Quote of the Week: Kelley Ross on the absurdity of life
While traditional Christian theologians, like St. Thomas Aquinas,
saw the world as providing evidence of God's existence, and also
thought that rational arguments a priori could establish the existence
of God, Kierkegaard does not think that this is the case. But
Kierkegaard's conclusion about this could just as easily be derived from
Sartre's premises. After all, if the world is absurd, and everything we
do is absurd anyway, why not do the most absurd thing imaginable? And
what could be more absurd than to believe in God? So why not? The
atheists don't have any reason to believe in anything else, or really
even to disbelieve in that, so we may as well go for it!
- Kelley L. Ross, in the "Existentialism" article at The Proceedings of the Friesian School
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