secularism
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Secularism: understanding its origins and meaning

Secularism? A difficult term to understand. So we asked Catherine Kintzler to enlighten us on the notion of secularism. Catherine Kintzler is a French philosopher, specialist in aesthetics and secularism. Agrégée in philosophy, doctor of state

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Common Places (Collective)

Political ecology versus environmentalism

Sandrine Rousseau's sallies regularly provoke disbelief, consternation or hilarity, to the point that we were delighted to see the insipid Yannick Jadot promoted to embody "government" ecology - that is to say, powerless. But we should take seriously the power of the so-called "woke" movement in the environmental movement: countering these delusional speeches requires, above all, understanding how we got here.

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Common Places (Collective)

Mapping anti-Enlightenment movements

This mapping attempts to organize in a coherent manner the major ideological currents which oppose modernity on its two principles, autonomy (a common world subject to criticism) and sovereignty (a democratic society).

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Martine Cerf

Freedom of conscience and religious freedom

Texts such as the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe recognise freedom of thought, conscience and religion as fundamental rights. However, over time there has been a semantic shift that has led to these rights being restricted or neglected.

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Francois Rastier

Secularism is still Voltaire's fault

In December 2022, Ifop reported that 56% of public secondary school teachers said they had already self-censored their teaching, to avoid any incident triggered in the name of religious or philosophical beliefs.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Can you imagine restricting Dominique Schnapper?

Article one of the 1958 Constitution explains that the Republic is indivisible, secular, democratic and social. Secularism is therefore one of those principles that require, above all, a legal organization. Founded on the principle of separation (public sphere, private sphere) which guarantees freedom of conscience and worship, it is weakened today by the conjunction of politics and religion under the auspices of a galloping wokism that agrees with people like Norman Ajari in declaring that it is at once an "apartheid" measure, or even "Islamophobic, discriminatory, unjust and far-right."

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