Antigone
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Be yourself
Being oneself never fades into habit. Identity is a search and an affirmation, a permanent enantiodromos, like a state of siege that fears no enemy. Who am I? Where am I going? Constantly accepting to question oneself and explore the mystery of life, but shielded by what one knows. Continue reading
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The Revolutionary and Forgiveness
The revolutionary has no appetite for forgiveness, for he hates the gift that seems suspect to him and the other with whom he could have sealed the future. For the revolutionary, driven by envy, the only form of forgiveness that is proper to him involves the humiliation or death of his opponent in order to celebrate his victory. Continue reading
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The will alone or the will alone
Antigone knows that man must not believe in his will alone. Here too, it is a question of power swelling with pride. Will alone becomes perverted, corrupted, withered, and prideful. Will alone, or the will alone that often accompanies it, takes over space as soon as a higher power, authority, is forgotten. All Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (7/7. Love)
7th and final part: Love Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied; Creon, on the other hand, wants to assert himself as king and demonstrate his power. Antigone favors family ties that embody love and reveal a being. Creon establishes his power by signing a bill that must Continue reading
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Man and animals according to Aristotle
From this we can draw the obvious conclusion that the State is a fact of nature, that man is naturally a sociable being, and that he who remains savage by organization, and not by chance, is certainly either a degraded being or a being superior to the human species. It is to him that this reproach could be addressed. Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (5/7. Authority)
Part 5: Authority In ancient Greece, men knew and recognized themselves in the eyes of their family, their loved ones, and their community. Women reserved for themselves the mirror that was part of beauty, femininity, and seduction. The reflection is everywhere. "There is no place that does not Continue reading
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Splitting according to Creon
Creon divides his interlocutors into two groups: those who are with him and those who are against him. He no longer negotiates and threatens those who oppose him. Force controls him, when force should only ever be used to protect, and this is always the case with those who give themselves body and soul to Continue reading
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The enantiodromos, the fork of life
Creon transforms into a tyrant. He becomes what he imagines he should be. It is the enantiodromos, this moment and this place among the Greeks, which reveals the true nature of a man when, at the crossroads, he must confront the choice of the road to follow. The enantiodromos is the fork where the one who becomes… Continue reading
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Take on yourself, a transfiguration
It is difficult to understand in our time where individualism reigns that the action of taking on the fault that one does not think of oneself, that one thinks of the other, but which necessarily is also one's own, necessarily, because I have already committed this kind of fault by action or by omission, this fault is not unknown to me, the action of taking on the Continue reading
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To be and to Have
What belongs to us matters less than what we are, and we are wrong to believe, under the wing of envy, that what belongs to us can define what we are. Continue reading
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What is it to be above ground?
The most illuminating example of human nature is found in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ are talking together and Peter insists that his master believe his devotion is completely sincere. Thus, Jesus tells him that before the rooster crows, he will have denied him three times. The first place Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (4/7. Freedom)
Antigone did not come to life at dusk. Antigone is born with dawn. It is at daybreak that Antigone becomes anti, which means facing, not against. As the Argive army ebbs, Antigone emerges from the shadows where she might have resided all her life, not to solve the riddle of the Sphinx, as her Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
What a fuss about identity! The word appears neither in Greek epic nor in tragedy. Identity in Antigone's time was based on lineage and belonging to a city. Identity was imbued with roots. Family and city gathered under a virtual banner everything that others needed to know about themselves. Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (3/7. Destiny)
Part 3: Destiny Man descends from the tree. Man, like the tree, is defined by his roots as well as by his fruits. Man, like the tree, depends on external and internal elements to reach maturity. Man resembles this trunk sculpted by trials leaning on its roots and bearing fruits more or less Continue reading
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