To criticize the elites is not to reject them, but rather to believe in their mission. Provided we don't fall into systematic opposition.
Gilles Kepel's erudition is unquestionable. Nor have his pedagogical skills or the freedom of his views, as the hundred or so people who came to listen to the Emeritus University Professor on May 21 at a conference-debate in Lausanne organized by the Cercle démocratique «Le Regard Libre.
As the republican mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard has made social skills a political cause. His reflections, set out in his book «Refaire communauté», and his actions on the ground show what role the State can play in this issue, which is first and foremost a matter of education.
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.
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