 | Franklin Le Van Baumer - History - 1978 - 824 pages
...existentialist, on the contrary, thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears...must be honest, that we must not lie; because the fact is we are on a plane where there are only men. Dostoievsky said, “If God didn't exist, everything... | |
 | Jean-Paul Sartre - Philosophy - 1985 - 98 pages
...existentialist, on the contrary, thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears...must be honest, that we must not lie; because the fact is we are on a plane where there are only men. Dostoievsky said, “If God didn't exist, everything... | |
 | David W. Augsburger - Religion - 1986 - 412 pages
...The existentialist . . . thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears along with him . . . everything is possible if God does not exist, and as a result man is forlorn, because neither... | |
 | John F. Haught - Religion - 1990 - 286 pages
...“If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.” If God does not exist - . - all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears...must be honest, that we must not lie; because the fact is we are on a plane where there are only men. - if God does not exist, we find no values or commands... | |
 | Dean Turner - Philosophy - 1991 - 328 pages
...us: The existentialist thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears...exists, that we must be honest, that we must not lie. Indeed, everything is permissible if God does not exist, and as a result man is forlorn, because neither... | |
 | Lawrence Vogel - Philosophy - 1994 - 152 pages
...Existentialist, on the contrary, thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears...must be honest, that we must not lie; because the fact is we are on a plane where there are only men. Dostoievski said, "If God didn't exist, everything... | |
 | Hunter Brown, Leonard A. Kennedy - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 660 pages
...existentialist, on the contrary, thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears...must be honest, that we must not lie; because the fact is we are on a plane where there are only men. Dostoyevsky said, “If God didn't exist, everything... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 566 pages
...that the existentialist thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears...no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. So, from the point of view of the absence of absolute values (and, as we have seen, from that of a... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon, Derk Pereboom - Philosophy - 2001 - 404 pages
...existentialist, on the contrary, thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears...must be honest, that we must not lie; because the fact is we are on a plane where there are only men. Dostoyevsky said, “If God didn't exist, everything... | |
 | Hans-Georg Ziebertz - Religion - 2001 - 464 pages
...existentialist, on the contrary, thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears...infinite and perfect consciousness to think it.... If existence really precedes essence, there is no explaining things away by referring to a fixed and... | |
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of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears along with Him; there can no longer be an a priori Good, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to thInk it. Nowhere is it written that the Good exists, that we must be honest, that we must... 
