The most enlightening example concerning human nature is in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ speak together and that Pierre insists with his master so that he believes his completely sincere devotion. Thus, Jesus announces to him that the rooster will not have sung that he will have denied it three times. The first place where every man speaks is this one: his weakness. Taking into account everyone's limits, not always to resolve it, but also to overcome them, forces to reason from what you are and not from what you think you are. Any man who does not know his weaknesses, who forgets them, who does not take them into account is above ground as we used to say today. Affairs meaning that you are nourished by a pasture that is not ours, that you deny your pasture to find any other pasture than your best, because other. Affairs also means that the words received could be obtained everywhere else in the world without this posing a problem, these words being without roots, translatable in all language and exportable like a "framework" in computer science. The objective is characterized by the desire to reach such a level of abstraction and uprooting that the question will no longer even make sense.
Category: Antigone
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 and not against . At the reflux of the army of Argos, Antigone emerges from the shadows where she could have resided all her life, not to solve the riddle of the sphinx like her father, not to solve the riddle of the stages of the life, but to fill the space between each of them. Oedipus tore off his skin, his nails, his knuckles. Dusk describes an uncertain state in the morning as well as in the evening. Antigone rises with the day, with the dawn, when freedom takes life, and therefore body.
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
What stories about identity! The word does not appear neither in the Greek epic nor in the tragedy. The identity at the time of Antigone is leaning on the line and belonging to a city. Identity was soaked from rooting. The family and the city brought together under a virtual standard the entirety of what the other should know about oneself during a first meeting. During Antiquity, no one proclaimed their identity or promulgated it, and no one decided on its identity. It was not a question of putting a costume. Men were in their identity. The identity was akin to a charge, we had to be worthy of it. She ruled being and becoming. Modern era has made an issue, because it has transformed the identity to have, a sort of achievement which can be disputed or departing. In its modern fantasy to believe that you can choose everything all the time, the modern era replaced with a relentless method being by having it. Yet this logic, this ideology has its limits: certain things cannot be acquired, among them: otherness. Living your identity, being what you are, living in your name , allowing intimacy and therefore the knowledge and deepening of your being, these are the sine qua non conditions of one meeting with the other. The first difference between Creon and Antigone is at this specific location, the terrain on which the fight is built, Antigone preserves anchored in it this gift of the ancients, of the gods, this rooting which defines the authority to which it is leaning for Take up to this man, his parent, the king, who marries the will to power and finds himself blinded by her until he only heard her own voice, his echo. Read the rest of "Antigone, rebellious and intimate (6/7. Vocation)"
Antigone, rebellious and intimate (3/7. Destiny)
3rd part: destiny
The man descends from the tree. Man, like the tree, is defined as well by his roots or his fruits. Man, like the tree, depends on external and interior elements to reach maturity. Man looks like this trunk sculpted by the tests based on his roots and bearing more or less beautiful, more or less good fruit ... The similarities between the plant world and man are endless. Water that nourishes the roots with the sun sprinkling the fruits, with oxygen exuded by the leaves, all this life that rushes and circulates in an irremingly human condition. The tree is a family metaphor. From the fruits to fruits and leaves, a metaphor for the history of man and the family is developing. What evil fairies presided over the birth of the labdacid family from which Antigone descends? Any beautiful consciousness these days would see a calamity and a pathological explanation of antigone decisions. How does this little antigone become this heroic fruit by being born on a trunk so full of stigma and bruising? Destiny blows and guides this family in an uninterrupted and obtuse way and, suddenly, Antigone frees itself from this shackles, releases all her family from this shackles, she defeated the camisole, and completes to dismiss fate. What a prodigy! By far, hung on their branch, two leaves always seem identical, it is enough to approach to see how differ. Read the rest of "Antigone, rebellious and intimate (3/7. Fate)"
Antigone, rebellious and intimate (2/7. The funeral)
Part 2: The funeral
“ My dear Ismene. I come this morning to tell you that I took care of everything. I took the same undertakers for our two brothers. I couldn't choose and since our brothers didn't leave any last wishes, I took matters into my own hands to get it sorted out as soon as possible. I still ordered embalming so that they are presentable. If you want to go see them, they'll be ready around 3 p.m. You do not have to. Well, if you can take ten minutes, that might be fine. It may be better to keep an image of them happy, children for example. I took the same urn model for both. A priest will come to the funeral home and give a short speech before the cremation. I ordered him to come to the funeral home. You see, I took care of everything. Eteocles will be buried in the cemetery which is located about thirty minutes from Thebes by taking the national. For Polynice, it is more complicated with the law of our uncle, Creon. I decided to scatter his ashes on the battlefield as the king does not want him buried. Makes sense, right? Tell me what you think, I'm not stopped on this point. This portrait of Antigone living in the 21st century delivering the remains of her brothers to the funeral director summarizes the rite of funerals today. The family has since the Industrial Revolution been rendered unproductive. Funerals are no longer part of the family tradition. The modern world is reassured by using the formula make sense , as the translation of the Anglo-Saxon expression is heard today, and as it is so comforting to repeat it to oneself without it really having any… sense, because what what are these mini-senses found on the ground almost by chance, what are these skin-deep that invite themselves in almost without our being there for nothing, if not the residues of a past sense, a common sense, a good sense sculpted by the centuries? Through the destruction of the family, transmission between generations is lacking, the meaning of our actions is lost, so we have to invent meaning, create meaning, we have to give ourselves the illusion of still living, of not not have totally given up. Deceit is backed up by ignorance, and on this point too, trickery is not new. The meaning given by death within the family, this meaning almost completely forgotten nowadays, is recalled by Antigone in Sophocles' play where she stands as a guardian of the values that liberate, because they protect man from death. 'animal. Antigone reaffirms what man can and cannot; it takes hold of a force destined to protect us from our will to power and to teach us the time of responsibility; a time nowadays entrusted to specialists replacing the family, the people who compose it and the tenuous links woven between them over time.
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (1/7. The family)
1st part: the family
From the first reading of Antigone, an ambiguity settles in the mind of the reader. Does Antigone embody action or reaction? What moves Antigone? The reaction never exists by itself whereas the action needs no one, it legitimizes itself in the act. Action always inaugurates something. Contrary to what is often said or believed, Antigone does not wait for Creon to be Antigone. Like Electra for revenge, Nausicaa for hospitality, Penelope for fidelity, Antigone embodies duty. It is action, because it serves: it is accomplished in duty. It is accomplished in servitude (are we pretending to forget that servitude means “to be a slave”?). Contrary to what is often said or believed, Antigone is never an individual. She never stands alone. If the law of Creon pushes it to action, and if this one can seem a reaction, it is only on the surface, by simple chronology.
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