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The agnostic , like the scientist or the secular existentialist , 37 has recourse only to sensibly accessible data . On the basis of the evidence thus available , he must conclude that " there is no ultimate meaning to existence ...
The agnostic , like the scientist or the secular existentialist , 37 has recourse only to sensibly accessible data . On the basis of the evidence thus available , he must conclude that " there is no ultimate meaning to existence ...
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948 Hence , having decided that " there is no ultimate meaning to existence , " agnostics " call upon men to create with lucidity their own private meanings and purposes in the knowledge that no power in the cosmos will deliberately ...
948 Hence , having decided that " there is no ultimate meaning to existence , " agnostics " call upon men to create with lucidity their own private meanings and purposes in the knowledge that no power in the cosmos will deliberately ...
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Since Antigonos made no reference to a future world , his disciples had good ground for concluding that he did not believe in its existence . But that conclusion does not necessarily follow from what Antigonos taught .
Since Antigonos made no reference to a future world , his disciples had good ground for concluding that he did not believe in its existence . But that conclusion does not necessarily follow from what Antigonos taught .
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| Title | The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage Volume 4 of Moreshet series : studies in Jewish history, literature and thought Volume 4 of Moreshet series |
| Author | Simon Greenberg |
| Publisher | Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0873340027, 9780873340021 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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