● essays · 22 July 2026

First essay — Beyond the Hedgehog's Dilemma

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The Library opens its doors with a first essay: Beyond the Hedgehog’s Dilemma — where Schopenhauer’s porcupine parable is overturned three times, all the way to a theory of the Summer Man and a whole method held in a few words a grandmother knew before all the philosophers.

The essay reads in seven minutes, can be listened to, downloaded as a PDF — and carries three honest reviews written by the major AI models, with the prompt published. They were not kind everywhere; that is the point.

# philosophie# amour# schopenhauer

— Oliver Herbelin — published at Helaia