I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
From Michel Onfray
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.
I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.
It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed citizen.
Religion is an irrational construct.
We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews invented it to endure the coherence, cohesion and existence of their small, threatened people.
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
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