u/ephemeral_elk

To what extent are secular life-affirming philosophies (i.e., philosophies that maintain that life is worth living) just vestigial remnants of religious tendencies that reify the human being as being somehow ontologically exceptional? Moreover, is this irrational sanctification of life an inevitable consequence of our being a species that's so excruciatingly aware of the absurdity of existence that we need to weave myths to console ourselves?