Occupation: Philosopher Birth: January 1, 1959
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for ….
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; ….
I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas..
I have a big problem with Islam..
I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, fe….
Religion is an irrational construct..
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks..
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy..
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings t….
How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should rev….
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better..
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teac….
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the ….
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw….
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition..