User:Bernard.Libbrecht

About me
Just a guy who is not afraid of reading a book.

Some influences
St. Augustine, Wendy Brown, Catherine Chalier, Ann Coulter(joking!), Anne Dufourmantelle, Louis Dupré, M.I. Finley, Masha Gessen, David Graeber, Stanley Hauerwas, Philip Jenkins, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Ian Morris, Iris Murdoch, Nietzsche, Camille Paglia, Paul Ricoeur, Jeremy Rifkin, Avital Ronell, Jonathan Sacks, Vaclav Smil, Peter Sloterdijk, Charles Taylor, Simone Weil, Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič, et al.

Life philosophy
Been raised as a puritan, and (of course) never being pure nor having seen any pure individuals around in those circles, I remain hooked on religion (but also seen through the lenses of philosophy). I started searching for something truthful, taking the risk of seeing what was hidden from me. Discovering, as it were, the beauty of neon cities as you can only see it by night, the real becomes beautiful in its very temorality and fragility. Truth seems to be found away from radical voices - I came closer to traditional liberalism, which is too suspiciously vilified by almost everyone who puts more energy in yelling loud than in trying to think clearly.