LE FIGARO.
- You publish
L'Abolition de l'âme
(Éditions du Cerf), a stimulating essay in which you deplore the erasure of the soul in our culture.
But what is the soul?
How to define it?
Robert REDEKER.
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Let's share this idea with Simone Weil: the intuition of the soul is universal.
This intuition of oneself as a spiritual being, which navigates from the vague to the very precise, according to people and societies, distinguishes man from other animals.
This type of sense of self - spiritual sense of self - is the real difference securing the boundary between man and beast.
Signaling his bipolarity, it is in man the trace of his belonging to a world other than the terrestrial world alone.
The soul is a presence that our inner life discovers.
It reveals itself to us in the movement of deepening this inner life.
Therefore, it is the most intimate part of ourselves.
It is intimacy par excellence, cut from a fabric other than matter.
The man is the…
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