“Hope is an order of action, not an art of escape,” Laurence Deviller. Hannah ASSOULINE/opale.photo
INTERVIEW – How to stay positive during this stressful time? For the philosopher Lawrence Deviller, worry itself gives us clarity, the strength to resist despair, the will to act for the future for which we are responsible.
Nothing or very little in our times invites us to feel calm and confident. The idea of collapse saturates our news, from Gaza to Ukraine, from global warming to social crisis… How can we resist feelings of hopelessness, fear, anger, helplessness, melancholy in this anxiety-inducing climate? ? How to heal from the violence of the world? Philosophy can offer some solutions to these questions, without necessarily giving miraculous answers.
Philosopher, scholar of the 17th centurye century, Lawrence Deviller has long been interested in what ails us. In several notable trials – Healing life through philosophy (Ed. PUF, 2017), Be a good person (Ed. PUF, 2019), or Pascal’s philosophy, the principle of restlessness (Ed. PUF, 2022) – it opens horizons to adapt our restlessness to the possibility of return, hope, responsibility, openness to the beauty of the world that persists. Against…
Source: Le Figaro
