| Titre | Les deux principes du libéralisme | |
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| Auteur | Bertrand Binoche | |
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Revue | Actuel Marx |
| Numéro | no 36, septembre 2004 Marx et Foucault | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Interventions |
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| Page | 123-149 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Two Principles of Liberalism. The aim of our article is to
construct a substantive definition of liberalism. To do so, the article brings together two
principles which are entirely distinct, both in historical and in logical terms. The first is
the principle of lesser government, according to which the State should allow the
individual to carry out those actions which the latter is best fitted to perform – and, to
begin with, those actions where the individual's own safety is at stake. The second is the
principle of differential government, which stipulates that liberty is only possible when
several, heterogeneous systems of constraint – laws, morals, etc. – are simultaneously in
operation. Liberalism, in the strict sense of the term, that is, understood as a body of
thought which explicitly defined itself as such at the start of the nineteenth century,
emerged from the encounter between these two principles. What is today called « neo-liberalism », that is, the subsumption of all modes of endeavour under the sole rule of
economic exchange, thus proves to be the negation rather than the accomplishment of
liberalism. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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