Luc Ferry, "The wisdom of the myths", Garzanti 2010.
Calypso asks Ulysses to stay forever with her. In return, offers him immortality and eternal youth. Odysseus refuses. From pp. 14 and 15:
"The purpose of human existence is not, then they will think as Christians, to obtain by any means, even the most moral and most difficult to accept, our eternal salvation, to reach immortality, because a life mortal, made is far superior to a life immortal failed! In other words, Odysseus convinced that life is "relocated" away from home, without harmony, outside its natural place on the edge of the world, is worse than death itself.
On reflection, indirectly, as drafted, the definition of the good life, existence made and you start to see the philosophical dimension of mythology: the same way as Ulysses, to be preferred by a deadly condition in accordance with the cosmic order, rather than an immortal life in the grip of what the Greeks call hubris , the excess, that takes us away from reconciliation with the world. We should live soberly, accept death, in ac
agreement with what we really are and what lies outside us, in harmony with our family and with the universe. (...)
It 's a life lesson that breaks with the discourse of religious monotheistic past and future, a message that philosophy should only, so to speak, translate, because to develop in its own way doctrines of salvation without God, the good life for us mere mortals. "
Calypso asks Ulysses to stay forever with her. In return, offers him immortality and eternal youth. Odysseus refuses. From pp. 14 and 15:
"The purpose of human existence is not, then they will think as Christians, to obtain by any means, even the most moral and most difficult to accept, our eternal salvation, to reach immortality, because a life mortal, made is far superior to a life immortal failed! In other words, Odysseus convinced that life is "relocated" away from home, without harmony, outside its natural place on the edge of the world, is worse than death itself.
On reflection, indirectly, as drafted, the definition of the good life, existence made and you start to see the philosophical dimension of mythology: the same way as Ulysses, to be preferred by a deadly condition in accordance with the cosmic order, rather than an immortal life in the grip of what the Greeks call hubris , the excess, that takes us away from reconciliation with the world. We should live soberly, accept death, in ac
agreement with what we really are and what lies outside us, in harmony with our family and with the universe. (...) It 's a life lesson that breaks with the discourse of religious monotheistic past and future, a message that philosophy should only, so to speak, translate, because to develop in its own way doctrines of salvation without God, the good life for us mere mortals. "
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