L'étude d'Ann Van Sevenant se fonde sur l'un des textes les plus anciens de l'humanité, appelés les Gothas. Ces chants, attribués à Zarathushtra Spitama, sont à l'origine de la religion zoroastrienne, qui a eu une influence considérable sur les trois monothéismes et qui est encore pratiquée aujourd'hui par 250 000 personnes dans le monde. Mais il y a aussi une dimension existentielle dans la pensée de Zarathoustra dont les grands philosophes orientaux et occidentaux se sont inspirés tout au long de (...) l'histoire, entre autres, Pythagore, Héraclite, Platon, Aristote, Plotin, Mani, Augustin, Avicenne,Thomas d'Aquin, Pléthon, Ficino, Spinoza, Hume,Voltaire, Kant, Hegel et Nietzsche. Cet ouvrage propose une nouvelle approche de la philosophie à partir de Zarathoustra."--Page 4 of cover. (shrink)

The concept of "the mediate" — a central notion in the philosophy of Aristotle and Hegel — is the starting point in this article on touching. It reveals that touching is less immediate than our philosophical tradition seems to admit. That is at least the position Derrida defends in a recent book in which he focusses on the priority of touching . Together with the study of the paradox that Derrida discovers in Husserl's text on the hierarchy of the senses, (...) it is Derrida's underlining of the priority of touching itself that is here being questioned. One wonders if the notion haptophilia, instead of haptocentrism, would not have been more accurate. Moreover, if Derrida's argument in general sensitizes for the less immediate aspects of the philosophical text and context, it is the more mediate dimension of touching that is actually being stressed. And since mediate aspects can never be addressed directly and explicitly, the critique of haptocentrism appears to be a matter of drawing attention to the mediate in an indirect way. In other words, the love for the mediate is itself expressed in an indirect and mediate way. (shrink)

Veut montrer en quoi l'étude du souci de soi de Foucault, du souci en soi de Heidegger, du souci d'autrui d'Arendt, s'en est suivi de la perte de vue du principe de sollicitude, et de la mise en valeur et du besoin d'une éthique réparatrice. Il s'agit d'orienter le souci vers la sollicitude.

In most Western university studies, Greek philosophy is considered the most ancient kind of wisdom, but the Zoroastrian way of life can be traced back to the second millennium BC. The Gathas, hymns or songs attributed to Zarathustra, hold an existential and practical philosophy avant la lettre. It is based on mental exercises and on rituals that have survived thanks to the Zoroastrian religious communities. Not only does the Persian thinker unveil a mental wisdom for us; he also introduces us (...) to an ecological concern and a social practice. There is a cosmopolite dimension to Zarathustra's proto-philosophy that we can all apply in a personal way. (shrink)