The spotlight has just fallen on Qatar, the much-criticized host of the Football World Cup, because of its relative lack of respect for human rights. In fact, Qatar is sitting on a concept central to any democratic society: equality.
«We're not born women, we become them»: Simone de Beauvoir's famous phrase is often quoted today to justify the idea that we can decide our own sex. But Beauvoir was not thinking of putting biological reality into perspective.
Each month, we feature a column by one of the personalities who give us the pleasure of alternating between the two. Youtuber Ralph Müller, a doctoral student in literature at the University of Geneva, delivers his scathing analysis of a typical contemporary phenomenon.
To the contemporary reader, the anti-individualist stance of a liberal may seem strange. Not so: Tocqueville defines individualism as...
He has at least thirteen hats on his head, as many as the stars on his cantonal flag. At the very limited level of French-speaking Switzerland, he represents a (small) public voice. He proposes his way of seeing the world to anyone who will listen: through the Appel Citoyen movement he co-founded, the Foraus think tank he vice-chaired or the ethics laboratory he still co-directs. He also unpacks his values on 19h30 when he is invited to talk about fundamental freedom, on Le Temps when he conducts a questionnaire on sustainability, or on his blog when he analyzes current events while presenting the object of his research. And when you're a philosopher, «the object of your research» is vast. And diluted.
The wealthiest, like every minority, are threatened in their fundamental rights, in this case that of private property, which nothing can justify.
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