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Robert Redeker: "We are experiencing an unprecedented anthropological reversal"

2020-11-08T22:26:42.800Z


TRIBUNE - The philosopher, author in particular of “The Eclipse of Death” (DDB), a powerful reflection on the occultation of death in our societies, wonders about the inversion of duties between generations caused by the health crisis.


Containment and the string of bans, put in place to respond to the Covid-19 epidemic, have the appearances of common sense, generosity, benevolence, humanitarianism.

They speak of the obvious, the self-evident and the natural.

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From all memory, human tradition affirmed: parents sacrifice themselves - "bleed in all four veins", according to the popular expression - for their children.

For the lineage.

This has been the case since the origins of our species, since death appeared within life to allow the replacement of generations.

“Life is continuous”,

wrote François Jacob: the sacrifice of human beings is as necessary as it is natural for the continuity of life, for the passage of generations, for this

“succession which knows no interruption”

.

Matrix of becoming, life is a Heraclitean river in which we never bathe a second time.

And it is also comparable to an amniotic fluid, a primitive river which never ceases

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Source: lefigaro

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