Author: Ronald Aronson
Ronald Aronson is the author of the book Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided (Counterpoint, 2008), from which this excerpt is adapted. He is distinguished professor of the History of Ideas at Wayne State University.
Taking Responsibility for Ourselves
What does it mean to live without God today? Surely that has to do with responsibility: taking it and ascribing it. Yet here we are wrestling with the Sphinx’s riddle for the twenty-first century: What kind of being is it that is profoundly free and yet whose decisions and actions are profoundly affected by forces …