0 a way of avoiding an unpleasant or boring life, especially by thinking, reading, etc. about more exciting but impossible activities: --
1 the activity of avoiding reality by imagining exciting but impossible activities --
Escapism is not seriously challenged by any of the objections to the five solutions to the problem of religious luck.
Unfortunately, escapism fails to avoid the problem of religious luck.
One might argue that, despite the foregoing argument, escapism avoids the problem of religious luck.
I will leave that task to others, however, and turn to the question of how escapism fares with respect to the problem of religious luck.
The pastoral emerges as a nexus of impulses, including epicurean licence, nostalgic escapism, sentimental heroism and chivalric ritual.
Unlike the second solution, escapism does not restrict the basis of religious evaluation to what is under a person's control.
The body ill at ease here goes together with escapism.
Art, in this view, should exist only as a form of escapism.
