The “I” : philosophical analysis
Immanuel Kant inAnthropology from a pragmatic point of view, in 1789, makes the human person someone superior to other living beings, because he can think the “I”. To possess the …
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Do you have to like work?
As a reader of the Pages of Academics in Politics (thanks to him), the France Culture program Culture, Les nouveaux chemins de la connaissance, devotes a week to the baccalaureate …
Science according to Galileo
Throughout his life, Galileo developed a reflection on science that is particularly interesting for those interested in the history of ideas related to science. Short biography of Galileo Galileo was …
Survivors at the end of the world
December 21st was the 183rd end of the world in history. This is the number of end of the world events that Pierre Baron counted for Historia. Called “End of …
The heart of the Ventre de Paris – Emile Zola
Le Ventre de Paris, published in 1873, offers abundant descriptions of the city of Paris. Here is one, found in chapter 1: “Now he could hear the long roll that started from …
Human justice and the death penalty
Excerpt from the poem The Scaffold by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) The star dropped its tear of light. Its ray, like a dart which strikes and rebounds, Struck the iron with …