Work: a disastrous dogma for Paul Lafargue
→ Best-of articles on WORK Paul Lafargue was a French socialist of the late 19th century, as well as Karl Marx’s son-in-law. His 1880 essay The Right to Laziness: The …
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Difference between science and technology
What are the differences between these two concepts that are on the one hand science and on the other hand technology? To answer this question, it is first important to …
Correction – Democratic state – Baruch Spinoza
This question notably fell on the philosophy test of the 2015 baccalaureate. “In a democratic state, absurd orders are hardly to be feared, for it is almost impossible for the …
Pythagoras and Euclid the founders of demonstration
Pythagoras (560 – 480 BC) founded a school organized as a sect. He plays a major role in the history of science. The numbers in his school were represented in the …
Montaigne and medicine
Montaigne is skeptical about medicine. He himself was ill, he suffered from kidney stones from 1577 onwards. In the Essays, Montaigne in CHAPTER XXXVII, entitled “Of the resemblance of children to …
Natural law and positive law
Is the law just? What is natural law? What is positive law? Which authors defend which theses? Here are some tracks to understand how justice “justifies” the law: quotations from …