Chantal Delsol-Francis Wolff: "Is universalism a Western idea?"

Chantal Delsol, of the Institute, publishes The Universal Twilight in debate with Francis Wolff, professor emeritus in the philosophy department of the École normale supérieure in the rue d'Ulm and author of a recent Advocacy for the universal .

LE FIGARO.- Chantal Delsol, you think that Western universalism is severely weakened and criticized by the cultures of other countries. What does it mean to you to be universalist?

Chantal DELSOL. - There is a universal, that of the human condition - what the anthropologist Marcel Mauss calls "the rock": gender, filiation, life and death. There is also a moral universal, certainly very general: good is the link, evil is separation, everywhere in the world. But universalism is the universal that we want to impose. In this sense I am not at all universalist. We all have beliefs: personally I am Christian, so I believe that the individual has their own dignity, but this is not the case for the Chinese by

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