Each month, Le Regard Libre presents a philosopher whose thinking is different from, or even the opposite of, that of...
For a long time, humans judged animals according to their own way of thinking, generally to assert their supremacy over them. It wasn't until the twentieth century that animal behavior was systematically studied and a balanced judgment could be formulated. Today, science provides us with a more nuanced vision. And most of our major certainties - that laughter is a human trait, that animals have neither culture nor morals, that the tool makes the man, etc. - are now outdated. - are now outdated. Here we present some of the most surprising discoveries, such as animals« ability to use symbols, or their sense of empathy and cooperation. Scientific facts that bring them closer to us and help us to understand ourselves better.
Le Regard Libre N° 84 – Antoine Bernhard Dossier «L’homme et l’animal» C’est une revendication qui fait florès aujourd’hui: il faudrait...
ANALYSIS, Olivier Meuwly | «It could be argued that the capacity of capitalist regimes to reform is partly due to Marx himself», asks Raymond Aron in his famous lecture on Marxism by Marx, delivered at the Sorbonne in the early 1960s, then at the Collège de France a decade later, and published in 2002 by Jean-Claude Casanova (Editions de Fallois). Is Aron indulging in his customary irony? Or are we to wonder whether, behind the provocative aphorism, lies not only the profound admiration that the great French liberal has always shown for the founding father of «scientific socialism», but also a warning to those who profess to analyze... or practice this same capitalism?
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Danilo Heyer | On entend souvent ce refrain: «il ne faut être ni pessimiste, ni optimiste, mais réaliste!». Soit, gardons-nous d’édulcorer l’avenir. Bien insuffisante se révèle néanmoins cette position pour qui désire savoir si le monde est essentiellement bon ou mauvais; si la vie vaut la peine d’être vécue; si l’existence peut se justifier. Pour ce faire, il y aurait à porter un jugement métaphysique dont ce réalisme est bien incapable. On connaît surtout Arthur Schopenhauer, ce philosophe allemand du XIXe siècle, pour son pessimisme radical. Aurait-il toutefois offert au monde rien qu’une philosophie d’aigri, ainsi qu’on le prétend parfois? Une lecture attentive révèle un étonnant mélange de pessimisme et d’optimisme au cœur d’une philosophie pratique qui s’avère lucide et d’un grand secours pour tout un chacun. En fin de compte, le bonheur serait-il atteignable?
LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Enzo Santacroce | Nietzsche, the multi-faceted philosopher, was as much reclaimed and hijacked by Nazi ideology as by the anarchist forces driving the students of May '68. How can we explain the fact that the thinking of this brilliant mind has been co-opted by both brown and red? The German philosopher's fragmented and deliberately shocking statements certainly contributed to his misunderstanding. However, his lucid critique of a Western society now living without transcendence is highly topical, in that the only acceptable value today is that of health, understood as the annihilation of suffering. Aware of this decline early on, Nietzsche developed a tonic response based on the will expressed by the body, finally rehabilitated in its desiring dimension.
The University of Toronto psychology professor, the clinician, the youtuber with over four million subscribers, the speaker who attracted no less than half a million listeners to 160 venues in one year, and the author of the bestseller 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, recently published 12 New Rules for Life: Beyond Order. I'm talking about Jordan Peterson. What does this figure from the intellectual dark web bring to this sequel? And what can we say about his thinking, given that the overwhelming majority of the mainstream media misread his previous work as much as they criticized it with sophisms of all kinds?
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Antoine Vuille | Each month, a guest editor examines a cliché about a philosopher. For once, this article focuses on a prejudice about philosophy itself. To understand what this discipline is and what it's for, we need to break down two clichés about it: the first concerns its object, the second its method.
Le Regard Libre N° 77 - Enzo Santacroce «Prejudice against philosophers» series, episode #2 If ever there was a philosopher...
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