Présentation Du Master Philosophie Morale Et Politique 22-23 PDF

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UFR OF PHILOSOPHY
Master's degree "Philosophy"

“Political Philosophy and Ethics” standard course
Head of course Mr.

Professor Stéphane Chauvier
TEACHING PROGRAM
Academic year 2022/2023
http://lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr
Summary
1. ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION OF TRAINING............................................... ................................... 4
1. 1. ADMINISTRATIVE REGISTRATION ............................................... .................................................. .................................................. ....4
1.2. PEDAGOGICAL REGISTRATIONS ............................................... .................................................. .................................................. ....4
1. 3. KNOWLEDGE CHECKS ............................................... .................................................. .................................................. ...4
1.4. ENTRY DATES .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...................6
1.5. CONTACTS.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...................................6
2. GENERAL PRESENTATION.................................................. .................................................. ........................................ 7
2.1. TRAINING OBJECTIVES .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .....7 2.2.
TRAINING AND RESEARCH THEMES TEAM OF TEACHERS-RESEARCHERS....................................................7
2. 3. TEACHING MODELS, ECTS CREDITS /COEFFICIENTS............................................... ...............................................8
3- THE YEAR OF MASTER 1.................................................. .................................................. ..............................................10
3.1. COMMON TRUNK COURSE (UE 1)............................................. .................................................. ..............................................10
3.1.1.M1/2PHPO13Common core courseI........................................... .................................................. ....................... 10
3.1.2.M1/2PHPO14CoursedetronccommonII........................................... .................................................. ..................... 11
3.1.3.M1/2PHPO15Common core courseIII........................................... .................................................. ................... 12
3.2. Tutorials (UE2&UE3).............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .......................13
3.2.1.TD1:politicalphilosophy(UE2)........................................ .................................................. ........................................... 13
M1/2PHPO21TD1, group 1: Serge Audier (1st and 2nd semester) .................................. .................................................. ..13
M1PHPO21TD1group2:HélèneL'Heuillet(semester 1)....................................... .................................................. .......14
M2PHPO21TD1groupe2:HugoLorgeril(semester2)............................................ .................................................. ............14
3.2.2.TD2:moralphilosophy(UE3)........................................ .................................................. ........................................ 14
M1/2PHPO31TD2groupe1:Jean-BaptisteJuillard (1st and 2nd semesters) ..................................... .................................14
M1/2PHPO31TD2groupe2: OphélieDesmons (1st and 2nd semesters)....................................... ...........................................16
3.3. RESEARCH TRAINING SEMINARS (UE4, UE5 & UE6)............................................ ...........................................16
M1/ M2PHPO41/51: Penal philosophy seminar. Resp. :Philippe Audegean........................................... 17
M1/ M2PHPO42/52: International Relations Philosophy Seminar.Resp. :Stephane Chauvier
.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ................. 18
M1/ M2PHPO43/53: Seminar in social and political philosophy. Resp. :HélèneL’Heuillet ............... 18
M1/2PHPO44/54 Political Philosophy Seminar: Resp. :Serge Audier................................................ ........ 19
M1/ M2PHPO45/55: Seminar in environmental ethics and technologies. Resp. :MichelPuech. 19
M1/ M2PHPO46/56: Seminar in political philosophy. Resp. :Pierre-HenriTavoillot ............................... 20
3.4. UE7 METHODOLOGY M1/2PHPO70.................................................. .................................................. ..................................20
4. THE YEAR OF MASTER'S 2 .............................. .................................................. ..............................................21
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4.1. RESEARCH MEMORY ( UE5 ).............................................. .................................................. ...............................................21
4.2. RESEARCH TRAINING SEMINARS (UE1 & UE2).............................................. ................................................21
M3/ M4PHP011/21: Seminar in moral and political philosophy. Resp. :PhilippeAudegean.................. 21
M3/ M4PHPO12/22: Seminar in moral philosophy. Resp. :Stephane Chauvier.............................................. 23
M3/ M4PHPO13/23: Seminar in social and political philosophy. Resp. :HélèneL'Heuillet ...................... 23
M3/ M4PHPO14/24: Law Philosophy Seminar.Resp. :Jean-CassienBillier ....................................... 23
M3/ M4PHPO15/25: Seminar in political philosophy. Resp. :Pierre-HenriTavoillot ............................... 26
4.3. TD DETRONC COMMON.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .............27
4.3.1.Tutorialsforreadingtexts(UE3)............................................. .................................................. .............................................. 27
M3/4PHPO30:group1 .............................................. .................................................. .................................................. ........................27
M3/M4PHPO30:group2 .............. .................................................. .................................................. .............................................27
4.3.2. Specialized TD (UE4).............................................. .................................................. .................................................. ........... 28
M3/M4PHPO41: Recognition theories .................................................. .................................................. ............................28
M3/M4PHPO44:Philosophyofhistory........................................... .................................................. ........................................29
4.4. COMMONRESEARCH SEMINAR UE6 M3/4PHPO60.................................................. .................................................. ..30
5. STUDY DAYS AND SYMPOSIUMS ............................................... .................................................. .....................30
6. PROFESSIONAL INSERTION OF STUDENTS.................................................. .............................................30
7.INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES.................................................. .................................................. ..............................31
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1. ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION OF TRAINING

