Étiquette : Veda
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Indra and Social Movements
There is in the myth of Indra something that resonates with particular force in our era of collective mobilisations, Arab springs, climate movements, social revolts that surge everywhere on the planet with a suddenness and intensity that surprise even their actors: the thunderbolt. The Vajra of Indra does not strike slowly, does not negotiate, does…
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La Transmission Orale et l’Éducation Numérique
Il y a un moment particulier dans l’histoire de l’éducation humaine qui mérite d’être examiné attentivement, parce qu’il dit quelque chose de fondamental sur ce que nous sommes en train de perdre et ce que nous croyons gagner : le moment où une civilisation décide de confier son savoir à un support externe plutôt qu’à…
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Oral Transmission and Digital Education
There is a particular moment in the history of human education that deserves careful examination, because it says something fundamental about what we are in the process of losing and what we believe we are gaining: the moment when a civilisation decides to entrust its knowledge to an external support rather than to living human…
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Aditi and the Crisis of Contemporary Feminism
There is in the Vedic pantheon a figure that might at first glance seem foreign to contemporary feminist debate, and that is yet perhaps the most radical of all in what it says about the nature of the feminine and about the relationship between the masculine and the feminine in the very structure of the…
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Aditi et la Crise du Féminisme Contemporain
Il y a dans le panthéon védique une figure qui pourrait sembler à première vue étrangère au débat féministe contemporain, et qui est pourtant peut-être la plus radicale de toutes dans ce qu’elle dit sur la nature du féminin et sur la relation entre le masculin et le féminin dans la structure même du cosmos…
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Indra and Direct Democracy
There is in the Rig Veda an image of Indra that stands in contrast to his usual representation as a warrior god armed with the thunderbolt: that of the chief chosen by his community. A passage in the tenth mandala says simply: « They chose him as a people chooses its king. » This sentence, brief and…
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La Dakshina et le Revenu Universel
Nous avons examiné la dakshina dans un article précédent sous l’angle de l’économie du don face à l’économie de l’extraction. Mais la dakshina mérite d’être revisitée sous un angle plus précis et plus contemporain, celui du revenu universel, ce débat qui agite les économistes, les philosophes et les décideurs politiques depuis plusieurs décennies et qui…
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Dakshina and Universal Basic Income
We examined dakshina in a previous article from the angle of the gift economy versus the extraction economy. But dakshina deserves to be revisited from a more precise and more contemporary angle, that of universal basic income, the debate that has been stirring economists, philosophers and policy makers for several decades and that has become…
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The Sacred Cow and Lab-Grown Meat
A few years ago, the first news of lab-grown meat provoked reactions ranging from technological enthusiasm to visceral repulsion, passing through philosophical perplexity. Muscle stem cells were taken from a cow, made to proliferate in a bioreactor, and meat was obtained without killing the animal, without methane emissions, without antibiotics, without the industrial farming conditions…
Le Rig Veda 