List of Articles
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Metaphysics and metapolitics
The Words and Concepts of Liberalism
In her latest book, Caëla Gillespie offers a lexicon of the key words and concepts of liberalism, tracing them in the order of their historical emergence. The result is a unique lens through which to view the political and economic developments shaping today’s Western societies. She even forged the neologism “pan-liberalism”, which has become necessary. What follows is her lexicon. — Bruno Bérard.
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Metaphysics and Philosophy
Philosophy… why live with it?
A hundred pages to enter into a life of philosophy, a journey through life. The adventure that every child discovers by naming things, the adventure that every adult pursues to a greater or lesser extent. It is because human beings are philosophers by nature, as Mr. Jourdain talked in prose (Molière, Le bourgeois gentilhomme/The Bourgeois Gentleman or The Would-Be Gentleman). They are even metaphysicians, said Schopenhauer. It is not surprising that this is confirmed in young people with severe disabilities. An experience that benefits us all. Bruno Bérard.
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Metaphysics and Philosophy
Let’s not be semi-clever!
Pascal explicitly criticizes this common figure of the “semi-skilled,” undoubtedly inspired by Montaigne. Bourdieu, for his part, refers to “half-learned people.” What is important here is the idea that ignorance is both the starting point and the end point of the path to knowledge—which invites a posture of humility. Beyond this philosophical perspective, Pascal also hints at a dimension that could be described as Gnostic.
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Metaphysics and metapolitics
Metapolitical Eschatology
This article explores the metapolitical eschatologies of Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) and Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900). By applying the methodological framework of Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), the result is a metapolitical synthesis that transcends deterministic or purely theological models, highlighting a living, participatory path toward eschaton rooted in both human action and divine calling.
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Metaphysics and Science
Metaphysics of consciousness
In the history of thought, there is general agreement that ancient philosophy can be distinguished from modern philosophy. However, this distinction, although suggested by the chronological separation of works—created by the Middle Ages, when the question of the relationship between the truths of faith and the teachings of metaphysics dominated—is also based on differences that […]
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Metaphysics and Philosophy
One body for two
The concrete physical experience of motherhood (“one body for two”) allows us to relegate philosophical questions about gender to their rightful place, to talk about the female body without gender connotations, and to think about this place of origin for all of us, through pregnancy, as a “being-with” that precedes and makes possible the separate being that will be born. By reporting on this sociologically and philosophically, the philosopher—a woman and mother of three children—touches on this metaphysics of relationship, a necessary complement to the interminable metaphysics of being, and the ethical implications are huge.
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Metaphysics and metapolitics
From Economic Irresponsibility to Political Irresponsibility: Toward Universal Apoliticism
In the world governed by supply and demand, any attempt to regulate the excesses of supply ultimately reveals its inherent irresponsibility. At the same time, the limited scope of such regulatory measures exposes the political and legislative irresponsibility of those in power. This dual failure—economic and political—helps to explain the broader phenomenon of generalized irresponsibility. It sheds light on why the state appears increasingly apolitical and why citizens themselves are progressively disengaging from political life.
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Metaphysics and Philosophy
Metaphysics and axiology
Where do values come from? In economics, we know that high demand contributes to the value of coveted goods. It is more subtle in philosophy. In what capacity would Good or Truth be values? While axiology (the science of values) has not been able to establish itself, a more metaphysical point of view, based on tripartite human nature (body, psyche, spirit) seems to resolve the question.
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Metaphysics
The Metaphysical, Source of all Science and Essence of all Religion
If we always come back to Plato and Aristotle, it is because they have established once and for all, scientifically and philosophically, what the Cause is and how it can be accessed; this is what is known as metaphysics. Therefore, all science depends on it and all religion essentially relates to it.
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Metaphysics and metapolitics
About the Manufacture de l’homme apolitique
If “democracy” itself, plutocratic from the outset in the USA as well as in France, and explicitly confiscating power from the people, ends up transforming citizens into apolitical inhabitants, ultraliberalism, by vassalizing the States, gradually renders them just as apolitical. The manufacture of apolitical man is an irreversible trend. If Caëla Gillespie’s meticulous analysis makes awareness clear, we’ll just have to devise a plan of action for resistance.
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Metaphysics and metapolitics
Wealth production: an unthought-of aspect of economic theory
The pursuit of productivity for its own sake, by lowering prices and increasing volumes, certainly makes it possible to capture a greater share of the value circulating in trade. But it is here that the contradiction inherent in the idea of “wealth production” becomes clear, long after Adam Smith: in the relentless quest to produce better, faster and therefore cheaper, we destroy the value of what we produce, hoping to capture a greater share of wha twe don’t produce.
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Metaphysics and Science
On the Difference between Artificial and Human Intelligence and the Ethical Implications of Their Confusion.
Professor Sarah Spiekermann chaires the Institute for Information Systems and Society at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna) since 2009. A recognized scientist in the field of digital ethics, in 2016 she founded the Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab at the University of Vienna (renamed “ Sustainability Computing Lab ” in 2020) and served as vice-chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) working group that resulted in the first IEEE Standard Model Process for Addressing Ethical Concerns during System Design: the IEEE Std 7000™-2021 standard.