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François Prouteau

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  • Good Anthropocene
    In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf (eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene, Springer. pp. 359-363. 2023.
    Based on the scientific evidence of the alarming context of changing living conditions on Earth, this article analyses how the Anthropocene can be claimed to be good or bad. We explore the extent to which the use of the oxymoron ‘good Anthropocene’ is relevant or not for moving towards a positive future.
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    Plasticity
    In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf (eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene, Springer. pp. 793-797. 2023.
    Sciences, through their current progress, show that the plasticity of life is so important in human beings that it can be considered as a constitutive characteristic of their identity. The robustness-vulnerability dynamic at the core of this plasticity, particularly developed in human beings and inherent to their complexity, calls for an ethical reflection on the use of techno-sciences.
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    Courage
    In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf (eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene, Springer. pp. 1243-1247. 2023.
    This article highlights the debate concerning courage in politics, originating in Athens as the theme of parrhēsia, i.e., truth in democracy, and how the discourse is both enabled and constantly threatened. How does this debate affect the “drama of truth”, in the Anthropocene? From ancient Greece to the present day, philosophical discourse has been seated in necessary interaction between the access to the truth sought after by sciences, political powers and structures, and the formation of êthop…Read more
    Courage