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Philosophy conference: Democracy put to the test of discussion

May 14 / 17 h 00 min - 19 h 00 min

Free

Organized by the Langages, Littératures, Sociétés Etudes Transfrontalières et Internationales (LLSETI) and the Association des professeurs de philosophie de l'enseignement public, the series of philosophical conferences entitled "Pour une Ethique de la discussion, enjeux démocratiques" (For an ethics of discussion, democratic issues) continues this Wednesday, May 14 at 5pm, with the theme " La démocratie à l'épreuve de la discussion" (Democracy to the test of discussion). This lecture will take place in room 3, at the presidency of theuniversité Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB), in Chambéry. It is open to all, without registration.

About the conference

The aim of the session, once all the fields have been covered, would be to resume the discussion on the theme of democracy put to the test of discussion.

This conference will be hosted by [details of speaker to follow].

About the cycle "Pour une Ethique de la discussion, enjeux démocratiques" (For an ethics of discussion, democratic issues)

We seem to have become powerless in the face of the generalized disruption of discussion, which we all too easily attribute to the deregulated media. We must never forget that our societies are still rife with affects that drive us to violence, the very ones Freud warned us about in his Malaise in Culture. At the same time, this derangement of discussion into inexhaustible combat, into "agonistics", is clearly detrimental to democratic debate. And the remedies against it cannot be based on the invocation of reason, or even truth, which remain powerless in political debate. Even if, against conspiracy and negativism, we must defend the facts and use reason, democratic discussion is not based on the authority of truths, but on the pluralism of opinions without which it cannot exist and must be defended. No doubt we need to promote a culture of democratic conflict and its normal play. We will seek to develop this hypothesis by looking at some of the fields that embody it.