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extrait de 50 big Ideas you really need to know : Ben Dupre ed Quercus

" Greater than the thread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come" the French novelist Victor Hugo understood the combination of substance and timing that come together to form an idea that really shakes things up - that is destine to be be big. But bigness can come in many guises : big and beautiful, big and ugly, big and scary. Ideas can be big in all these ways and so maybe admirable, despicable or intimidating

the aim of philosophy, Adam Smith suggested, is "to lay open the convealed connectrions that unite the various appeareances of nature". In th light of such lofty ambitions, it is little surprise that psilosoophers have provided some of the most spacious of big ideas.......no less profound is philosophy's frequent adversary and occasional ally, religion - a spiritual path to a different kind of truth. Faith, soul and other central ideas of religion are fundamental in understanding how poeple judge the value and meaning of life. at the same time, positions taken in opposition to religion, such as atheism and secularism, have forged new and distinctive perspectives on the world

annee 2009