Interview of Bruno Pinchard by Nissim Sultan

Meeting Bruno Pinchard pursued two goals: to test the philosopher's thought in action and to gather the advice of a wise man.

In these fragments, we will first hear the broad outlines of a reflection on destiny through Dante, particularly drawing on the canto he devotes to Fortune. For Dante, the totality of phenomena cannot be explained by divine causality alone: in the sublunar world, Fortune — goddess and effect of God — comes to disrupt this "perfection" and complete it through the vicissitudes she brings about. In this way, a form of destiny unfolds in Dante's work: the face of the romantic encounter, which is transformed into love through death after Beatrice's disappearance.

The second fragment will return to the "scattering" that afflicts the beginning of this 21st century. Travel, a key to intelligence, deserves not to be sacrificed to the restrictions imposed by danger. And in the face of numerous contemporary challenges, if people once "talked a great deal and read little," the times now call for "reading a great deal and talking little" — while speech itself must be protected.