in the editorial of the issue Madame Figaro On June 7, the co-founder and president of the Monaco Philosophical Meetings talks to us about the absolute necessity of hope, which is overcome by force when faced with reality.
Today the danger seems great. it operates on so many different levels that our survival seems threatened. Climate catastrophe, wars that are being won step by step, a civilizational and cognitive breakdown consisting of the omnipotence of digital technologies, networks and artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of hate speech, what does it allow us? What do we have to offer in order to orient ourselves in the mind?
I strongly believe in the enlightenment of philosophers, including those with Madame Figaro we invite you in this issue. Not to dispel our concerns and provide ready-made answers, but to bring a little clarity to our confused ideas, while avoiding the bright tomorrow lie or nihilistic temptation.
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Philosophy arises where we feel our vulnerability and helplessness. He seeks to face it responsibly. Through these upheavals, one finds oneself able to question oneself and reconnect with hope. As the philosopher Corinne Pelluchon says, when reality disappoints and discourages us, “we vacillate between hope and disappointment, arrogance and resentment.”
Our suffering becomes the only truth and we hope like children that anything is possible. It is quite different with hope, which involves a different relationship to ourselves, to the world, to others, to time. It arises when we have lost all our illusions, when all our certainties have collapsed. It is the trait of a tragic and torn conscience that compels us to drink from a deeper and more original source, from something greater than our little selves, lest we sink into the darkness of melancholy and the destructive fury that is the basis of breeding. all hate speech.
The power of hope
The public sphere is sorely lacking in stories that spark potential futures. It is not in a radical break with what has hurt or disappointed us that we will be able to explore the possibilities. Rather, it is from uncertainty, from our sense of fragility, that hope itself is anchored. Through hope, we become more capable of discernment and responsibility.
Hope obliges us to drink from a deeper and more original source, something bigger than our little selves, so that we don’t sink into the darkness of melancholy.
Charlotte Casiraghi
“You should have seen your will humbled by grief,” writes Corinne Pelluchon. Hope is won with pain and effort, at the cost of a difficult confrontation with evil. If we agree to do this crossing of the impossible, if we give up the illusory omnipotence of our certainty, the “unexpected” can occur.
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Source: Le Figaro
