Are you behind on your end-of-year gifts? What if you opted for philosophy books? Here is a small list of classics, exciting and not too technical, I promise! What to give your aunt, who already has everything? What about your nephew, who doesn’t seem to care much anymore? Christmas gifts can be real headaches. A … Read more
The town hall officially canceled on Wednesday the reservation of the municipal hall Garcin rented by the “Night of Philosophy” festival after the alert of the Interministerial Mission for Vigilance and the Fight against Sectarian Abuses on the participation of New Acropolis. The case has taken on a scale that Adeline, coordinator of the organization … Read more
85 Repressed from philosophy and culture, oil is our great unthought… except when, in times of strike or shortage, it runs out. In this forum, the philosopher Pascal Chabotauthor of The Age of Transitions (PUF, 2015), invites us to see in the development of alternative energies the way to reconnect with the cycle of nature … Read more
85 The first difficulty we encounter if one wants to rule on the possible existence of an Egyptian philosophy, consists in determining of which Egypt it is question. Inasmuch as what we call the civilization of ancient Egypt spans more than three millennia, to speak ofa Egyptian thought as if it were unified seems imprudent … Read more
By Dr MA BOUHADIBA* Lhen we look for a definition of philosophy we discover that it is the love of wisdom. It is, in fact, the contraction of two Greek words: love, philosophy and wisdom, sophie. If one looks for a clearer definition, one finds many definitions that make it difficult to grasp the true … Read more
Book. For at least a decade, shelves devoted to personal development have been flourishing in bookstores. There is nothing particularly original about this fashion, however, since it is in fact inspired by an ancient and much deeper tradition, that of spiritual exercises. In a rich anthology, the philosopher and professor at Essec Business School Xavier … Read more
To imagine oneself as a goat, to take oneself for Napoleon or for Wonder Woman, to hide behind a mask, a vector of power… The contemporary imagination harbors multiple role-playing games aimed at evading identity assignments. Becoming other: the idea of escaping oneself (one’s face, one’s flesh, one’s language) has crossed us probably since childhood. … Read more