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John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life

Philosophy Bites

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Are You Saying That Humanity Will Save Itself?

Hope is something which is a characteristically religious virtue, faith, hope and love. And its cultivation is to do with systematic patterns of spiritual discipline. This is the great western tradition of spirituality. We need more than just an unreasoned or jaunty optimism we need to cultivate in ourselves the moral and spiritual basis for being able to live in the face of absurdity and contingency and failure.

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