In his essay on laughter, published by Editions de l'Observatoire, the former director of «Charlie Hebdo» and France Inter explores what this human art tells us about the value of astonishment. For further reading.
Donald Trump supporters and wokes seem like sworn enemies. Yet their respective attitudes to debate, institutions and society reveal striking similarities.
As debate becomes polarized and personal, Antoine Vuille defends the importance of rigorous argumentation. The philosopher invites us to avoid the vices that weaken the exchange of ideas in a democracy, not without avoiding a few vexing questions.
Politically correct means claiming to be right, but without opening up to debate, while politically incorrect means opening up to debate, but without taking reason into account. Two options to be rejected, because debate and reason go hand in hand.
A subtle tradition dating back to the Scottish Enlightenment, and in particular to David Hume, one of its leading exponents, makes the aesthetic evaluation of a thing a personal feeling, but one caused by properties actually possessed by that thing.
The risk-taking that characterizes entrepreneurship enables human beings to exercise their freedom and responsibility to the full. This form of personal fulfillment, which is conducive to social fulfillment, has a special value.
Dans «Ce que je veux sauver», Peggy Sastre défend les fondements de l’universalisme à opposer au tribalisme et au relativisme. L’éditorialiste au Point juge la France particulièrement vulnérable face à ces courants qui gagnent en puissance.
To overestimate the power of the media is to underestimate the other reasons why people have ideas. It's not journalists who dictate the debate agenda, but a complex dynamic between senders and receivers.
Membre de l’Académie française, l’auteur de «L’identité malheureuse» est jugé «nauséabond» par ses adversaires. Son œuvre s’inscrit pourtant dans une lignée humaniste, comme il l’appuie dans cet entretien où il plaide pour le sens de l’admiration et de la gratitude.
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