1. 1. Administrative registration
Admission to M1 is done exclusively via the e-candidate application https://candgest 2022.sorbonne-
universite.fr/connect#!accueilView, including for students who have validated their L3 at Sorbonne-University.
The application is open from April 1 to May 16, then from July 4 to July 17
2022. Admission to M2 for students coming from another university is also done via
the e-candidate application.
Students who wish to change their standard course between M1 and M2 must also go through the e-candidate
procedure.
Administrative registration in M1 for students admitted via the above procedure and in M2 for students who
have validated their M1 in 2022-2023 at Sorbonne University is done online, on the Faculty of Letters website,
from June 27 to 20 July and from August 24 to October 28, 2022, according to a procedure described here:
https://lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/actualites/inscriptions-administratives 2022.
1.2. Educational registrations

Once administratively registered at Sorbonne University, students must proceed to
their educational registrations with the UFR during the month of September.
Dates of educational registrations:
— Master 1: opening of IPWEBs on the student ENT in the week of September 5, 2022
(consult the student ENT to know the precise date of the beginning of registrations).
— Master 2: file to download from the UFR website during the week of September 5, 2022 and from
submit to the UFR secretariat.
ÿ Please note: pedagogical registrations are made each semester and condition
registration for exams and, consequently, the possibility of validating the teaching units of the master.
When registering for courses, students have the choice between registering in
continuous assessment regime and enrollment in an attendance exemption regime.
The continuous control regime is the normal regime. Registration under the attendance exemption regime is
a derogatory registration which may be granted, on the decision of the director of the UFR, to students with a
professional activity, with dependent children, registered in two independent courses, to students with disabilities ,
top athletes, students involved in civic life or students elected to Councils.
Students meeting one of these conditions must apply for registration under the attendance exemption regime,
with supporting documents, to the UFR secretariat one month at the latest after the start date of the courses of
each university semester. If the student's situation requires it (illness, change of employment contract, etc.), the
one-month period may be postponed.
The student then registers in the group "dispensed from attendance" when registering online for education (IP
web). In the absence of the required supporting documents, the secretariat will register the student for continuous
assessment.
1. 3. Knowledge check
In accordance with the knowledge assessment methods adopted by the University's Academic Council, all
master's teaching units are assessed under a full continuous assessment system and are therefore not subject
to a remedial session. The methods of knowledge control can be consulted here: http://lettres.sorbonne-
universite.fr/formation/scolarite
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Continuous monitoring can take different forms which will be specified by the teacher.
responsible for the UE (table-top exercise, oral questioning, mini-memory, presentation, etc.).
Students exempted from regular attendance validate their teaching units by participating in the last continuous
assessment examination organized by the teacher in charge or by submitting a previously defined assignment.
ÿ Students registered under an attendance exemption regime must therefore regularly consult the
information posted on the Moodle application (described below) which includes the assessment methods that
will be applied to them. They can also contact, at the beginning of the semester, the teacher in charge to obtain
any information necessary for the validation of the EU.
Foreign students enrolled in exchange programs, in particular ERASMUS, are

subject to the same knowledge control conditions.
Students with a disability can benefit from special measures during the tests.
The evaluations of the master's teaching units can take place during the course period as well as during
the examination period defined by the university calendar voted on by the CA.
For the calculation of the average of each semester, the mark of each EU is affected by a coefficient equal to the
number of ECTS (European Credits Transfer System) of the EU. The distribution of ECTS by teaching unit is detailed
below p. 8-9.
The transition from Master 1 to Master 2 is conditional on obtaining an annual average greater than or equal to
10/20 (possibly after compensation between the two semesters of M1).
Jury dates
The grades obtained in the different teaching units are communicated to the students a few days after the juries are
held. The master's jury will meet, in the first semester, on January 25, 2023 and, in the second semester, on July 4,
2023. For M2 students, a derogatory session for late submission of dissertations is organized in September, with a
meeting of the jury September 27, 2023.
Master 2 dissertation delivery dates

