Open AccessSpiritual Poverty
Author(s) -
Jacqueline Hajjar
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.772
Subject(s) - poverty , philosophy , sociology , environmental ethics , psychology , political science , law
With Nietzsche's affirmation that "God is dead", a new era was ushered in. From now on, any idea expressing a need for God would be considered infantile and backward. As time passed, more and more generations rejected any interaction with a Necessary Being, as Hayy the Son of Yaqzan' called him. Furthermore, the increasing problems surrounding man's survival, have created a deep weariness in the individual.