Life and the Sacred
Vigna, Carmelo / Alvira, Rafael
One of the concepts which deserve particular attention by philosophers of the 21th century is that of life and, more specifically, that of human life. Religion has played the role of providing an answer to the limits with which life confronts itself, namely sickness and death. Religion offered traditionally the knowledge of salvation and provided the ultimate sense of life. Yet, in recent times, religion has been increasingly substituted by ot...