In M2, the submission of the thesis must take place on Thursday June 8, 2023. However, and with the agreement
of the research director, students can also submit their thesis on Monday September 4, 2023, as part of the exceptional
session of September.
Dissertations must be submitted in two hard copies to the UFR secretariat as well as in a digital copy to be sent to
the address: Lettres-philosophie-memoires@sorbonne universite.fr.
A standardized dissertation cover page can be downloaded from the MOODLE section of the specialty or from the
student ENT.
The defense of the dissertation takes place before a jury composed of at least two teachers,
director or director of research.
Precision concerning the seminars

All M1 and M2 seminars take place in the form of two-hour sessions per fortnight. The M1 seminars generally
begin the first week of classes, those of M2 the second. In any case, it is essential to read the schedule of sessions
communicated during the first session by the teacher responsible for the seminar and displayed at the UFR and on the
ENT, as well as on the MOODLE platform.
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1.4. Back-to-school dates

Back-to-school meetings for the “Political Philosophy and Ethics” course: — M1:
Monday, September 12, from 5 to 6.30 p.m., Amphi Milne Edwards, Sorbonne.
— M2: Tuesday, September 13, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Amphi Molinié, Center Serpente.
Beginning of lessons: —
Monday, September 12, 2022 for all M1 lessons and M2 tutorials.
— Monday, September 19, 2022 for M2 seminars.
1.5. contacts
Masters manager: Mrs Marlène DEFFON
UFR of philosophy, Sorbonne, staircase E, 2nd floor.
In Serpente, office 324, on Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Telephone: 01 40 46 26 83, Tuesday 01 53 10 57 95.
Email: letters-philosophy-master@sorbonne-universite.fr
Opening of the UFR secretariat from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed on Monday and
Friday afternoon.
Head of the specialty : Stéphane Chauvier (stephane.chauvier@sorbonne-université.fr).

Reception of students on Wednesdays from 8:30 to 9:30 by appointment, office F-041.
The schedule of the permanence of all the teachers of the UFR is displayed at the beginning of the year at
secretariat and can be consulted on the UFR website.
MOODLE platform and student information

https://moodle-letters.sorbonne-universite.fr/moodle-2022/
On the MOODLE platform (path: human sciences/philosophy/master), students will be able to find a section
entitled "Information master political philosophy and ethics".
All the information and documents useful for the entire specialty, M1 and M2, are included in this section. They will
also find there, for each of their teaching units, a course page containing the information and documents posted by
the teacher responsible for the teaching unit.
However, the MOODLE platform does not replace the student ENT (section "UFR de philosophie"), which
contains information relating to any absences of teachers and the organization of exams.
F The students must regularly consult these two virtual spaces, the administrative and pedagogical information
concerning the whole UFR or the whole specialty not being distributed individually to each student. It is also
important that students subscribe, via their email address, to all the MOODLE sections that concern them (general
section + courses), in order to facilitate the sending of group electronic messages.
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2. GENERAL PRESENTATION
2.1. Training aims
The Sorbonne University Master of Philosophy has offered, for more than 20 years, a
specialization in political philosophy and ethics, which it was for a long time the only one in
French universities to offer. Of the approximately 500 students in the Sorbonne University Master
of Philosophy each year (excluding preparation for the aggregation), between 130 and 150 of
them are enrolled in the “politics and ethics” standard course.
The main teachings of the Master, as well as the personal work of the members of its training
team, aim to address issues that are not simply the product of the history of political philosophy
and moral philosophy, but which spring from contemporary societies themselves. While providing
students with a solid mastery of the historical, conceptual and doctrinal bases of these disciplines,
the Master also aims to give them the methodological tools to enable them to measure themselves
against the
application issues imposed by the present state of our societies.
2.2. Teacher-researcher training team and research topics

