Prof Fiona Ellis on 'Meaning, Desire and God'

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Meaning, Desire and God
Prof Fiona Ellis
University of Roehampton
Abstract: I offer an approach to the problem of life's meaning which poses a radical challenge to some of the familiar terms of this debate. First, I defend an expansive form of naturalism which involves a rejection of the common assumption that naturalism and theism are logically incompatible and offers a framework from which to rethink some of the central concepts operative in discussions of life's meaning. Second, I defend a 'desire solution' to the problem of life's meaning. My initial inspiration is Richard Taylor's version of such a position as articulated in his book Good and Evil. I argue that this solution is best articulated from within an expansive naturalist framework, raise some doubts about Taylor's metaphysics, and make a connection with the Nietzschean problem of nihilism.

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