The first is that of ancient wisdoms. We find it already formulated in
Homer's
Odyssey
and we can say it “cosmological” in the sense that the good life is defined there as the bringing into harmony of oneself with the harmony of the cosmos, this order of the world which transcends the human being and that environmentalists today want to protect. Now, as the cosmos is eternal, by adjusting to it like a fragment of a puzzle being added to the overall picture, by putting oneself, so to speak, "in harmony with harmony", one becomes in some way self- even a fragment of eternity, which is a first way of defining wisdom at the same time as salvation understood as a kind of victory over death.
The second answer is that of the great religions which plead for a bringing into harmony of oneself, no longer with the cosmos, but with the divine commandments, a harmony which can also open to us the doors of eternity, even of immortality. more personal than that, anonymous and blind, promised
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