The Atheist's Way: Living Well Without Gods [NOOK Book]

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Overview

In The Atheist's Way, Eric Maisel teaches you how to make rich personal meaning despite the absence of beneficent gods and the indifference of the universe to human concerns Exploding the myth that there is any meaning to find or to seek, Dr. Maisel explains why the paradigm shift from seeking meaning to making meaning is this century's most pressing intellectual goal.
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Overview

In The Atheist's Way, Eric Maisel teaches you how to make rich personal meaning despite the absence of beneficent gods and the indifference of the universe to human concerns Exploding the myth that there is any meaning to find or to seek, Dr. Maisel explains why the paradigm shift from seeking meaning to making meaning is this century's most pressing intellectual goal.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781577318422
  • Publisher: New World Library
  • Publication date: 10/19/2010
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 317,889
  • File size: 759 KB

Table of Contents

Introduction We Embrace Atheism (For Many Reasons) 1

1 We Have Our Traditions (Did You Know That?) 13

2 We Leave Our Churches (If We Formerly Believed) 27

3 We Make Our Own Meaning (What a Remarkable Idea!) 43

4 We Invest Meaning (Another Curious Idea!) 55

5 We Nominate Ourselves (As the Heroes of Our Own Stories) 65

6 We Get Blue Sometimes (Who Doesn't?) 79

7 We Deal With Meaninglessness (Yes, by Making Meaning) 89

8 We Choose Our Meanings (Or Do They Choose Us?) 103

9 We Make Idiosyncratic Meaning Choices (As Is Our Right and Obligation) 115

10 We Maintain Meaning (Daily and Over the Long Haul) 127

11 We Make Our Ethics (As Active Moral Philosophers) 141

12 We Stand Firm (Even While Consternated) 153

Conclusion: We Find Life Amazing (Exactly as It Is) 165

Notes 177

Index 179

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 23, 2012

    If you are truly an atheist, life has no meaning. Even the searc

    If you are truly an atheist, life has no meaning. Even the search for meaning is meaningless. The only ethical foundation would be hedonism. As all the intellectual atheists have stated, such as Nietzsche and Sartre, atheists are engaged in self-deception by looking for a meaning to life. Pretending that your life has meaning is "wish fulfillment."

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 27, 2011

    Ca. Crap

    This .is a book for people who think they are smarter than everone else they are only fooling themsei
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