TITLE:
An Atheist’s Eternity
AUTHORS:
Duane Altheide
KEYWORDS:
Religious Existentialism, Nietzsche, Eternal Return, Quantum Mechanics, Eternity
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.7 No.1,
January
24,
2017
ABSTRACT: If death is a deep sleep, then eternity is as one night—Plato. This philosophical letter offers atheism a solace for death based on recent support for the multiverse—a set of multiple universes. Contemporary physics aligns smoothly with the doctrine of the eternal return suggested by Nietzsche et al., and offers an alternative to the doom and gloom of nonreligious existentialists.