According to Taoist thought, harmony proceeds from a subtle balance between the yin and yang forces, respectively the feminine and masculine energies. These are expressed in various ways: Yin refers to the unconscious, to the static, to the night, to curves, to the Moon, to calm, to slowness or even to softness, etc. Conversely, the yang concepts are the conscious,…
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The condemnation of desertion has played the role of binding societies for many centuries. It sensitized generations of men to this notion of courage and duty while insinuating the consequences of cowardice: physical or social death. The demonization of the deserter has made it possible to instill values of boldness and sacrifice in a duelist logic by identifying the good…
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The imperatives of health security and the possibilities offered today by technology have made it possible to set up tracing solutions intended to monitor contacts between citizens. Should we rejoice in such a feat? First, let’s think together about the problems and the benefits of such systems. The questions raised by plotting applications are numerous. There is a philosophical and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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