Teachers
Philippe AUDEGEAN (philippe.audegean@sorbonne-universite.fr) : political philosophy of the classical age
(17th - 18th century); philosophy of law, penal philosophy; Enlightenment philosophy; Italian philosophy, Italian
Enlightenment, Leopardi.
Stéphane CHAUVIER (stephane.chauvier@sorbonne-universite.fr) : economic and social ethics;
intergenerational ethics; philosophy of international relations; meta-ethics, metaphysics.
Céline SPECTOR (celine.spector@sorbonne-universite.fr) [in delegation to the CNRS during the year
2022-2023] : political philosophy, philosophy of history, philosophy of law; the philosophy of the Enlightenment
and its heritage; Europe (genealogy of the European idea, identity and solidarity); theories of justice; liberalism
and its critics.
Lecturers authorized to direct research
Serge AUDIER (serge.audier@sorbonne-universite.fr) : philosophy of the republic; theories of
democracy ; history of socialism; liberalism and neoliberalism; political ecology.
Hélène L'HEUILLET (hlheuillet@gmail.com) : philosophy and ethics of violence and war; terrorism; philosophy
of security and policing; ethics of proximity and neighborhood; theory and ethics of psychoanalysis; subject theories.
Michel PUECH (michel.puech@sorbonne-universite.fr) : philosophy and ethics of

technology and sustainability; matter of wisdom.
Pierre-Henri TAVOILLOT (phtavoillot@gmail.com) : ethics of the ages of life and generations;
philosophy of education; political philosophy (authority and art of governing).
Lecturers Jean-Cassien
BILLIER (jcassienbillier@gmail.com) : normative ethics, meta-ethics, applied ethics; theories of justice;
philosophy of law.
Ophélie DESMONS (ophelie.desmons@inspe-paris.fr), MCF at INSPE in Paris, internal school of the Faculty
of Letters of Sorbonne University: contemporary political philosophy, philosophy of education.
ATER & contractual doctoral students

Thomas Aït Kaci (thomasaitkaci@gmail.com), ATER, metaphysics, German philosophy,
philosophy of history
Jean-Baptiste JUILLARD (profjuillard@gmail.com), ATER, political philosophy, moral philosophy.
Hugo LORGERIL (hugo.lorgeril@gmail.com), ATER, political philosophy, moral philosophy, theories
of recognition.
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2. 3. Teaching models, ECTS credits/coefficients
Typical course: Political philosophy and ethics

master 1
M1S1 Ects Title of teaching units H.CM H.CM H.TD H.TD
week semester week semester
UE 1 Common core 2
4 CTC1 Hist. modern political philosophy 2 26
4 CTC2 Intro. economic and social ethics 1.5 19.5

4 CTC3 Intro. to Applied Ethics * 1.5 19.5
2 UE 2 TD 1: political philosophy 1.5 19.5
2 UE 3 TD 2: moral philosophy 1.5 19.5
4 UE 4 Course specialty seminar (1) 1 13
4 UE 6 Off-course seminar** 1 or 1.5 13 or 19.5
2 UE 7 Methodology 8
Total 30 8/8.5 104.5/110.5 3 47
UE 1 Common core 2
4 CTC1 Hist. modern political philosophy 2 26
4 CTC2 Intro. economic and social ethics 1.5 19.5

4 CTC3 Intro. to Applied Ethics* 1.5 19.5
2 UE 2 TD 1: political philosophy 1.5 19.5
2 UE 3 TD 2: moral philosophy 1.5 19.5
4 UE 6 Off-course seminar* 1 or 1.5 13 or 19.5
2 UE 7 Methodology 8
Total 30 8/8.5 104.5/110.5 3 47
* The common core course 3 is taught in English.
* * The off-course seminar is to be chosen from the list of seminars of the other courses of the master's degree "philosophy"
(History of philosophy-metaphysics-phenomenology, Aesthetics and philosophy of art, Philosophy of science, knowledge and spirit, Arab and
Muslim worlds) or in the seminars of the master I in sociology.
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master 2
7 UE1 Seminar 1* 1 13
7 UE2 Seminar 2** 1 13
4 UE3 Texts of political philosophy or ethics 1.5 19.5
contemporaries
4 UE4 TD of specialization, to choose:
Philosophy of law 1.5 19.5
7 UE5 Memory: stage work

1 teaching unit 6 Joint research seminar 1 12
Total 30 3 38 3 39
4 UE1 Seminar 1* 1 13
4 UE2 Seminar 2** 1 13
3 UE3 Texts of political philosophy or ethics 1.5 19.5
contemporaries
3 UE4 TD of specialization, to choose:
Philosophy of law 1.5 19.5
15 UE5 Memory
1 teaching unit 6 Joint research seminar 1 12
Total 30 3 38 3 39
*Seminar 1 is that of the thesis director.
**Seminar 2 is to be chosen from the list of seminars in the “Political Philosophy and Ethics” standard course.
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3- THE YEAR OF MASTER 1

