The ancient lights Among the countless legacies we have inherited from Greek and Roman civilizations, I would like to speak here about rationality. What is rationality? It is the primacy of reason in human interactions, that is, the necessity of discussing everything, of debating with one goal in mind: not to determine who is right, but to assess the soundness of our arguments, based on logical truths and factual truths.

During my Neoplatonic Academies in the spring of 2025, I had the joy of welcoming Lise, an 80-year-old Canadian, who gave me the immense gift of sharing her secrets with me. These secrets are a resolution to allow us to accept old age, this path that awaits us all (barring an early accident in life), which we so often fear, which our society does not want to hear about, since it flees the degradation of our body of flesh like a pestilential disease.