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Le Vautre

['Member']Joined: June 21, 2019 at 16:24Last active: July 14, 2019 at 22:531 discussions14 comments
Location: France

Bio

French historian-in-training, occasional “philosopheur”. I define myself as a bergsonian intuitionist, that is to say (fundamentally) skeptical.

Favourite Philosopher

Bergson

Favourite Quotations

Is it me — you?

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In: E.M. Cioran Aphorism Analysis  — view comment
Besides, the "M" (for Michel or Mihai) in "E. M. Cioran" is incorrect. (I don't know where it comes from; it's a recurrent mistake in both French and ...
June 25, 2019 at 20:45
In: American education vs. European Education  — view comment
The French people from de 50s/60s say the same thing! :lol: Until the 1960s, it was commonplace here that the teacher must physically punished his stu...
June 25, 2019 at 20:25
In: American education vs. European Education  — view comment
I know a bit about American and Dutch education systems. Comparing with France, these three systems are far more relaxed (that is to say, they are ped...
June 25, 2019 at 19:56
In: E.M. Cioran Aphorism Analysis  — view comment
In other words, to ek-sist!
June 25, 2019 at 18:23
In: E.M. Cioran Aphorism Analysis  — view comment
... ... Don't forget to be not to not be, but to para-be, that is to say to be the one who don't go away! :joke:
June 25, 2019 at 18:18
In: E.M. Cioran Aphorism Analysis  — view comment
In the long run it's not amusing at all. It's even a little bit toxic. Lacan said about the saint: "we don't know where he takes us"... It can be true...
June 25, 2019 at 17:12
In: E.M. Cioran Aphorism Analysis  — view comment
Yes, "grinding rose" meaning "to be optimistic". I read/listen (interviews) a fair bit of Cioran, and I gave up analysis of his thoughts few years ago...
June 25, 2019 at 16:44
In: E.M. Cioran Aphorism Analysis  — view comment
:lol:
June 25, 2019 at 16:28
In: The Fourth Way  — view comment
The triangle is a geometrical object which, normally, is seen as a full revelation of itself. Nevertheless, the phenomenological reduction tells us th...
June 23, 2019 at 17:45
In: The Fourth Way  — view comment
I think here Aquinas was inspired by Luke 13:24-29. Strangely, this quest of authenticity did not appeal Heidegger. Yet he said that a real man is a m...
June 23, 2019 at 15:16
In: Camus vs Sartre  — view comment
Camus was for sure less theoretical than Sartre. Nevertheless, Camus was also a real humanitarian when Sartre was cleary a communist who's not interes...
June 23, 2019 at 12:15
In: Camus vs Sartre  — view comment
A very interesting conference-debate, but only in French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yoo3mlnkB1M
June 23, 2019 at 10:22
In: The lacanian difference between Jesus and Christ  — view comment
Look by yourself: Nietzsche, The Antichrist, §60. But Nietzsche loved epidermal reactions. If he likes France, it's against Germany, that is to say be...
June 22, 2019 at 10:43
In: The lacanian difference between Jesus and Christ  — view comment
Jesus and Christ are signifiants, so (automatically) they are a mixture of Imaginary and Real. Nevertheless when I say Jesus I speak about the singula...
June 21, 2019 at 22:00
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