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Luc Ferry: “Narcissism and personal happiness have become the alpha and omega of all life”

2022-11-28T18:33:49.097Z


BIG INTERVIEW - In a rich and original essay, The Happy Life. Ancient wisdom and secular spirituality, the philosopher offers a new spirituality, which is not limited to the religious framework, but which aims to meet the challenges of the modern world.


LE FIGARO.

- In your latest book, you focus on thinking about the conditions for a happy life on earth.

Is humanity experiencing a moment of rupture?

Why should we rethink our way of inhabiting the world?

Luc Ferry.

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Indeed, I think that we are experiencing a break with past centuries, a fault in civilization linked to the deconstruction in the 20th century of traditional values ​​and authorities.

This major upheaval is characterized first of all in an obvious way by the fact that we have moved from philosophies and religions of deferred happiness to ideologies of happiness here and now.

To take an image that everyone will understand, we are experiencing the victory of the first little pig who wants everything right away over the third who works before going to play.

The reason is due to a ground swell, that of the deconstruction in the second half of the 20th century of the two great sacrificial narratives that dominated Europe, communism and Christianity...

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Source: lefigaro

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