Erik, hi old friend Sartre depended alot on the Stoics from my readin.. I find that extraverts and intraverts use philosophy through different lenses and thus personally and publicly expressions. The most influential, more recent philosopher Wittgenstein concluded common definitions are challenges and he offered a solution, seek common language. Words. Simplicity. In my life (found as a child vaguely) that it's inefficient not to believe in God even if you're an atheist or agnostic because the agency of faith gives an inner outside reference to work out the life one faces. The concept takes one out of the reptilian minds which we are hard wired to. Einstein understood this in a quest for unity in the cosmos when he said famously, "God doesn't play dice." The humdrum inconsistencies which bug us are better worked through somehow. Next
Hey Michael, indeed I can sense the influence of the stoics in some of his ideas :) And yes humanity needs to work with some idea of the divine and the idea of faith and god is firmly rooted in human experience, to ignore the spiritual factor would mean to miss an aspect of human experience
