modern world
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Identify
Identity is divided on the one hand into a base that is within us without us being able to derive any particular merit from it, our nature and the education (culture) that we have received, and a constitutive movement of life that discovers elements that are not listed by our nature or our education, but which must 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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Desire for recognition
The loss of all recognition in the modern era, combined with frenzied individualism, pushes everyone to crave any form of recognition. Everyone dreams of a moment of glory, the media form being the most sought after, whether it comes through television or social networks, because it appears as a form of ultimate recognition; the form 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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Blanc de Saint Bonnet on contemporary France
In 1851, Blanc de Saint Bonnet said: When men lose sight of moral necessities, God brings forth the light of necessities of another order. If faith is no longer received by the ear, it will be taught to us by hunger. Christianity will constitute modern society or will see it shattered. Continue reading
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Hannah Arendt on social science functionalism
I don't believe that atheism is a substitute for or can fulfill the same function as religion, any more than I believe that violence can become a substitute for authority. But if we follow the exhortations of conservatives, who, at this moment, have a pretty good chance of being heard, I am all for Continue reading
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Show “But times always come back…” – 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991)
Show "But times always come back..." — 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991) by Emmanuel Di Rossetti on Vimeo. On August 31, 1991, the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment celebrated its 150th anniversary, the Battle of El Moungar, and its return from Operation Daguet, the first Gulf War, during an exceptional cinéscénie. 30,000 spectators from Nîmes attended Continue reading
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Pius X at the beatification of Joan of Arc
On December 13, 1908, at the beatification of Joan of Arc, Pius X spoke these words which remain in the memory: "you will tell the French to make their treasure of the testaments of Saint-Rémy, of Charlemagne and of Saint-Louis which are summed up in these words so often repeated by the heroine of Orléans: long live Christ who Continue reading
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Paul Bourget on France since 1789
Paul Bourget wrote: "We must choose; either the people of 1789 were right and the whole ancient edifice must fall; or they were wrong and it is their work that must be destroyed to restore France." 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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Bismarck against France and Catholicism
Bismarck wrote to Count Arnim on November 11, 1871: We must desire the maintenance of the republic in France for one last reason which is major. Monarchical France was and always will be Catholic. Its policy gave it great influence in Europe, in the East and even in the Far East. A means of counteracting its Continue reading