The Philosopher’s Odyssey: from Ulysses to Daedalus
From repetition to liberation? The philosopher’s journey, from Ulysses to Daedalus.
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#3.1 From Ulysses to Daedalus
Can man free himself from the fatality of the return of carnage, figured by Ulysses, through the labor that transforms reality, figured by Daedalus?
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#3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus
How does modernity, since the French Revolution, repeat the alternation of classicism and romanticism, and is this repetition a return to the same or a spiral?
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#3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus
How can we assume the contradiction between the Greek and Christian heritages without falling back into the old counter-revolutionary thought that presents itself as new?
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#3.4 From Ulysses to Daedalus
What relation does philosophy hold, in its principle, with politics?
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#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus
Why does Plato's allegory of the cave already contain the whole program of philosophy, from knowledge to the return to politics?
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#3.6 From Ulysses to Daedalus
How does one pass from the theoretical order (what can I know?) to the practical order (what must I do?), and why is Rousseau, "Newton of morality," the decisive figure for this?