Le rapport entre bonheur et vertu suscite de nombreux débats et controverses au dix-huitième siècle. Diderot, tout en reconnaissant la subjectivité du bonheur, insiste sur l’importance de la vertu, affirmant qu’elle est essentielle pour atteindre le bonheur. En effet, à deux reprises, il écrira : « point de bonheur sans vertu » (Essai sur le…

Le Cercle Benvensite s’est réuni pour discuter les fins de l’article de John McWhorter pulié dans le site New York Times.

Carlo Illuminati Porcari (University of Calgary) This paper aims to clarify three key issues of the political praxis, which Machiavelli considers the most difficult and risky human activity: because of both the intellectual capacity to establish an adequate plan for power and the valour required to achieve it. The term that unites the two capacities…

Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary) Since the 1980s, a new focus on art patronage and art collecting by women has emerged. Scholars explore the collecting and sponsorship of art projects by women, whose intentions were to honor themselves making a statement of their pedigree, power, and nobility. Indeed, female patrons not only celebrated their lineage,…