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About
The philosophical reflection I pursue is neither a search for truths nor a hunt for ways to change a world riven by oppositions and idealisations. It rests on a way of life oriented towards re-examining, distance and peace.
Last articles
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From Antiquity to the Dawn of Modern Revolutions: Did Commerce Foster Equality?
In Antiquity, the wealth of states rested first and foremost on agriculture.1 While commerce contributed to collective enrichment, it operated within social frameworks shaped by religion and politics. Military victories, for their part, provided booty, slaves and, in cases of conquest, new sources of revenue. By the late Middle Ages, commerce had acquired civic respectability […]
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How Interests and Values Rose and Virtue Declined (16th–18th Centuries)
In The Passions and the Interests (1977), the historian Albert O. Hirschman shows how, in the 17th and 18th centuries, the concept of interest established itself as the pivot of justificatory frameworks in political economy.1 His enquiry draws in particular on 17th-century moral philosophy, as well as on Montesquieu, Hume, and Smith. Building on those […]
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How Technologies Are Eroding Creative Destruction
Contemporary technologies inspire radically divergent diagnoses. On one side, they are portrayed as the main engine of a new wave of growth and jobs, driven by automation, computing, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. On the other, they are taken to signal a darker rupture, in which work tends to recede—up to the point of […]
Last snapshots
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The Drivers of Contemporary Political Chessboards
A host of emotions can crowd in today at the sight of contemporary political and geopolitical theatres: indignation and anger, stoked by proliferating violence and injustice; anxiety generated by technological revolutions and the unpredictability of actors; sadness caused by party fragmentation and national discord; joy sparked by fleeting victories; weariness sustained by the reproduction of…
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From Freedom of Thought to Re-examination
Freedom of thought has been my primary orientation since July 2023, when I first set out the concept of an “orientation of life”,1 and it remained so until now. In keeping with the Enlightenment,2 I conceived of it as a way of rationally calling dogmas, prejudices and practices into question. However, I was aware of…