Sublime

Pendant des siècles, la Vie des hommes illustres de Plutarque fabrique nombre de tempéraments dans l’Europe judéo-chrétienne, de Montaigne à Charlotte Corday, parente de Corneille, lui aussi nourri au lait romain, en passant par Érasme et Rabelais, Bacon et La Boétie, de Maistre et Rousseau, Shakespeare et Emerson, ainsi que les autres transcendent

view. For instance, in the mid-1700s David Hume wrote a lot about the “natural benevolence” of human beings. And a century later, even Charles Darwin himself attributed an “instinct of sympathy” to our species. But

PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.

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When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisf

Sartre publia les deux premiers volumes de sa suite romanesque, Les Chemins de la liberté, écrits des années plus tôt et dont l’action se déroule en 1938. Son personnage principal, Mathieu Delarue, abandonne son ancienne conception naïve de la liberté, conçue comme simple égoïsme du « fais ce qu’il te plaît », pour s’acheminer vers une meilleure dé

the great political and consumer revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led to psychological anguish even as they vastly improved the material lot of mankind, it is because of an extraordinary new ideal around which they were founded: a practical belief in the innate equality of all humans and in the unlimited power of anyone to ach