Jean Paul Sartre: "Existentialism is nothing else but an attempt to draw the full conclusions from a consistently atheistic position." http://bit.ly/6HbK0V Jean Paul Sartre: "Existentialism is not atheist in the sense that it would exhaust itself in demonstrations of the non-existence of God. It declares, rather, that even if God existed that would make no difference from its point of view. Not that we believe God does exist, but we think that the real problem is not that of His existence; what …

We are a group of people who enjoy talking about ideas, and who are philosophically inclined or would like to find out more about philosophy. We meet every week, normally on a Tuesday or Wednesday.  Our venues are pubs and cafés in various different parts of Cambridge.  Once a month, one of our members will prepare a short talk for the evening and discussions will start to spin off from that.  Sometimes we have organised debates; otherwise, we simply meet up for a sociable chat.  Everyone is wel …

Meet other fans of author Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism - a philosophy of Reason Purpose and Self-esteem that holds human life on this earth as the standard of all values and your life as an end in itself. Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to the United States in the Twenties. She published "The Fountainhead "in 1943, and "Atlas Shrugged" in 1957; both books have been in print continuously, and are currently available as Penguin Modern Classics. Both books deal with the …