Category: crealectics
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Nothing that is possible is bad, because it is only possible, not yet real.
It starts, for example, with a smile that draws our attention away from the inner diving without which one’s inner health cannot be explored. The surface manifestations, as distracting, pleasant or distasteful as they are, are not the heart of philosophical health. In order to access a singular truth, one needs to dive in one’s…
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The Era of Commiseration and Indifference
We live in a world of commiseration and indifference, which are the two faces of the same extremist coin. Commiseration needs to generate the misery its feeds upon – co-miseration as the constant coproduction of misery, sad passions and victimisation on a global scale. Indifference is partly produced by the commiseration imperative of humanism, as…
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What is a Regenerative University?
What is a Regenerative University? A debate with Kristen Lyons, Mats Målqvist and Luis de Miranda
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The Art of Triumph – Crealectics & Virtue Ethics
I am delighted to announce the imminent (April) publication of my popular science book on virtue ethics and crealectics, written together with my friend Jean-Sébastien Hongre. For the moment only in French.
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Africa and The Metaphysics of Toothpaste
When I was 16, I traveled alone to Africa. The country was Guinea-Bissau, which was a Portuguese colony until 1974. When my mother was pregnant with me, back in 1971, she was a teacher in Guinea-Bissau; even though I was born in Portugal, you could say that this was the second time I traveled to…
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Three Types of Evolution? On Evolutionary Love
Peirce argues that there are three forms of evolution: evolution by fortuitous variation, evolution by mechanical necessity, and evolution by creative love. Peirce, Charles S. “Evolutionary Love.” In Philosophical Writings of Peirce, 364. New York: Dover Publications, 1955. ]
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