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 A Guide or the Godless
Te Secular Path to Meaning
 Andrew KernohanPublished by the AuthorHaliax, Nova Scotia2008
 
Tis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.o view a copy o this license, visithttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/or send a letter toCreative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor,San Francisco, Caliornia, 94105, USA  Andrew KernohanDepartment o Philosophy Dalhousie University Haliax, Nova ScotiaCanadaElectronic Editionhttp://myweb.dal.ca/kernohan/godlessPrint EditionKernohan, Andrew ISBN 0-9780350-0-3http://www.lulu.com /content/16733502008
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Kernohan, Andrew A guide or the godless: the secular path to meaning / Andrew Kernohan.Includes bibliographical reerences and index.ISBN 0-9780350-0-31. Conduct o lie. 2. Ethics. I. itle.BD431.K425 2008 170’.44 C2008-900465-5
 
PREFACE
My aim, in this book, is to apply recent thinking inphilosophy to the age-old problem o the meaning o lie, andto do so in a way that is accessible to the general reader. I joined the Godless in my teens when I ound that I could nolonger believe in the religion o my upbringing. Worries aboutthe meaningulness o lie were what originally led me to phi-losophy. In studying philosophy ormally, however, I was soonsidetracked by other issues. Despite popular perception, very ew academic philosophers do proessional work specically onthe meaning o lie. Recently, though, I have wondered i tech-nical work in other areas o philosophy might have somethinghelpul to say about living a meaningul lie. Tis book is theresult.Explaining what I ound requires that I describe philo-sophical theories regarding value, the nature o ethics, emo-tions, epistemology, semantics, existentialism, and even poli-tics. So the book will serve the reader as an introduction tothese issues. But it is not an even-handed introduction; thesevarious theories are introduced in the service o explaining anddeending the view that I came to hold. Roughly, my view isthis. Constructing a meaningul lie requires both our heartsand our heads. o nd what is meaningul, we must nd whattruly matters. Finding what truly matters uses our hearts, be-cause evidence or what matters comes rom our emotional re-sponses. But it also uses our heads, because we must reectcritically on our initial responses to avoid the errors to whichemotions are prone.Te rst seven chapters o the book are mostly critical.I describe arguments, drawn rom contemporary value theory,that criticize common views about what is meaningul, worth- while, and valuable in lie. My own views about meaningul-ness begin in Chapter 8. Tere, and in the chapters which ol-
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Godless? No one is Godless. You may congratulate yourself on your disbelief, conceiting that somehow you have evolved because you can deny Him, but He is. Whether you choose to believe in Him or not, He is. Regardless of what you choose to call Him, He is. He is as surely as you are.

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Please read the attachments.

12 / 24 / 2009
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Assalamo alaikum, brother. Liked your comments. Please read the attachments.

12 / 24 / 2009
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