El placer de vivir

Synopsis of El placer de vivir

In these pages, the reader will find a secular morality, a spirituality without God, a conception of non-partisan and truly active citizenship, and a humanism applied to love, death, family, employment, racism, and capitalism. 'The pleasure of living', by André Comte-Sponville, brings together 101 short articles, published in various media over twenty years, which allow the main axes of his thought to be brought closer to all audiences. This book is the personal itinerary of a thinker who offers us, as they come to mind, the thoughts that the world in which he lives inspires him. The sober and clear style of these texts shuns any technicality and its reading provides an authentic pleasure. Comte-Sponville manages to make the reader penetrate the secrets of everyday life, putting within his reach the fundamental questions of philosophy.