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The philosophers of the Enlightenment called into question values related to politics and religion. Within an aristocratic and sometimes despotic world, they advocated for freedom and equality. In doing so, they contributed to laying the political and moral foundations of contemporary Western societies. To what extent are we inclined to question these foundations? Let’s examine…
That humans spontaneously idealize and that their idealizations shape them may seem obvious, but the obviousness vanishes when one considers the extent of their knowledge and achievements, which have literally transformed the Earth, not just on the surface. How to distinguish imagination from reality when the former models the latter? The answer to this question…
While the end of the 20th century, after the collapse of the USSR, might have raise hopes for a lasting ebb of conflicts and tensions between states,1 the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East remind us that the trend can be reversed. On the domestic political scenes, oppositions remain systematic outside of national…
The question of choice is historically and philosophically entangled with that of freedom, particularly through the idea of free will.1 However, it does not seem so obvious to intimately associate choice and freedom when we ask ourselves, for instance: how many options must we have to consider ourselves free? If we are between a rock…