In «Ce que je veux sauver», Peggy Sastre defends the foundations of universalism against tribalism and relativism. The editorialist at Le Point believes that France is particularly vulnerable to these increasingly powerful trends.
Karl Popper understood that science and responsibility are inseparable. This is particularly true today.
Many studies of the reign of Frederick II, King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786, emphasize the authoritarian nature of the regime he led. To leave it at that, however, would be to overlook the liberal orientation of the political writings of this «enlightened despot».
Liberalism doesn't claim to say everything. It only answers the question of the political organization of society, which must be based on respect for negative freedoms. This in no way precludes a positive and complementary conception of freedom.
As a daughter of the Enlightenment, Germaine de Staël naturally embraced the liberal discourse. But she developed it by associating it with the idea of the nation, a reflection of the Romanticism of the time, which liberalism had come to tame with the concept of the nation-state.
The Austrian school of economics, which has recently re-emerged in the news, distinguishes itself from the dominant «neoclassical» theories, notably by redefining the value of a good as the importance that individuals attribute to it. Here's how it works.
Etienne de La Boétie wrote this 16th-century text between the ages of 16 and 18, and according to Pascal Couchepin, there's «something refreshing» about it. Every month, the former federal councillor shares a reading that struck a chord with him.
In a little-known text first published in 1705, Bernard Mandeville set out some of the central themes of what would become economic liberalism. Dive into «The Fable of the Bees».
This week, Regard Libre publishes a special report on the current state of liberalism, looking at the thinking of the great authors who have left their mark on this philosophical, political and economic movement.
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