The barbaric assassination of Samuel Paty leads us to examine the flaws, particularly legal ones, of our liberal democracy into which the Islamists are engulfed, who claim our principles to better fight them.
This is the thesis defended by Marcel Gauchet.
As early as 1980, in a
landmark
article in Le
Débat
, entitled "Human rights are not a policy," the author of
The Advent of Democracy
(Gallimard) pointed out the dangers of an infinite extension of individual freedoms, recalled the ancient antagonism between democracy and liberalism and warned about the risk of tyranny of minorities.
Against a backdrop of globalization, European integration and political correctness, this drift has, according to him, worsened over the past four decades to the point of threatening the cohesion of Western societies.
For the philosopher, the terrorist threat must encourage our liberal democracies to find a balance between the legitimate rights of individuals and sovereignty
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