I personally would speak more clearly of Jesus' being risen from the dead and being God's Son. Who doesn't may defend "Christian civilization," but can't honestly claim to be a Christian. A Muslim is a person who believes that the Koran is God's word dictated to Muhammad, who is "the beautiful example," so that his life has the value of an model. All Muslims pray in the same direction and know that the pilgrimage must lead them to Mecca, not to Valparaiso. Who doesn't may, say, praise the achievements of medieval Islam or feel oneself a member of the Nation (umma), but can't honestly claim to be a Muslim. A Jew feels at the very least a belonging to a people and a history, to a Law, etc. You wrote a famous book on Aristotle and the question of the world, but also an essay on Baudelaire, Image vagabonde. Essai sur l'imaginaire baudelairien. Like an artist, Aristotle says that astonishment is a condition for the beginning of philosophy. What continues to astonish you? Being able to feel wonder and awe is a precious gift. I admired it for instance in Michel Henry, whom I met, by the way, in Quebec. This elderly man (he was as old as I am now...) was still able of wonder in front of a landscape. There are so many people, even among the young, who are blas about everything... As for me, I already mentioned some problems: How is it that Europe began, in