Love of Mankind as the Irreligion of the Future
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2008.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : What may be a morality disengaged from religion and metaphysics, from obligation and sanction? This main question of the French philosopher Jean-Marie Guyau is here addressed in a sharp criticism of self-love and a “vitalist” defence of enthusiasm. If no one can live only for himself, isn’t it because everyone feels this common sentiment requiring to give and develop life, to found something? Love for other or altruism is then one of the ways to mingle ourselves and our lives with the life of mankind, in order that something from us flows in the society and contribute to the expansion of our selves.
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What may be a morality disengaged from religion and metaphysics, from obligation and sanction? This main question of the French philosopher Jean-Marie Guyau is here addressed in a sharp criticism of self-love and a “vitalist” defence of enthusiasm. If no one can live only for himself, isn’t it because everyone feels this common sentiment requiring to give and develop life, to found something? Love for other or altruism is then one of the ways to mingle ourselves and our lives with the life of mankind, in order that something from us flows in the society and contribute to the expansion of our selves.
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