The Belief of an Unwilling to believe

Against all dogmatic ideologies- What can a philosophical life orientation look like in our time?- Why should we favour it over a religious life orientation?The future belongs to philosophy not to religions or secular ideologies. With this fundamental statement Michael Murauer places himself in the tradition of Enlightenment thinking. The philosopher and physician who sees no acceptable alternative to a rational debate on philosophical and especially moral issues is aware that at the end of such a debate there are no absolute truths but well-founded value judgements as presented here in a wide range of topics. The Belief of an Unwilling to believe constantly balances on the edge between systematic philosophical treatise and personal confession measuring itself against the current state of thought. This book attempts to summarise the philosophical criticism of ideologies taking into account the world view developed by modern science while at the same time offering orientation and help for life on the basis of philosophical thought adequate to modernity.