Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

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Richard L. Johnson
Nov 04, 2021
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Religion must be ethics, ethics alone is religion. - Feurbach 

One should be an egoist. Many 19th century German intellectuals thought egoism was the way to fill the void left by religion. You are not more wise than them. So, an egoist it is.

The void left by religion needs to be filled with something, rather than nihilism, one should embrace benign an e…

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