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(2011) Icarus' second Chance, Dordrecht, Springer.

Icarus

Jacques Arnould

pp. 31-42

When it came to me to chair the first meetings of the group appointed by Gérard Brachet to explore field of space ethics within CNES, I had to overcome the surprise and concerns of my colleagues at having to address a philosophical subject for which their engineering training and tasks had not prepared them. To do that, I turned to one of the oldest methods used by our ancestors to ask questions about the meaning of life and the task of being human: mythological narrative. The narrative of Icarus sprung to mind immediately.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-0712-6_3

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Arnould, J. (2011). Icarus, in Icarus' second Chance, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 31-42.

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