Word: deitiesâ
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...arises from a weakness of mind and therefore does not appertain to the use of reason/' But it was soon clear that reason alone could not answer all man's questions, could not provide what he desperately needs: order and purpose in the universe. And so man invented substitute deities???History, the State, Environment. But in the end all these only led back to the" nearly unbearable message that man is alone in a meaningless cosmos, subject only to the blind forces of evolution and responsible only to himself. As Kirilov puts it in Dostoevsky's The Possessed: "If there...
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