Roger-Pol Droit defends the daily use of philosophy

In an interview with William Bourton, The French thinker Roger-Pol Droit ponders the place of philosophy in everyday life. "Of course it can help one to live, but never by decreeing rules to follow like monastic rules or the precepts of a sect! To think about what we are, what the world is, or power, or indeed, good, bad, justice, freedom and death, this all has a bearing on how we lead one's existence! In antiquity, to adopt a philosophy -becoming a stoic, an epicurean, a cynic, a sceptic ... -, was also to adopt a way of life, and even a choice of clothes and eating habits. All of this is behind us now, but we have rediscovered that to think about one's existence is not to cut one's self off from daily life, from concrete action and decisions. Socrates already said so: 'A life unexamined is not worth living'".

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