Autres lectures d'été
La juste part Co-auteurs :
David Robichaud et Patrick Turmel, tous deux professeurs de philosophie.
Versions électronique et papier disponibles.
Clarté, simplicité, humour, et accessible à Monsieur et Madame Tout-le-monde.
Un fascicule de 100 pages que j'ai lu d’une traite.
Résumé
Les indignés d'Occupy et d'ailleurs ont-ils raison de se plaindre des inégalités croissantes? Sont-elles plutôt le prix à payer pour les grands bénéfices de l'économie de marché? Dans quelle mesure peut-on intervenir dans la distribution de la richesse, et peut-on le faire sans brimer les libertés individuelles? Les riches et les pauvres méritent-ils leur sort? Qu'est-ce que la «juste part», au juste? C'est à ces questions pressantes que répond La juste part. À la fois accessible, érudit et brulant d'actualité, ce court essai jette un éclairage original sur ce débat qui secoue notre époque.
Possible de lire l'introduction sur ce site :
http://www.archambault.ca/david-robichaud-la-juste-part-JLI3541167-fr-pr
Articles :
http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/livres/critiques-de-livres/201206/22/01-4537435-la-juste-part-du-grille-pain-et-de-la-repartition-des-richesses-.php
http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/livres/353480/quelle-est-votre-juste-part
L’art de philosopher sans que «raison et humanisme ne s’opposent»
Le dernier livre de Sam Harris : FREE WILL
http://www.samharris.org/blog
From the Free Press:
A
belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is
difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate
relationships, morality — as well as feelings of remorse or personal
achievement — without first imagining that every person is the true source of
his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an
illusion.
In this enlightening book, Sam Harris
argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or
diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should
change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life. In this elegant and provocative book, Sam Harris demonstrates — with great intellectual ferocity and panache — that free will is an inherently flawed and incoherent concept, even in subjective terms. If he is right, the book will radically change the way we view ourselves as human beings.
~ V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, UCSD, and author of The Tell-Tale Brain.
Brilliant and witty — and never less than incisive — Free Will shows that Sam Harris can say more in 13,000 words than most people do in 100,000.
~ Oliver Sacks
Free will is an illusion so convincing that people simply refuse to believe that we don’t have it. In Free Will, Sam Harris combines neuroscience and psychology to lay this illusion to rest at last. Like all of Harris’s books, this one will not only unsettle you but make you think deeply. Read it: you have no choice.
~ Jerry A. Coyne, Professor of Ecology and Evolution at The University of Chicago, and author of Why Evolution is True.
Many say that believing that there is no free will is impossible — or, if possible, will cause nihilism and despair. In this feisty and personal essay, Harris offers himself as an example of a heart made less self-absorbed, and more morally sensitive and creative, because this particular wicked witch is dead.
~ Owen Flanagan, Professor of Philosophy, Duke University, and author of The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in the Material World.
If you believe in free will, or know someone who does, here is the perfect antidote. In this smart, engaging, and extremely readable little book, Sam Harris argues that free will doesn’t exist, that we’re better off knowing that it doesn’t exist, and that — once we think about it in the right way — we can appreciate from our own experience that it doesn’t exist. This is a delightful discussion by one of the sharpest scholars around.
~ Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology, Yale University, and author of How Pleasure Works.
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