George Steiner  is «a secular Jew […] on reading terms with the major Christian theologian and writers […]. As a Jew he combines knowledge of things Jewish with an unusual sensitivity to things Christian.»[1]   George Steiner’s work can be considered a long soliloquy, sometimes criticized for its excessive assertiveness, obsessivity and rhetoricity. In […]

  Schools and classrooms are “communities of practice” (Torney-Purta et al., 2007), where students can experience and practice democracy (Flanagan, 2013; Nieuwelink et al., 2016; Maurissen et al., 2018), and where they gain participatory skills in debates and collaborative decision-making processes (Godfrey et al., 2014). In this scenario, words become tools for knowledge acquisition and […]

  Dialogue is the way that mature humanity uses as a tool to solve its problems in almost all areas. In order not to be misleading, dialogue must have its own rules; actually, it is necessary that the parties assume mutual respect for human dignity, freedom of expression, and respect for the environment as a […]

  Pope Francis’ encyclical “Fratelli tutti” proposes the so-called parable of the Good Samaritan[1] as the paradigm of a fraternity understood as a social friendship (see Fratelli tutti, n. 56-86). This proposal is of interest to the moral philosopher for at least a couple of reasons.   The first reason is that the Samaritan’s attitude […]

  The Encyclical Fratelli tutti is rich in suggestions. The text works on a “rhizomatic” basis, that corresponds to its inspiring principles, i.e. fraternity and social friendship. The ultimate goal of these principles is extending to all human beings the grace of a bond that projects the light of Salvation on human history. Pope Francis […]

  Fraternity Social Friendship during the Time of Social Distancing 6-10 septembre 2021   6 septembre : Luca VALERA (PUC), Distance and Presence in a Technological Environment 7 septembre : Matteo RIZZOLLI (Università Lumsa), Covid-19 and Social Preferences 8 septembre : Emmanuel FALQUE (ICP), Fraternity and Solitude 9 septembre : Stephanie COLLINS (ACU), Loneliness and […]

  For more than a year now, we have been witnessing the biggest limitation of fundamental freedoms since the Second World War, at least in Europe and in many democratic countries. Limitations on social life, on traveling, on worship have become daily life for us. An unprecedented limitation of freedoms (in the plural) urges us […]

Jérôme de Gramont, professeur de philosophie à l’Institut Catholique de Paris, donne un séminaire sur « L’autre humanisme de la phénoménologie – Sur quelques pages d’Emmanuel Lévinas ».  

Je suis professeur : je travaille avec des paroles. Je sais comment remplir de paroles toute espèce d’espace ou de temps. Je sais comment captiver l’attention d’un auditoire avec une parole amusante ou une autre émouvante. Je sais comment m’en tirer avec élégance lorsqu’on n’a pas réponse à toutes les demandes. Cela, je l’ai appris, […]