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We would search in vain for a reflection on war destined to trigger a subversive action, individual at first, and possibly collective later, capable of imagining and pursuing, as its objective, the demining of the lands of free reasoning into which no one (almost no one) dares to enter any more.
Jürgen Wertheimer's article in today's NZZ, perfectly in tune with the pro-war line of the newspaper he writes for, sounds like an epitaph to the tragic absence, or even worse, acquiescence, of intellectuals to the conflict in Ukraine. They were only able, and from the outset, to adhere to the official version of the ongoing war.
Silent and adequate.
Jürgen Wertheimer writes, in relation to Immanuel Kant's theses delivered in his Zum ewigen Frieden:
«It cannot be ruled out that Kant himself fell victim to the suggestive force of his system. For us, enriched by the experiences and disappointments of two successive centuries, it is all the more reason to contemplate with scepticism the dream of the salvation of the world derived from the spirit of philosophy».
Ah!
To whom should we surrender ourselves, then?
To the arms manufacturers? To their merchants? To those who buy them? To those who use them?
No!
To our brain we must surrender. And to the courage to use it. To dare to use it.
(gianluca grossi)