that modernity and the emergence of secular humanism in Europe since the eighteenth century have not killed the search for meaning and the sacred, or even the idea of God, but rather have transformed both through a dual process: the humanization of the divine and the divinization of the human. Ferry sees evidence for the first of these in the Catholic Church's attempts to counter the growing rejection of dogmatism and to translate the religious tradition into contemporary language. The second he traces to the birth of modern love and humanitarianism, both of which demand a concern for others and even self-sacrifice in defense of values that transcend life itself. Ferry concludes with a powerful statement in favor of what he calls transcendental humanism--a concept that for the first time in human history gives us access to a genuine spirituality rooted in human beings instead of the divine.

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