In Fragment 94, Blaise Pascal reflects on the relationship between justice and strength. Here are successive quotations from the original text, accompanied by a literal commentary on the fragment, particularly instructive …
To understand the project of a popular history of the United States, intended by Howard Zinn’s historian, go here a popular history of American society after 1945. This engaged history …
May 68 was one of the most important events of the current French Republic. Why was May 68 so decisive in the evolution of society? This course on May 68 …
Starting from the principle that “It is not possible […] for a man to abdicate his thought and submit it absolutely to that of others”, Baruch Spinoza introduces the idea …
The philosopher king is a concept that comes to us from Plato. In the Republic, book V, 473d, Plato insists that philosophy and kingship must coincide. Otherwise, the kingdom will …
In Arts de gouverner. From the medieval “regimen” to the concept of government, Michel Senellart sees Machiavelli as the first author to have theorized the confrontation between the people and …
