Prayer of the craftsman
12th-century monastic prayer: Teach me, Lord, to make good use of the time You give me for work… Teach me to combine haste and slowness….
Antigone, defiant and intimate (7/7. Love)
Part 7 and final part: Love. Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied. Creon, on the other hand, desires to...
Essay on Exoticism
Only those with a strong sense of individuality can perceive the difference. According to the law that every thinking subject presupposes an object, we must posit that...
Man and Animals According to Aristotle
From this comes the obvious conclusion that the State is a fact of nature, that man is naturally a social being, and that he who remains savage...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (5/7. Authority)
Part 5: Authority In ancient Greece, men knew and recognized themselves in the eyes of their family, their relatives, their peers...
Identify
Identity is divided, on the one hand, into a foundation that is within us, without which we can derive any particular merit, our nature, and on the other hand, the education (culture) that we...
The division according to Creon
Creon divides his interlocutors into two camps: those who are with him and those who are against him. He no longer negotiates and threatens those who oppose him. Force...
The enantiodromos, the fork of life
Creon is transformed into a tyrant. He becomes what he imagines he should be. This is the enantiodromos, this moment and place for the Greeks, which reveals his true nature...
Taking it upon oneself, a transfiguration
It is difficult to understand in our time, where individualism reigns, that the act of taking responsibility for what one does not think of oneself, what one thinks of the other...
To Be and To Have
What belongs to us matters less than who we are, and we are wrong to believe, under the wing of envy, that what belongs to us can define who we are...
Desire for recognition
The loss of all recognition in modern times, coupled with rampant individualism, leads everyone to crave any form of recognition. Everyone...
What does it mean to be out of touch with reality?
The most illuminating example concerning human nature is found in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ speak together and Peter insists...
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...
Hannah Arendt on the functionalism of the social sciences
I do not believe that atheism is a substitute for, or can fulfill the same function as, a religion, any more than I believe that violence can become a...