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The tyranny of the majority? Really?
Our theme involves various issues where we are led to use the terms "culture", "minority", "majority" and "law".
March 16, 2023
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“Tyranny of the Majority” and “Minority Rights”: Tocqueville’s Modernity
Our theme involves various issues where we are led to use the terms "culture", "minority", "majority" and "law".
March 12, 2023
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Educating the people, the heart of the secular and republican struggle
[by Charles Coutel] The French republican and revolutionary tradition constantly links the demand for social justice and the reduction of economic inequalities to the necessity
December 24, 2021
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Condorcet and the genesis of the 1905 law
[by Charles Coutel, this text takes up and updates a version published in L'enseignement philosophique, 56th year, no 4.] Absolutely separated from the political establishment of society, a
September 3, 2021
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On the expression "minority rights"
[by Charles Coutel] Many words are confused today because they are overused: culture, civilization, minority, majority and law. Each of these terms deserves to be redefined. The
July 23, 2021
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Inheriting the Enlightenment? What is humanist and universalist culture?
[by Charles Coutel] How can we express our debt to the Enlightenment without falling into anachronism that caricatures or hagiography that freezes? How can we admire them without
July 2, 2021
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For diversity: the universalist message of the Enlightenment
[by Charles Coutel] Despite the interruptions due to the health crisis, our work has attempted to show, particularly within the Observatory of Decolonialism, the
June 9, 2021
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Proposals around the republican principle of secularism
[by Charles Coutel] The transmission of the principle of secularism to future generations is essential; this difficult question will not fail to be at the center of
April 23, 2021
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On so-called intersectional feminist student associations
[By Charles Coutel] For less than three years now, there have been flourishing in universities, often grafted onto feminist collectives or associations like Nous Toutes,
March 26, 2021
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Protecting the children of the Republic's school against any ideological manipulation
It is time to protect the children of the school of the Republic from intersectional ideology, identity and racial manipulations and decolonial pedagogy,
March 13, 2021