Aristotle

or

Plato

should not have expected

back in the 4th century BC to be part of the

mainstream

of the 21st century, but those paths are always inscrutable.

2,500 years later, classical philosophy is back in fashion and

Merlí

and its sequel

Sapere Aude

, which opens its second season on Movistar this Friday,

are very much to blame

.

"It is not a documentary or a series of popularization, but it has its two or three minutes per chapter of philosophy lesson and it is what sustains the whole plot."

He is

Héctor Lozano

, creator and scriptwriter of a series that made the leap from TV3 to the national arena and has now continued with its continuation.

But how does a series about a high school Philosophy professor and his gifted student - now a university student - follow in his footsteps sustain his reasoning?

With a couple of philosophical advisers:

Marc Illa

and

Aleix Solé

.

"The summary is that Héctor tells us where the plots are going and then Aleix and I, with our philosophical references, try to provide content to complement the series' narrative," explains Marc Illa, a researcher at the

University of Barcelona

.

He was a classmate of the creator of

Merlí

in the first year of the Philosophy career and a year and a half ago he received a call to offer him to be the replacement for

Nemrod Carrasco

, a former consultant on Catalan fiction.

«Héctor understood that the previous advisor had already given him everything he needed and offered me to take this advice.

He told me that he had another person with a way of understanding this complementary to mine.

It was Aleix Solé.

María Pujal, professor of Philosophy in the series, during the recordingMovistar

«I was in the office two years ago and a person I did not know appeared with a script of mathematical logic.

It was

Joan Negrié

, the actor who plays the logic teacher, who didn't understand anything.

He asked me to explain four basic things, I helped him and from there they passed me the script, made some recommendations and asked me to go to the filming of the first season.

There I met Héctor, we talked, we got on well and he offered me advice, ”says this UB doctoral student.

Once advisors are elected, the chicken and egg dilemma.

What comes first?

¿

The script of the chapter or author

that will support the philosophical debate?

"The first thing absolutely is to write the script, then the philosopher, the current or the ethical theme is chosen, the other way around it would be impossible," says Héctor Lozano.

«It is a kind of virtuous struggle.

We overwhelm them with content because our minds are disturbed by the academy and Héctor adapts it to the script.

It is an alchemy with dense academic content and entertainment », Aleix Solé completes.

"

Dostoevsky

explains it

very well with pure ideas, which are all in our heads, and core

ideas that are linked to the experience.

Talking about sincerity at a meal with friends is not the same as seeing it when someone you love is told about terminal cancer, for example ", explains Marc Illa, who adds that at the beginning of the series" more philosophical currents were touched "while now they resort to "specific problems related to the world of philosophy ... Starting from the theme, it is looking for an author who can treat it and then apply it to reality, that process is more complex."

One of Merlí's scenes, during filming

Thus

Plato

,

Kant

,

Aristotle

,

Spinoza

or

Nietzsche

parade through the screen in

Sapere Aude

.

"Héctor has opened the lamp of genius with a very brave gesture for the world of philosophy because he has shown that a narrative can be enriched with philosophical content and go deep without being boring", Solé begins.

"The first approach to philosophy must be pleasant, easy, because otherwise it becomes a tostón that generates more negative than positive things," concludes Illa.

And, at the end of the process, the actors.

«It is an individual work of each one, there are people who study the scene like any other subject, but I am curious, I am interested in the subject and I read works by authors that we are going to touch.

It shows when you understand what you stand for or just say the text, "concludes

Carlos Cuevas

, protagonist of the series.

The

Sapere Aude

, as the title states well.

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