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Forms and Essence of Atheism in the Thought of Bernhard Welte
Keywords:
Welte, Atheism, God, World, PowerAbstract
The article analyzes the forms and essence of atheism based on the thought of Bernhard Welte. The analysis seeks, first, to elucidate, from the notions of "will to power" and "unworldliness", the conditions of possibility of negative, critical and positive atheism, and from those of impotence and unworldliness, that of the sufferer. It then determines each form of atheism as a peculiar correlation between a mode of giving oneself God as absence in the order of the entity and a mode of intending that absence and interpreting it. Finally, it establishes both the legitimacy, intensity and depth as well as the limits and epistemological status of each form of atheism.
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