Alleviation of the need to define an athiest's definition of spiritualism.
Man pursues purposes, some brief and some long range. "Given that we do have purposes, there is an inherent tendency to want to know what it all adds up to. What is the meaning of life?"
The second source of spirituality is based on the standards we employ in order to pursue purposes. "As soon as we embrace standards, we are led to a very broad question: What would it be like to satisfy those standards perfectly? ... We are led to concretize a vision of what it would mean if all our standards could be embodied at once."
((taken from the 1999 TOC conference))
Man pursues purposes, some brief and some long range. "Given that we do have purposes, there is an inherent tendency to want to know what it all adds up to. What is the meaning of life?"
The second source of spirituality is based on the standards we employ in order to pursue purposes. "As soon as we embrace standards, we are led to a very broad question: What would it be like to satisfy those standards perfectly? ... We are led to concretize a vision of what it would mean if all our standards could be embodied at once."
((taken from the 1999 TOC conference))