Philosophical conference: The invocation of economic argument in public and political discussion

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" continues this Wednesday, March 19 at 5pm, with the theme "L'invocation l'argument économique dans la discussion publique et politique" ("The invocation of economic argument in public and political discussion"). The invocation of economic argument in public and political discussion" . This conference 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

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This conference will be moderated by Hervé Hutin, Associate Professor of Economic and Social Sciences, researcher at the LLSETI, Master in Crisis Analysis and Humanitarian Action, Université Savoie Mont Blanc.

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.

LEARN MORE

• Program for the 2024-2025 philosophy lecture series
• LLSETI laboratory website
• Contact: Pascal Bouviermember of the LLSETI laboratory and organizer of this conference series