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La filosofía contemporánea parece que ha renunciado pensar racionalmente los grandes temas humanos, incluidos los religiosos, no sólo por desconfiar de la capacidad de solucionarlos, sino por una cuestión más medular: la negación de la racionalidad como principio radical de la realidad. Se analiza este proceso, que conduce a un nihilismo que decepciona incluso a sus mismos autores. Intentamos poner de manifiesto la perenne validez de la cuestión del sentido de la vida examinando lo que supone no plantearla. La identificación de esos supuestos delinea las respuestas posibles a esa pregunta y reclama la recuperación de un saber filosófico sustancial que comience a trazar respuestas.
During a process that lasted almost five centuries, philosophers gradually renounced thinking about the great questions that still concern humanity, including the religious ones. The problem is not just a lack of trust in the human ability to solve them but in a kind of conviction that there is no rationality at the base of reality. We deal both with the historical process that led to nihilism and the fact that nihilism was taken as a starting point never proven as valid. We show the validity of the enquiry into the meaning of human existence, some of the philosophical implications in the very fact that we can’t help but posing the question, and the need for philosophy to rediscover herself as a useful discipline for finding significant answers.