The Master I year includes five common core courses, three CM (3.1.) and two TD (3.2.), as well as three
research training seminars (3.3), to which are added methodology sessions (3.4 ).
3.1. Common core course (UE 1)

The three common core courses (CTC) are provided by Philippe Audegean (CTC1, 2 hours per week), by
Stéphane Chauvier (CTC2, 1.5 hours per week) and by Jean-Cassien Billier (CTC3, 1.5 hours per week). These
three courses aim to provide students with a common base of fundamental knowledge, the first by emphasizing
the dynamics of the history of modern political philosophy, the second by offering a systematic introduction to
economic and social ethics, the third by offering an overview of the major themes of contemporary applied
ethics. This last lesson is taught in English.
3.1.1. M1/2PHPO13 Common core course I
Philippe Audegean
History of modern political philosophy: from the Aristotelian heritage to the advent of political
modernity On the threshold of the modern era, between the 16th and 17th centuries, a new way of
conceiving political association took shape: this way new breaks with old thinking. How to describe
(and evaluate) this rupture?
To answer this question, it is still necessary to know what there is a break with: also the course will
first come back to Aristotle's Politics – privileged object of criticism of the Moderns, but which does
not Nevertheless, it has always remained on the horizon of their conception of the different forms of
power and the different political regimes.
It is then necessary to determine the place of this rupture. At least two claimants dispute the title of
founder of modern political thought: Machiavelli and Hobbes. In Renaissance Florence, the concept
of the state was thus born, which definitively supplanted the ancient city; and in the England of the
civil wars the modern concept of sovereignty asserted itself.
However, this double origin of political modernity has something enigmatic: its artisans have indeed
unanimously served as a foil for almost all the thinkers who have succeeded them. Until the revolutions
of the end of the 18th century, Machiavelli and Hobbes were the bane of political thought. To answer
our initial question, it will therefore also be necessary to understand both how these two authors
imposed a new way of thinking about politics and how their modern successors nevertheless tried to
think it against them.
The two semesters will be organized as follows.
S1. From Aristotle to Machiavelli, or from the ancient city to the modern state. In this first part of the
course, after a reading of Aristotle's Politics , we will attempt to describe the emergence of modern
political thought by reading certain texts by Machiavelli, while questioning ourselves on the emergence
of the concept of State and on the two traditions that resulted from it, that of reason of state and that
of sovereignty.
S2. From Hobbes to Rousseau: the question of freedom. In this second part of the course, we will
choose the concept of freedom as a witness to the conflicts, divergences, internal tensions that
animate modern political thought after its dual foundation in Florence and England.
Bibliography
1-Texts
o ARISTOTLE, The Politics (recommended edition: translated from ancient Greek by Pierre Pellegrin,
Paris, GF-Flammarion, 2015).
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o MACHIAVEL, De principatibus-Le Prince (recommended edition: translated from Italian by Jean Louis
Fournel and Jean-Claude Zancarini, Paris, PUF, 2000); Discourse on the first decade of Livy
(recommended edition: translated from Italian by Alessandro Fontana and Xavier Tabet, Paris,
Gallimard, 2004).
o HOBBES, Léviathan (recommended edition: translated from English by François Tricaud, Paris, Dalloz,
2000), chap. 10-26.
o LOCKE, Second treaty of government (recommended edition: translated from English by Jean Fabien
Spitz, Paris, PUF, 1995; one can also obtain the old translation of David Mazel, published under the
title Treaty of civil government in an edition more economical: Paris, GF-Flammarion, 1992).
o MONTESQUIEU, L'Esprit des lois, books I-XIX.

