“One of the greatest evils of our time is that we no longer believe in anything.”
Andrea Marcolongo. Fabian Clairfond
TRIBUNE – The suppression of a sense of the sacred in contemporary society has led to a moral and aesthetic decline, argues the Hellenist Andrea Marcolongo*. He invites us to draw on Greek wisdom to reconnect with this human need for faith.
*Andrea Marcolongo is Hellenic and graduated in Classics. Will be published soon Move the moon out of its orbit In the Ma nuit au musée collection in Stock.
A few weeks ago, I had the honor of accompanying a group of readers to Athens who were curious to discover the miracle of culture and science that was classical Greece. While chatting with them in the ancient agora, I realized how far the ancient Greeks directed their philosophy and way of life towards the pursuit of happiness. And how, in comparison, we modern ones do not look sad, but rather depressed.
The classic “beautiful and good” binomial talk was nothing more than an analysis of what makes a person happy here on earth, but always with an eye on heaven. The sense of sacredness was not conceived in contrast to science but in addition to science – still we moderns, who cut these two different aspects and since then, one without the other, science without …
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