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Hello Doctor Philo, one question nagging me for some time, I wonder why the" icons ", as they are literary or mythological Juliet or Ophelia (eg Ariane) fascinate us all ? I ask this question because myself being passionate, I have some answers but they seem rather incomplete. Thanks for your reply

If I understand you expect from me complete response?

not easy on such a subject I'll try my luck anyway.

Let if you like the icon, as tradition gives it to us: this is a picture that shows us a scene or a religious figure.

So, give the icon to see something that does not occur naturally in our everyday world. That's the first point.

But at the same time, if the icon is religious (the will around Christ's head, the profusion gold and purple) is that it invites us to worship: it does not only see but also gives worship. That's the second point.

So if we want to generalize the meaning of the icon to not re secular world, we must say it is a symbolic representation of a behavior, feeling, activity, being, which must seem exceptional and at the same time admirable.

Such is the love of Ophelia and Juliet. Exceptional love that only death can stop coming (And Ariane: Ariane , my sister, what love injured / You died at the edges where you were left "said the Phaedra by Racine).

Now let us come to your question: why the fascination? Is it simply because it gives us to see something extraordinary, just like the stars in celebrity magazines?

course not.

I have the idea that the icons are fascinating not because they give meaning to something human, but because they are superhuman - And at the same time this one is superhuman desirable: it is a passing of ourselves that we invite icon.

Juliet, Ophelia, Ariane are heroes who invite us to heroism: Who would not love to die? We love them because we want to be like them.

So, the icon does not simply show an example. The icon is a call to holiness, heroism, courage, strength of character, etc ...

To my knowledge, only Bergson themed it with the call of the hero - the saint or the mystic - in Two Sources of Morality and Religion : to act morally, we can say Bergson

- or be forced by a system of bonds (closed morality).

- Or we can be prompted by the example of a man who goes beyond the ordinary limits of human conduct (moral open). It is an aspiration supra-rational, as opposed to the rules of prudence that govern obeying the rules. What applies to the corporation, also applies to religion.

Thus we have the icons like the Abbe Pierre, Mother Teresa, etc. ...