Literature and philosophy
What does the snake mean in the Little Prince
The figure who speaks in riddles divides readers. The snake is not the villain of the story: it is death as a bridge, the passage back to the essential.
Literature and philosophy
The 7 planets and the 7 deadly sins
Many readers associate the Little Prince's planets with the seven deadly sins. Where the parallel works, where it breaks and what it reveals.
Literature and philosophy
Alienation in The Little Prince
The vain man and the drunk are two portraits of alienation: living from the eyes of others and running away from oneself. How the work anticipates the modern mirror prison.
Literature and philosophy
The rose and the fox: love and friendship in The Little Prince
The rose is love with all its contradictions; the fox, friendship as a choice. The two columns of the spiritual crossing of the Little Prince.
Literature and philosophy
The essential is invisible to the eye: what does it mean
The most quoted phrase in the work is not a beautiful verse, it is the key that opens the entire book. What it means to see with the heart.
Literature and philosophy
The Little Prince: summary and analysis
A tale that seems childish and is, in fact, a treatise on the soul: the crossing of the seven planets towards the essential that can only be seen with the heart.
Literature and philosophy
To tame: what it means in The Little Prince
"To tame means to establish ties." The lesson of the fox and the most powerful ethical statement in the work: we are responsible for what we tame.
Literature and philosophy
The 7 planets of the Little Prince and what they mean
Each planet visited by the Little Prince contains a vice of the adult soul. A map of the work's logic, from the king to planet Earth.
Literature and philosophy
Who was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The French aviator who transformed the experience of flight and the desert into one of the most read works in the world. Who was the author of the Little Prince?
Greek philosophy
Act and Potency, in Aristotle
How Aristotle explains change without denying that something remains, and how Saint Thomas Aquinas takes the idea to Christian theology.
Greek philosophy
Heraclitus x Parmenides: does Being change or is it immobile?
The oldest debate in Western philosophy, between the philosopher of flow and the philosopher of eternal and immobile Being.
Greek philosophy
What is Aristotle's Hexis
Virtue is not a state that is possessed once, it is a character forged by repeated practice, day after day.
Greek philosophy
What is Aristotle's Hylemorphism?
Aristotle's answer to how change is possible without destroying the identity of things.
Greek philosophy
What is Panta Rhei
Heraclitus' Greek expression for "everything flows", and because this constant change has an order, it is not chaos.
Greek philosophy
What does "no one enters the same river twice" mean?
Heraclitus's most famous fragment, and how his disciple Cratylus took it even further.
Greek philosophy
Heraclitus: No One Enters the Same River Twice
From the fragment of the river to the confrontation with Parmenides, and from change as chaos to change as growth, with Aristotle and Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Greek philosophy
Who was Heraclitus of Ephesus?
The "Obscure" philosopher who refused politics and wrote deliberately in a difficult way, and who defended fire as the principle of everything.
Philosophy and psychology
The Triple Dimension of the Human Being
Body, psyche and spirit, and why it is always the spirit that decides, even when the body and mind can no longer take it.
Philosophy and psychology
What is Self-Transcendence
The most fascinating secret in Frankl's map, man only realizes himself when he leaves himself.
Philosophy and psychology
Existential Tension: Why It Is Not Neurosis
Restlessness is not an illness, it is a vital force, a bow that needs to be tensioned to shoot the arrow of achievement.
Philosophy and psychology
The Three Psychological Phases in Concentration Camps
Shock, apathy and the difficult return to freedom, the three phases that Viktor Frankl observed in concentration camp prisoners.
Etymology and culture
Where does the word sadism come from?
The word comes from the name of the Marquis de Sade and became, a century later, a term in clinical psychopathology.
Philosophy and psychology
Freud, Adler and Frankl: pleasure, power or meaning?
The three Viennese schools of psychotherapy, each with a different answer to what moves human beings.
Philosophy and psychology
What is Logotherapy
The third Viennese school of psychotherapy, created by Viktor Frankl from the Greek word logos, meaning.
Philosophy and psychology
What is Noogenesis
Frankl's term for disorders that arise not from unconscious conflict but from meaninglessness.
Philosophy and psychology
What is Clinical Sadism
A personality disorder, not a figure of speech, is what Viktor Frankl saw in certain concentration camp guards.
Philosophy and psychology
The Four Types of Lies
From the harmless social lie to the ontological lie, which denies who you really are.
Philosophy and psychology
Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
How a psychiatrist survived four Nazi concentration camps and discovered, in the midst of horror, that the true engine of the soul is meaning.
Philosophy
The Dichotomy of Control, by Epictetus
Stoic Epictetus' rule of thumb for getting through any affliction without falling apart, separating what depends on you from what doesn't.
Philosophy
What is Stoicism
The school founded in a portico in Athens that taught half the world how to go through pain without collapsing, from Zeno of Citius to Marcus Aurelius.