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You say: "What, if anything, do we have to gain from denying that these modern attempts to create meaning are functionally religious?"
Indeed, denying that modern (and other not-at-all modern) philosophical attempts to give life meaning share the same function than religion serves no purpose.
But the problem here is a lack of clarity: where religion gives life meaning via faith and belief, philosophy at least attempts to answer this existential question by reasoning and avoiding illusions and false statements. This is a rather useful distinction, isn't it?
The Meaning of Life
A friend of mine has a fridge magnet that reads “the meaning of life is to give life meaning.” It is a neat summation of twentieth century philosophy, the centrepiece of which was existentialism; the idea that humanity was itself responsible for finding meaning. Existentialism was an unprecede...
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