Pierre Manent is a professor of political philosophy. He was director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales for a long time.
Alain Finkielkraut is a philosopher, writer, member of the French Academy.
If Pierre Manent and Alain Finkielkraut share the same taste for the debate of ideas, civil conversation and the same passion in the search for truth, they do not have the same relationship to God.
The disciple of Raymond Aron devotes his last work, Blaise Pascal and the Christian proposal (Grasset), to the author of Thoughts.
The academician, he confesses not to have faith: the absence of God imposed itself on him as an "implacable truth".
LE FIGARO.
- Pierre Manent, you have just published a captivating essay devoted to Blaise Pascal, and, more broadly, to the Christian proposal.
Why return to the author of
Pensées
?
Pierre MANENT.
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First, because I love him.
He has the living presence of a talking man.
This feeling, I also experience it with Montaigne or with...
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