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The coronavirus crisis highlights the importance of the media in publicizing scientific debates. The production and dissemination of reliable information is essential. In this perspective, media ecology appears as a relevant theoretical framework. It is then necessary from a methodological point of view to scrutinize the quality of information. We propose criteria and quantified measures to move in that direction. An application is made on the polemic related to the use of chloroquine, a treatment recommended by Professor Raoult. Our case study covers a period from February 2020 to June 2020. The articles published online by four newspapers of record, either French or Swiss, are analyzed. The results are, undoubtedly, exploratory and should be interpreted with caution. However, we note significant differences between the four media. We also wonder about the major risks of ideologizing scientific debates.
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In the aftermath of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there is a predicted (and emerging) increase in experiences of mental illness. This phenomenon has been described as “the next pandemic”, suggesting that the concepts used to understand and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic are being transferred to conceptualize mental illness. The COVID-19 pandemic was, and continues to be, framed in public media using military metaphors, which can potentially migrate to conceptualizations of mental illness along with pandemic rhetoric. Given that metaphors shape what is considered justifiable action, and how we understand justice, I argue we have a moral responsibility to interrogate who benefits and who is harmed by the language and underlying conceptualizations this rhetoric legitimates. By exploring how military metaphors have been used in the context of COVID-19, I argue that this rhetoric has been used to justify ongoing harm to marginalized groups while further entrenching established systems of power. Given this history, I present what it may look like were military metaphors used to conceptualize a “mental illness pandemic”, what actions this might legitimate and render inconceivable, and who is likely to benefit and be harmed by such rhetorically justified actions.
Keywords: metaphors, war, military, COVID-19, mental illness, justice, métaphores, guerre, militaire, COVID-19, maladie mentale, justice
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In management, compassion is cumbersome and ambivalent : it is a behavioral imperative, an ethical rule, but it can also be used in the service of effective management. It can also be a flourishing activity, through various forms of “social business”. Its development reflects both the rise in the consideration of feelings in management and the development of compassionate concern in contemporary societies. But as an imperative addressed to managers, compassion establishes an indirect criticism of the world of management : if empathy must be demanded with as much vigor, it is because alas it is not obvious in the universe work. Compassion is therefore cumbersome, but it is perhaps a lesser evil in the face of modern working conditions.
Keywords: Compassion en gestion, auto-compassion, management compassionnel, coaching, Compassion in management, Compassionate Management, Coaching, Self Compassion, Compasión en gestión empresarial, auto-compasión, gerenciamiento compasivo, coaching
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In this paper, I focus on the specific philosophical contribution of Jean-Paul Sartre's What is Literature ? (1948), in the context of the existentialist meditation of this period (Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty). I first establish how Sartre underpins the concept of freedom, by probing its epistemic aspect of testimony and its practical aspect of consciousness-raising, as well as its intrinsic dimensions of negativity and construction. Furthermore, I prove that such a conceptual improvement entails a fresh meditation by Sartre on the motive “making History”. Such meditation corresponds to a drastic modification of the precedence and order of what Sartre describes as “the cardinal categories of human reality”, to the detriment of the categories of being and having, and in favor of the category of making. I demonstrate that there is a shift from Being and Nothingness. I conclude by considering the significance of such a conceptual improvement of freedom, such a meditation of history, and such a categorial reshuffle, when it comes to the questions of the practical meaning of literature, of its appropriate form, and of its possible totalization.