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The Luck of the Draw
Few ideas are as familiar in everyday life, and yet as philosophically difficult, as luck. We speak of lucky breaks, bad luck, fortunate accidents, unlucky circumstances, and being in the right place at the right time. Luck appears to contradict our desire to believe that life is governed by effort, reason, and justice. If success…
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Two responses to Nihilism
In the 19th and 20th centuries modernity came into its fullness, and with this maturation the religious worldview began to fall away leaving us with a crisis of meaning that we’ve come to call Nihilism. The emergence of Nihilism prompted philosophers to ponder anew that clichéd philosophical question – what is the meaning of life?…
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