Philosophy is a compulsory subject at Lycee, n'est ce pas?
I'm quite fond of existentialism - forget the angst , you get to
create yourself. That's optimistic. It was the French who made made
it gloomy tho' I suspect that Sartre did that because it was a good
way to pull chicks.
I delight constantly in the contradictions of French thinking and
society.
Develop a philosophy that values acting impulsively. Why not
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 11/06/2006, at 12:46 PM, Manuel Viet wrote:
> But only americans remember about it ; you'd be hard pressed to
> find someone
> knowing something about it in the general population (I happen to
> know what
> it is because my mother is a litterature teacher) :-) And to know
> if someone
> actually believed in existentialism here for more than a second is
> a mystery.
> We love to create theories, and vocaly dispute them ; but when it
> comes to
> behaviour, we're much more pragmatic than you imagine.
>
> In fact, I'd say we generaly justify our actions by an ad hoc theory,
> carefully crafted on purpose. We don't like to give the impression
> that our
> actions are dictated by necessity, because we have an historical
> worship for
> reason. So we disguise our impulsions under a thin veil of
> philosophy. But
> nobody's fooled by that here. Only strangers are.
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