An approach that led him to seek "the sacred, not in the Hereafter, but lici there," a rigorous approach, as so often with him, and soothed. An almost environmentalist approach to life, but an ecology that refuses to put man at the center but takes a broader perspective in which man is only part of a whole. Long ranked left, we feel that the philosopher is far from the narrow political concerns with this book, it may be elsewhere in this that wisdom Onfray claims presented in this book is unincorporated, the latter being hailed and violated both every corner of the political spectrum. "We must be content with what nature shows us," he wrote humbly while unrolling his vision of our relationship with time, living beings and our relationship to the "sublime", defined as "the experience of the vastness of the world" .
Contemplating the world recover the founding intuitions of time, of life, of nature, understand its mysteries and the lessons it gives us. Such is the ambition of this very personal book, which revives the Greek and pagan ideal of human wisdom in harmony with the world.
Before "Decadence", which will deal with the history and of "Wisdom", dedicated to the issue of ethics and happiness, "Cosmos" presents a philosophy of nature to everyone and far from reassuring marked trails that make our eternal single thought on many subjects.
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