Langage (3) Le problème métaphysique de la re...

Lecture et commentaire libre d'un extrait du texte de Simone Weil paru en 1942 et intitulé De l'attention (1942). Je vous partage, non pas un plan intégralement rédigé, mais un effort de problématisation tous azimuts, des débuts de définitions, des rappels méthodologiques utiles. ...  Afficher plus

Lecture commentée d'un texte de Simone Weil sur l'Etat et la guerre, extrait des Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l'oppression sociale (1934). Sont aussi cités : Marshall Sahlins, Age de Pierre, âge d'abondance, 1972. James C. Scott, Homo domesticus, une histoire pro ...  Afficher plus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how, in the Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) sought to define the difference between right and wrong by applying reason, looking at the intention behind actions rather than at consequences. He was inspired to find moral laws by natural phil ...  Afficher plus

We talk a bit more about David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), and add some parts of A Treatise of Human Nature (1739): sec. 3 "Of the Influencing Motives of the Will" within the third part of Book II, "Of the Passions," and the first two sections of ...  Afficher plus

Simone de Beauvoir was a pioneer for the second-wave feminist movement and one of the most famous philosophers to have lived. Strikingly, Beauvoir did not label herself as a philosopher, since she never attempted to provide an original treatise which aimed to fully encapsulate ...

Simone de Beauvoir was a pioneer for the second-wave feminist movement and one of the most famous philosophers to have lived. Strikingly, Beauvoir did not label herself as a philosopher, since she never attempted to provide an original treat ...