o ROUSSEAU, Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among men
(recommended edition: Paris, GF-Flammarion, 2001); From the social contract (recommended edition:
Paris, GF-Flammarion, 2001).
2-Studies
o On Aristotle: WOLFF Francis, Aristotle and politics, Paris, PUF, 1991; TERREL Jean, The Politics of
Aristotle. Democracy put to the test of social division, Paris, Vrin, 2015.
o On Machiavelli: SKINNER Quentin, Machiavelli, translated from English by Michel Plon, Paris, Le Seuil,
2001; STRAUSS Leo, Thoughts on Machiavelli, translated from English by Michel Pierre Edmond and
Thomas Stern, Paris, Klincksieck, 2017.
o On Hobbes: MALHERBE Michel, Hobbes or the work of reason, Paris, Vrin, 2000.
o On Locke: SPITZ Jean-Fabien, John Locke and the foundations of modern freedom, Paris,
PUF, 2001.
o On Montesquieu: SPECTOR Céline, Montesquieu. Freedom, law and history, Paris,
Michalon, 2010.
o On Rousseau: SPITZ Jean-Fabien, Political freedom, Paris, PUF, 1995.
Other recommended reading:
o CONSTANT Benjamin, “Of the freedom of the Ancients compared to that of the Moderns” [1819], in
Political Writings, ed. Marcel Gauchet, Paris, Gallimard, 1997, p. 589-619.
o SKINNER Quentin, Freedom before liberalism, translated from English by Muriel Zagha, Paris, Seuil,
2016.
o STRAUSS Leo, "The three waves of modernity", in Political Philosophy and History: the usefulness and
disadvantages of history for philosophy, translated from English by Olivier Sedeyn, Paris, General
Library French, 2008, p. 211-235; Natural Law and History, trans. Monique Nathan and Eric de
Dampierre, Paris, Flammarion, 1986.
o TERREL Jean, Theories of the social pact. Natural law, sovereignty and the Bodin contract
to Rousseau, Paris, Seuil, 2001.
3.1.2. M1/2PHPO14 Common core course II

Stephane Chauvier
Introduction to economic and social ethics
“The first presupposition of all human existence [is] that men should be able to live. But, in order to live, it
is above all necessary to drink, eat, lodge, dress and a few other things besides. The first fact […] is
therefore the production of the means to satisfy these needs, the production of material life itself. (Marx,
The German Ideology, Social Editions, 2012, p. 26.)
All human societies must devote part of their resources, both human and natural, to producing the goods
and services essential to the subsistence of their members as well as to their well-being. This is true of
both primitive hunter-gatherer societies and modern industrial societies. The distribution of productive tasks
as much as of goods and services among the members therefore constitutes one of the
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primary functions of any social organization and the good or bad fulfillment of this function determines,
to a large extent, the overall quality of a human society: a society which does not produce enough to
feed its members or which produces too much at the risk of degrading the natural environment or
allowing very deep inequalities of well-being to develop between its members can hardly pass for a
good society, regardless of its "performance" in other dimensions of social life.
However, it would be illusory to think that the good economic organization of a society depends only
on the competence and honesty of its rulers. There are few contemporary rulers who do not wish to
ensure full employment, promote growth, reduce inequalities or preserve the environment, if only
because, in a democratic society, this may be a condition of their re-election. But, to achieve these
ends, they must not only solve technical problems, which are the sole concern of scientific expertise:
they must also arbitrate between contrasting and even conflicting assessments of what it is fair or
unfair to impose on members in terms of economic and social: is it fair to tax very high incomes for
purposes of redistribution? Is it fair to force the unemployed to accept whatever jobs are offered to
them? Is it fair to prohibit a company from relocating its activities abroad? Is it fair to guide or even
constrain the consumption of members because of the negative external effects it can have?
If we call ethics the rational theory of what human beings owe to each other (and possibly also to non-
human creatures) in such and such sectors of their social interactions, we can call economic and
social ethics the that part of ethics which seeks to determine what human beings owe each other by
participating in the same “social process of production” (Marx).
The objective of this course will be to systematically present the central themes of economic and
social ethics and, beyond them, the major ethical and political divisions which divide the members of
contemporary societies when it comes to determine what is the just and good economic order of a
society.
Introductory bibliography : Christian Ansperger & Philippe Van Parijs, Economic and Social Ethics,
Paris, La Découverte, “Repères”, 2000; Daniel M. Hausman & Michael S.
McPherson, Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 19961 , 20062 .
3.1.3. M1/2PHPO15 Common core course III

