https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/At-the-Frontiers-of-Reality https://booksandideas.net/At-the-Frontiers-of-Reality 2018-06-07T07:00:00Z text/html en Christophe Al-Saleh Philosophy mankind language realism world animals https://booksandideas.net/Will-We-Soon-Be-Extinct https://booksandideas.net/Will-We-Soon-Be-Extinct 2017-05-29T07:00:00Z text/html en Matthieu Calame History environment mankind Florence Gould Foundation catastrophe animals <p>Paleontologists distinguish five periods of mass disappearance of animal species. Are we now entering the sixth period—that of human extinction? Either way, the question brings us back to the fragility of our life conditions. So just a word to the wise!</p> https://booksandideas.net/Point-trop-n-en-faut-3520 https://booksandideas.net/Point-trop-n-en-faut-3520 2016-10-20T07:00:00Z text/html en Céline Surprenant Philosophy mankind progress technics <p>That progress has negative effects is a well-worn idea. Yet, insufficient attention has been paid to the fact that they ensue from the excessiveness brought about by technological progress. Does that mean that there exists a scale favourable to the thriving of humans?</p>