Conatus: REVISED EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

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seeking endeavours explored in earlier chapters. However, I’d say that there is still a certain amount of meaning and ethic lurking behind all types of philosophical and scientific truth-seeking, and we’ll be exploring this a little more in the chapters that follow. Religion, of course, being based on faith, is much more difficult to scrutinise — and in any case perhaps it should not be held to the same type of scrutiny as science and philosophy. Is it any less of a fiction than any of the other narratives? That’s difficult to say. All I can suggest again is, pick your story! Stories are forced on us anyway, so it is as well to try to make them good stories! In the next chapter I will be summarising all the different alternative stories we have looked at so far and then think on where this might lead us.

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