Jean-Cassien Biller
Semester 1— Introduction to Applied Ethics
The objective of the course is to provide a detailed introduction to applied ethics. The course will
explore ethical issues related to moral status (children, abortion, reproductive technology, genetic
engineering, animals, environmental ethics, surrogate motherhood), personal lives (sexuality, family,
love), life and death (euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide , capital punishment, war), justice
and international relations (immigration, national autonomy, world hunger), just society (racism,
education, affirmative action, freedom of speech and religion, hate crimes, whistle-blowing, corporate
responsibility). All these issues will be linked with meta-ethics questions and various options in
normative ethics. The course will be given in English.
Bibliography: RG Frey and Christopher Wellman (ed.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Oxford,
Blackwell, 2003. A detailed bibliography will be provided during the course.
Semester 2 — Public Health and Medical Ethics
This course will focus on a range of issues in public health and medical ethics. Public Health
Ethics: Health, Disease and the Goal of Public Health; Screening Programs; Allocation of Scarce
Resources: Theories of Justice and Health; The Challenge of Infectious Disease: (a)
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Immunization: Vaccination Ethics; (b) Ethics of Epidemics: The Patient as Victim and Vector; (c)
Quarantine and Civil Liberties. Medical Ethics: Medical Codes and Oaths; Truth Telling; Medical
Confidentiality; Principlism: For and Against; Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide;
Reproductive Choice, Selective Reproduction and Eugenics; Savior Sibling; Selling/Giving
Organs, Gametes, and Surrogacy Services.
Bibliography: Dawson, Angus (ed.), Public Health Ethics. Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and
Practice, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011; Holland, Stephen, Public Health Ethics,
Cambridge, Polity Press, 2015; Hope, Tony, Medical Ethics. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 2004; Jonsen, Albert R., A Short History of Medical Ethics, Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 2000; Rhodes, Rosamond et al (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Medical
Ethics, Oxford, Blackwell, 2007.
3.2. TD (UE2 & UE3)

Students must validate two TDs, a TD 1 in political philosophy and a TD 2 in moral philosophy.
For each of these two tutorials, students have the choice between two groups of tutorials detailed
below.
3.2.1. TD1: political philosophy (UE2)

Students enroll in one of two tutorial groups, one of which will be led by Serge Audier in both
semesters, the other by Hélène L'Heuillet in the first semester and by Hugo Lorgeril
to the second.
M1/2PHPO21 TD 1, group 1: Serge Audier (1st and 2nd semester)

Semester 1 — Intellectual Genealogy of the Rule of Law
The advent of modern political philosophy is often analyzed in terms of the affirmation of the rule
of law proceeding from the consent of the associated citizens. In particular, liberal-inspired
stories point to a difficult process of building and limiting the state, culminating in the philosophy
of John Locke and the great Bills of Rights of the 17th and 18th centuries. Other perspectives
on the history of political philosophy – of “republican” or even “conservative” inspiration – have
further underlined the heterogeneity of political languages and paradigms, both competing and
partly hybridized. Beyond the historiographical controversies of which the interpretation of Locke
constitutes an important “knot”, the objective of this course is to read closely certain founding
texts which escape the agreed reading grids.
First bibliographic indications : Plato, La République, Tel-Gallimard; Bodin, The Six Books of the
Republic, Folio; Grotius, The Law of War and Peace, PUF; Hobbes, Leviathan, GF; Locke,
Second Treatise on Civil Government, GF; Montesquieu, On the Spirit of Laws, GF; Rousseau,
On the social contract, GF; Constant, Principles of politics, Pluriel Semester 2 — The political
stakes of pluralism
According to the philosopher and historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin, philosophy since Plato and
Aristotle has been dominated by a "monist" conception of the moral and political order. It would
have been necessary to wait for Machiavelli, then some Enlightenment thinkers like Montesquieu,
and then romanticism, for the irreducible plurality of values and social goods to be recognized.
The objective of this course is to re-examine this question, focusing on the way in which the
“classics” of political philosophy, and particularly the thinkers of the 19th century, thought about
and confronted axiological, social and political pluralism.
First bibliographic indications : Plato, La République, TEL-Gallimard; Aristotle, Politics, Vrin;
Machiavelli, The Prince ; Machiavelli, Discourse on the First Decade of Titus Live, Gallimard;
Montesquieu, On the Spirit of Laws, GF; Rousseau, On the social contract, GF; Constant, On
the freedom of the Moderns compared to that of the Ancients, Gallimard; Guizot,
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History of Civilization in Europe, Plural; Tocqueville, Democracy in America,

GF; Mill, On Liberty, Pocket; Berlin, Essays on Freedom, Pocket
M1PHPO21 Tutorial 1 group 2: Hélène L'Heuillet (semester 1)

