Nihilism and the Death of God

Professor Ken Gemes - Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London

Can a secular society provide ultimate values that are capable of providing structure, and giving meaning, to our lives? With no external authority must we as individuals provide the grounding for or our own personal ultimate values or can we simply live free of all such values? And, in case we live without such values how can we be truly capable of affirming life? This lecture was given at the University of London International Programmes Open Evening in September 2012.