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Albert Camus

On Living Without Transcendence: A Homage to Camus

Van Harvey says it is possible to live meaningfully without a higher purpose.

“Or again we could say that the man is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks.

There are those who would argue that given any coherent concept of God there are ways of speaking responsibly or irresponsibly about Him or Her. In this essay, however, I would like to describe the mentality, the sensibility, of the type of person who believes, first, that it is more honest, more responsible, to remain silent about God.

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