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CUltimate of the precaution or nihilist in contrast to? Resigned catastrophism or presumptuous religion in progress? In the period of calamities, we now not know what extra dedicates to. To keep away from these traps, a small check, Risk prudence (Gallimard), by Catherine Van Offelen, suggests a detour by antiquity.

The creator extricates an idea born beneath the pen of Aristotle earlier than irrigating the Greek thought: the Phronesis, An artwork of deciding that suggests cause and instinct, physique and thoughts, morality and crafty. A time period that we translate awkwardly by “prudence” when it designates a lucid audacity, midway between the cautious reluctance and inconsistent temerity. “” THE phronimosthe holder of the phronèsisis neither idealist nor deceit, however each at a time. I …


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