Beauty seems to play a role with regard to the moral education of the people and conversely. This has found a plural expression over time. First of all, beauty was considered to be a divine manifestation of which nature is the best expression. The idea of beauty was built intimately with the idea of harmony. Harmony brings a feeling of…
+Category: General
Can We Visit Museums Online?
Visiting a museum is a special experience. It combines both the sensible and intellectual while allowing the interaction of the two. Why visit an online museum he can never recreate the in-situ experience? A museum is a collection of art works, it has a cultural, educational and political vocation. Its goal is to bequeath a heritage to a population so…
+France: a Tribalist or a Universalist?
A key to understanding the French political divide is to recognize that France and its culture are a tangled web of contradictory ideas grounded in the struggle between conflicting ideologies over the course of French history. To make sense of it all, one needs to understand two concepts : tribalism and universalism. These two conflicting principles lie at the heart…
+6 Myths Of Love
Loving is perhaps the hardest thing to do, isn’t it? Why that? Let’s discover together some common misconceptions about the issue. Let us understand the requirement that love implies. 1- Love is a feeling To love someone, you must first know how to love yourself, which is not always easy. Often the love we are talking about is not true.…
+10 new reasons to learn French
1. To have a different point of view on the world It is always good to have a different point of view on the news and the world in general. The economy is dominated by Anglo-Saxon and capitalist thinking. French vision and sensitivity are different. French elites, whether intellectual, political or media moguls are influenced by literature, philosophy, history and…
+10 reasons to enjoy the massive spread of telework
Greater family-work balance: more presence at home By definition, working at home means staying with loved ones for longer. Less pollution Reducing daily commutes drastically improves air quality and therefore the health of city dwellers. Less time lost in transport The other advantage of teleworking is the saving of time which can sometimes represent several hours per day. These same…
+Reflections On Socialism
What’s striking about the division of the world politically is the propensity of countries to accept or reject socialism, for example. There is a head-on opposition between capitalism and socialism. The former, one might say, is natural and existed long before the word capitalism was coined. Indeed, in Antiquity and even long before, in the Paleolithic for example, people bartered…
+Listening To The Weak Signals
According to the website www.sitra.fi, “a weak signal is an indicator of a potentially emerging issue, that may become significant in the future. Weak signals supplement trend analysis and they can be used to expand on alternate futures.” We are not really educated to listen or look for weak signals. Our education system is designed to make us replicate the…
+Foresee Or Perish
Why are we inclined to conformism? We’re afraid of regretting our actions if we take the risk of innovating, instead of conforming. This is a somewhat understandable fear since when it comes to innovation 50 % may succeed, but also another 50 % may doomed to oblivion because of failure. This explains why conformity is a safe guarantee of survival…
+What Can Ancient Egypt Teach Us?
The sun was on the top of the Egyptian pantheon. Why is this so? It’s simply because all lives depend on it. Why should we revere the sun and seek to emanate its qualities? First, we need to appreciate the inner qualities of the sun in order give it a human dimension (personify it). The sun is radiant, it gives…
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