John C. Wright's Journal

Part Five: Formless & Void (Continued): Amoral and Anarchic

We continue our examination of the Formlessness and Void necessarily implied by the atheist worldview below. The previous entries are here:

• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three
• Part Four

We have previously established that a godless view of the universe, to be logically consistent with itself, must also be a nihilist hence irrational universe, an unreality where fiction and fact are indistinguishable, words are arbitrary, knowledge is impossible. It is hence a nonsense universe.

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Part Four: Formless & Void (Continued): Unreal, Unknowing, Nonsensical

We continue our examination of the Formlessness and Void necessarily implied by the atheist worldview below. The previous entries are here:

• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three

We have previously established that a godless view of the universe, to be logically consistent with itself, must also be a nihilist hence irrational universe. 

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Part Three: Formless Void: Nihilist and Irrational

This is the third of a six part series investigating the paradoxes confronting monotheistic and atheist models of the world. The first part is here; the second part here. 

The atheist worldview, by denying a Supreme Being, denies not only a rational creation, but denies any supernatural element or aspect to creation, including universals.

This means the atheist universe is a nihilist universe, void of metaphysical truth.
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Part Two: Foundations of the Cosmos

This is the second of a six part series investigating the paradoxes confronting monotheistic and atheist models of the world. The first part is here. 

For the monotheists, our view of the cosmos rests on nine foundations.

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The PROBLEM OF PAIN and the PROBLEM OF PIFFLE

Part One: Monotheism and Atheism

Here follows the first of a six-part series of columns exploring the metaphysical and philosophical implications of monotheism versus atheism, comparing the paradoxes each must address.

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