LE FIGARO. - In these trying days for all, what great minds do you recommend reading? What thinkers are you reading yourself now?
Michel ONFRAY. - To think about the question of the coronavirus, the best is to have recourse to Nietzsche, in particular to his genealogical method. The German philosopher indeed helps to think about the question of causality in an era that likes to activate the categories of magic thought. The conspiracy versions are raging, the religious readings also: an invention of capital to make profits, a creation of the Americans to suppress Chinese supremacy, even a Chinese project, but also, version of the brother of Tariq Ramadan, a divine punishment because delirium of the mores of our time, there is no lack of delirium. Philosophy helps to activate the rational causalities constructed by the atomist, materialist and epicurean philosophers of Antiquity.
As for the authors to read, it is without question towards ancient philosophy
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