Category: What Really Matters
Introduction: From an Unlikely Quarter, a New View of the Is-Ought Problem
“The subjective sense of mattering may be the reality toward which all those sterile controversies about an objective meaning in life were ointing all along.”
Mattering Matters
“Not only does religion offer us an immateriality allegedly shared by God and his heavenly hosts, it also offers us cosmic mattering, and it doesn’t get any bigger than that.”
This article is available for free to all.The Mattering Instinct: Religion, Humanism, and the Roots of Ideological Derangement
“How, one might ask, can humanism compete with worldviews that exploit the power of myth?”