The secret of the voting booth in France
By the law of July 29, 1913, the elector is bound to the secrecy of the vote. Thus, secrecy remains a constituent of the French democracy, at the time of …
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Privacy and capitalism
That’s the theory Tim Wu advocates in a 2019 New York Times article. For him, privacy in the old days was the same as being rich. Peasants, slaves and serfs …
Summary of Book 1 of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract
In Book I of the In the Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau starts by defining his project. It is a question of finding a rule of administration which is legitimate and …
Voltaire – Publicity and rage of fanaticism
For the Enlightenment, of which Voltaire was a part, publicity – that is, making something public, and absolutely not the contemporary sense of promoting an object or a service – is an essential attribute …
Machiavelli – The Prince must know how to feign and conceal
The Arcana imperii: these secrets of the empires are mercilessly put in the scene in the Tartuffe of Molière. The duplicity, the hypocrisy, is the springs used for this play. …