What does it all mean?
All 's not real anyway Nagel in here also touches on God as the ultimate reason of our lives The explanation why we are all here is because of Him . God placed us here . As such , all other reasoning stops . God becomes the scapegoat of things unexplainable . Nobody will dare to ask the role of God or the reason he all placed us in here the first place . God would be the elucidation , period . But again , not everybody believes in God . And what if we do indeed ask : Why did God place

us here ' There won 't be an answer . And even if there is one , it won 't be acceptable to those who don 't regard supreme beings . And for the record , religious ideas are something the Nagel fails to fully understand
Nagel states that the trick for life 's meaning is to just live for the moment . Accept life and its supposed perceived meaning . Deeper analysis may lead us off track . And with things considered , life may not only be meaningless , but absurd as well (Nagel 101 . We are all living and striving in a world we can 't be sure exists
Plato 's idealism and Christianity is comparable . Plato explains of the life we are to lead . Life is not devoid of meaning . The life that we should be leading is a life of knowledge , virtue , and ascetic self-discipline - if we are to achieve our goal (Young 19
It is regarded that Christianity is basically a version of Platonism Although there is no complete identity between Platonism and Christianity , there is the same immortal , immaterial soul which makes the two ideas mesh together . So as far as Plato goes , there is a supreme being which is the be-all and the end-all of the unexplained theories
Evidently , Nagel...
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