Éric Deschavanne is a philosophy teacher, including the author of an essay called The Second Humanism (Germina 2010).
Pierre-Henri Tavoillot is a lecturer in philosophy at Paris-Sorbonne University, and has published in particular How to govern a king people? (Odile Jacob, 2019). Both of them run the College of Philosophy together.
Authority comes from above, trust comes from below, ” said Sieyès. The French problem is that we no longer have high or low. This is the main lesson of the crisis, which confirms a long-established diagnosis. On the side of trust, citizens have little in the way of a State to which they nonetheless demand more and more. The state is full of distrust of civil society, which it perceives as a bunch of refractory Gauls. Within the state, the executive relies very little on the administration (which makes it good), nor on the legislature, which gets stuck in dullness. Between the elected officials and the services, what misunderstandings!
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