If there was to be a book equivalent to Sun Tzu’s Art of War for the land of the rising sun, it would be the one we are going to deal with today: the book of the 5 rings (also called the book of the 5 wheels) by Miyamoto Musashi. Much more than a military strategy book, it is a…
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It’s a word that we don’t hear much today, yet “lust” has been the subject of longstanding theological debates and its denunciation was commonplace not so long ago. The disappearance of this term from people’s mouths is not a sign of the disappearance of the phenomenon, on the contrary, it shows that lust has so permeated our societies that it…
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Fighting replaceability by fighting superficiality. The tools we have at our disposal to communicate serve us until the day we realize that we are at their service through the dependency we have created for ourselves. In his book, “The Shallows”, Nicholas G. Carr explains the cognitive harms of embracing a lifestyle in which the machine and artificial intelligence would have…
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A hectic life is what is touted everywhere, whether in movies, contemporary music or social networks. But is living at a hundred miles an hour really reasonable? Are we made for permanent intensity? Isn’t there a risk of losing our skin or our soul? Let’s see all the reasons that push us to slow down and reconsider our relationship with…
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Life has become a bucket list, a list of things to do before you die such as skydiving, petting dolphins, climbing the Himalayas. Should we be happy with such a society that is not short of imagination when it comes to planning its next vacation? We have definitely entered the era of the leisure society, at least for a part…
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We are destined to fulfill our destiny. How can we act knowing that there is a destiny written in stone? Some religions readily admit the existence of destiny. What is the best attitude to have if we admit the postulate of its existence? Let’s look at several possible scenarios. The hedonistic temptation “Let’s let our instincts do the work since…
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Natural, necessary and vain desires Contrary to the dominant thought, Epicureanism is not a radical hedonism. On the contrary, it is a philosophy that focuses on living in an essentialist way, that is to say, eliminating the superfluous to achieve happiness. As such, happiness is achieved when you no longer feel the need to seek it. If you have eaten,…
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In a fast-changing world, economic paradigms are changing to take on the appearance of simplicity and common sense. In his book “Bullshit jobs”, David Graeber explains how the jobs created by modernity are absurd, immoral and in some cases stupid. The information technology revolution has created a parallel world in which jobs don’t quite make the sense they used to.…
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Arguments from Cal Newport’s book “So Good They Can’t Ignore You”. A mantra has gradually imposed itself in today’s society and more particularly in the professional sphere. This mantra is “Do what you like”. If this invitation is tempting, it is no less dangerous. At least that’s what Cal Newport tries to tell us in a book published in 2012.…
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Do not let yourself be contaminated by bitterness Confronting the world on a daily basis leaves us with traces that take the form of bitterness that we detect in people’s eyes. To continue to live with a fresh and optimistic mind, we sometimes have to go against a whole bunch of negative energies that can leave us destitute. Do we…
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