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Patrick Henriet

Figures of the past, quarrels of the present

The show "Murmures dans la cité" (Whispers in the City) is being criticized for its funding and its choice of religious figures, deemed incompatible with secularism by a group of heritage professionals. Patrick Henriet explains that the chosen saints played a major role in the Bourbonnais region: their presence is part of a historical, not an ideological, approach.

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Secularism: understanding its origins and meaning

Secularism? A difficult term to understand. So we asked Catherine Kintzler to enlighten us on the notion of secularism. Catherine Kintzler is a French philosopher, specialist in aesthetics and secularism. Agrégée in philosophy, doctor of state

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Common Places (Collective)

Political ecology versus environmentalism

Sandrine Rousseau's sallies regularly provoke disbelief, consternation or hilarity, to the point that we were delighted to see the insipid Yannick Jadot promoted to embody "government" ecology - that is to say, powerless. But we should take seriously the power of the so-called "woke" movement in the environmental movement: countering these delusional speeches requires, above all, understanding how we got here.

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Common Places (Collective)

Mapping anti-Enlightenment movements

This mapping attempts to organize in a coherent manner the major ideological currents which oppose modernity on its two principles, autonomy (a common world subject to criticism) and sovereignty (a democratic society).

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Martine Cerf

Freedom of conscience and religious freedom

Texts such as the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe recognise freedom of thought, conscience and religion as fundamental rights. However, over time there has been a semantic shift that has led to these rights being restricted or neglected.

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