Frases de Paul Veyne

Paul Veyne, nacido el 13 de junio de 1930, en Aix-en-Provence, es un arqueólogo e historiador francés, especialista en Roma Antigua. Fue alumno de la Escuela Normal Superior, y miembro de la Escuela Francesa de Roma , en la actualidad es profesor honorario del Colegio de Francia, tras años de docencia en esta institución superior de París. Wikipedia

✵ 13. junio 1930

Paul Veyne: Frases en inglés

“The course of history does not include eternal problems, problems of essences or of dialectics; it only offers valorizations that differ from one culture to another and even from one individual to another. … What is opposed to time as well as eternity is our own valorization of the present. What does it matter that time passes and that its frontier wipes out our valorizations? No warrior has been shaken in his patriotism by the idea that, had he been born on the other side of the border, his heart would have beaten for the other side.”

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Paul Veyne

"The Final Foucault and His Ethics," Critical Inquiry, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Autumn, 1993)