El honor de los filósofos

From Aristotle's nephew, Calisthenes of Olinto, to the French philosopher Albert Lautman, passing through Hypatia, Pliny the Elder, Michael Servetus, Descartes, Simone Weil, Spinoza, Olympe de Gouges, Condorcet, Leibniz and many others, the history of philosophy it is full of names of people who maintained integrity in circumstances that made it extremely difficult to remain faithful to the demands of thought: people who rejected religious, political, or scientific claims that failed the test of fair judgment, whatever the weight of authority. individual or institutional that supported them. The biographies of those who were faithful to reason in various contexts despite the condemnation of their contemporaries illustrate the scope of the radical bet in favor of thought throughout history and constitute, in sum, an incomparable living lesson in morals.