Sublime

It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

Shils considère avec envie la société britannique dans laquelle la « déférence » existe encore à l’égard des puissants et des savants. Le populisme, au contraire, est « méfiant envers les personnes “trop éduquées”75 », « intolérant envers les traditions et les limites institutionnelles76 » et repose sur des « classes agressives et pleines de ressen

For more moderate government supporters, who had voted for Bolsonaro mainly because he represented the best hope of finally defeating the threat from the political left, two ministers in particular provided reassurance. Moro, as we have already noted, remained the most popular minister in Bolsonaro’s cabinet, even though his first year in the justi

JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704) is the apostle of the Revolution of 1688, the most moderate and the most successful of all revolutions.

Moving on to the nineteenth century, John Stuart Mill, the English Utilitarian, lost faith in the idea of happiness as our ultimate human goal. What should replace it? What could be more valuable than happiness? His preference was for liberty, which might even come at the expense of our felicity. Instead of adhering to the pious, demanding Calvinis

It is rather more surprising to discover that he had a local education policy too: he made sure that the sons of the leading provincials were educated in the ‘liberal arts’ (literally ‘the intellectual pursuits suited to the free’) and in the Latin language.

Berkeley is a microcosm of the intrusion of corporations into education. Education, at least an education that challenges assumptions and teaches students to be self-critical, has been sacrificed in a Faustian bargain. Charles Schwartz, an emeritus professor of physics, drew up a chart that showed that in the last fourteen years, from 1993 to 2007,

Il n’en reste pas moins que l’attitude de Burke s’enracine profondément dans la philosophie de l’histoire de la tradition libérale qui, à partir de Montesquieu, a tendance à repérer les débuts de l’histoire de la liberté et du libre gouvernement représentatif chez les anciens Germains. Chez eux, comme Grotius nous l’a appris, l’institution de l’esc

‘One of the purposes of modern education is to destroy people’s imaginations’, he told me. He argues that while the Western model of education that has been adopted by India may have helped it to better fit into the global economy, it has been at the expense of many peoples’ connection to their culture, their community and their ecosystem. ‘Not onl