Fabrice Hadjadj is a philosopher, director of the Philanthropos Institute, a place of training in Christian anthropology located in Friborg, Switzerland.
Last work published: À moi la glory (Éditions Salvator, 2019, 160 pages, 15 €).
Like the plague in Sophocles, the epidemic of coronavirus brings us back to the tragic dimension of our condition: the confrontation with an irreducible evil, explains with elevation the philosopher. While Christians are going to live Easter confined and without sacraments, how to avoid the victory of the virtual over the carnal?
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"Confinement can lose us in our shelves, but it is also an opportunity to reinvent the family table and rediscover the sense of a culture always more new than our innovations," observes Fabrice Hadjadj. And the thinker sees in the deprivation of rites for Christians the opportunity to rediscover their price.
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