What happens when a conception of the meaning of life based on a
divine revelation no longer makes sense? Does the quest for
transcendence end in the pursuit of material success and
self-absorption?
Luc Ferry argues that modernity and the emergence of secular
humanism in Europe since the eighteenth century have not killed the
search for meaning and the sacred, or even the idea of God, but
rather have transformed both through a dual process: the
humanization of the divine and the divinization of the human. Ferry
sees evidence for the first of these in the Catholic Church's
attempts to counter the growing rejection of dogmatism and to
translate the religious tradition into contemporary language. The
second he traces to the birth of modern love and humanitarianism,
both of which demand a concern for others and even self-sacrifice
in defense of values that transcend life itself. Ferry concludes
with a powerful statement in favor of what he calls "transcendental
humanism"-a concept that for the first time in human history gives
us access to a genuine spirituality rooted in human beings instead
of the divine.
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