An ethics of re-enchantment

A disenchanted world is a soulless world. And a soulless world offers no intimacy, no dialogue and no communication. In a soulless world, we are infinitely alone. The utilitarian worldview not only kills things by considering them dead, but imprisons us in the cramped cell of the Ego, preventing us from accessing the free creativity of our Self. We have taken our disenchantment too far: nothing affects us deeply, nothing truly touches us, we are indifferent to everything. We even brazenly flaunt our disenchantment as a badge of virility and emancipation. But indifference, not caring about anything, is the suicide of the soul.

By the same author, in English: Kindness. For an ethics of re-enchantment (2018); Lessons in inhumanity. Why so much violence? (2020).