LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Eugène Praz | A few weeks ago, many of us celebrated Easter. We often wonder where it comes from. But where is it going, and what does it mean in our time? Here's a look at the intersection of Christianity and Judaism.
We recently celebrated 50 years of women's suffrage in Switzerland, an opportunity for us to take another look at the place of women in today's world. While women occupy an increasingly important place in society, there are data that seem to indicate a stagnation in the consideration and recognition of what they actually want and should be. This ambivalence in the advancement of the female cause can become the anchor for a new reflection on the meaning of the female body. It is this conversion of gaze and point of view that we wish to present here.
With the progress of science, particularly neuroscience, the possibility of free will is increasingly called into question. Every day, we discover new determinisms, i.e. conditionings to act in a certain way in a given context. Man's capacity for self-determination, which we hold so dear, may appear to be nothing more than an illusion. But before modern science got to grips with it, the question of free will already had a long history. Let's go back to the origins of a founding idea in the history of the West.
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Jonas Follonier et Lauriane Pipoz | La philosophie peut-elle nous éclairer dans la gestion du Covid-19? Oui, notamment grâce à la théorie de la justice de John Rawls. Ce philosophe anglais propose une expérience de pensée ayant pour but de trouver les principes d’une société juste. Appliquée à la gestion du virus, elle permet de se demander si les décisions du Conseil fédéral respectent la norme de l’impartialité, qui elle seule permet de protéger les intérêts de tous – y compris leurs libertés.
Journalist and writer, with a specialization in mathematical logic, deputy director of the Association Valaisanne des Entrepreneurs (AVE), Chiara Meichtry-Gonet is at the crossroads of several paths... or rails, one might say. In autumn 2020, she published her second novel Mathilde-sous-Gare with Bernard Campiche. It was an opportunity for me to meet her and discuss her singular profile and her vivid, disturbing world, during a trip by train and elsewhere.
As we await new measures to alleviate the difficulties associated with the current health situation, a sense of consternation is growing. We wonder how long this situation will last, and above all, how long we'll be able to bear the social distances, the need to wear a mask, the distance from our loved ones, or even the renunciation of certain usual activities. From this perspective, a paradox grips us - and me first: to what extent can we preserve the health of the body while renouncing our own body? Behind this paradox lies the question: what is a human life?
LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Eugène Praz | In his essay Action et réaction. Vie et aventures d'un couple (1999), originally composed but of firm intellectual rigor, Swiss literary critic Jean Starobinski revisited the concepts of action and reaction, and showed how they have served in the history of ideas, whether scientific, medical, psychological, literary, philosophical or political. The final chapter was devoted to their political aspect. It's worth coming back to it today, because in addition to serving as an illustration for Alain Badiou's Abrégé de métapolitique, published a year before Starobinski's essay, it demonstrates the easy handling, especially in politics, of the terms action, or progress, and reaction, and that nothing is more misleading than words of such generality. What's more, they encourage a tendency to split any political subject in two, always with a few nuances.
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Antoine Bernhard | Lors du massacre de «Charlie Hebdo» et du récent attentat de Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, un thème a envahi la scène politique et médiatique, surtout française: le «droit au blasphème». Ses défenseurs l’invoquent au nom de la laïcité et de la liberté d’expression, les islamistes en font un motif de plus pour détester la France et l’Occident. Certes, la formule est efficace. Mais qu’en est-il de sa pertinence?
We all agree. We're all moving in the same direction. United against the coronavirus. Solidarity of a humanity trembling in the face of a so-called unprecedented epidemic. We are at war with the coronavirus. With masks and bottles of hydro-alcoholic gel, and thanks to the heroism of our doctors, we will win. Amen to that! The world will never be the same again. 1TP5Neveragain! Hurrah! Humanity is rising up in an unprecedented surge of awareness. Let's protect ourselves, let's protect our loved ones! Let's all join hands - err... no, sorry! Let's keep a distance of one meter and banish all physical contact... - to erect a barrier against the great Satan who is advancing to kill us.
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