These essays make a single central claim: that human beings can still make sense of their lives and still have a humane morality, even if their worldview is utterly secular and even if they have lost the last vestige of belief in God. 'Even in a self-consciously Godless world life can be fully meaningful', Nielsen contends.

These essays make a single central claim: that human beings can still make sense of their lives and still have a humane morality, even if their worldview is utterly secular and even if they have lost the last vestige of belief in God. 'Even in a self-consciously Godless world life can be fully meaningful', Nielsen contends.