Interpretations of the French Revolution
Based on the questioning formulated by Hannah Arendt in De la Révolution, we will examine the
analyzes and criticisms of the French Revolution by Edmund Burke, Kant, Benjamin Constant,
Tocqueville, Hegel and Marx, by bringing to light the political and historical implications of these
designs.
M2PHPO21 Tutorial 1 group 2: Hugo Lorgeril (semester 2)
The notion of merit and its criticisms
"Nobility, fortune, a rank, places, all that makes you so proud! What have you done for so many
goods? You took the trouble to be born, and nothing more” (Beaumarchais, The Marriage of
Figaro, Act V, Scene 3).
Any critical reflection on injustice seems destined to encounter the difficult notion of merit.
Although such an idea seems relevant to serve the criticism of the injustices linked to inheritance
and the privileges it grants, it also seems to have the perverse effect of imputing to the less favored
members the responsibility for their lot. It is remarkable in this respect that the main representative
of contemporary political liberalism, John Rawls, based his Theory of Justice (1970) on a radical
challenge to this way of conceiving the relationship of people to their actions and their success.
From an exploration of the arguments of this founding text, the readings proposed in this TD will
aim to examine the metaphysical underpinnings of this notion and its treatment in the
contemporary philosophy of justice.
Bibliography:
Classical texts:
o PASCAL, Three speeches on the condition of adults, Folio, 2004
o ROUSSEAU, Émile or education, (1762), GF, 2009
Contemporary readings:
o BOURDIEU & PASSERON, Reproduction. Elements for a system theory
teaching, Midnight, 1970
o BOURDIEU, Pascalian Meditations, Seuil, 1995
o IHL, Merit and the Republic, Gallimard, 2007 o
JACQUET, Transclasses or non-reproduction, PUF, 2017 o MICHAUD,
What is merit? Folio, 2011
o RAWLS, Theory of justice, (tr. Audard), (1970), Seuil, 1986 o SANDEL,
The tyranny of merit, (tr. Von Busekist), Albin Michel, 2021 o SPITZ, Abolish
chance? PUF, 2008
3.2.2. TD 2: moral philosophy (UE3)

Students enroll in one of the two tutorial groups, one of which will be provided by Jean
Baptiste Juillard (both semesters), the other by Ophélie Desmons (both semesters).
M1/2PHPO31 TD 2 group 1: Jean-Baptiste Juillard (1st and 2nd semesters)
Semester 1— Evolutionary ethics: origin and contemporary discussions.
What does the adjective evolutionary bring to ethics? The possibility of apprehending moral
phenomena on the basis of a scientific theory which, without being unequivocal, makes possible a
complete natural explanation of the functioning of living beings. It was in The Descent of Man,
published a few years after The Origin of Species, that Darwin, being interested in this
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both to the human species, develops the first reflections of an evolutionary ethics. Far from what has
been called social Darwinism, that is to say the ruthless selection of the strongest presented as an
inevitable social fact because it is natural, evolutionary ethics seeks to account for the persistence and
the valorization within human societies of altruism, sacrifice and other essential moral dispositions. The
origin of morality, the social utility of moral rules, the question of being and ought to be, of facts and
values, or even of universalism and relativism are all problems of moral philosophy that knowledge from
the Darwinian theory of evolution can enlighten, if not elucidate. The course will begin with an analysis
of Darwin's texts where evolutionary ethics is outlined, will continue by taking into account the ethical
and political problems posed by the reception or even the distortion (social Darwinism, eugenics) of
Darwin's writings, before going on to study more directly the different contributions of the evolutionary
approach
for ethical reflection. Extracts from Darwin's texts as well as other references will be distributed.
Bibliographical indications :
o DARWIN Charles, The Descent of Man, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2013, trans. under the direction
of Michel Prum. Chapters III, IV and V of the first part. You can refer to the text available online in
Edmond Barbier's translation: http://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/
1891_DescentFrench_F1062.pdf
Where
http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/darwin_charles_robert/descendance_homme/descen
dancehomme.pdf
o AUBÉ BAUDOIN Félix (2016), "Evolutionary Ethics (GP)", in Maxime Kristanek (dir.), the
Philosophical Encyclopedia, https://encyclo-philo.fr/ethique-evolutionnistegp
o CLAVIEN Christine, "Evolutionary Ethics", Review of Theology and Philosophy,
flight. 138, no. 3, 2006. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44359998.
o TORT Patrick, Darwin and Darwinism, Paris, PUF, 2011
Semester 2— The ethics of war: foundations and criticisms.
Because it immediately involves a transgression of the most elementary moral rules, whether it be the
mass death of soldiers and civilians, the destruction of places of life or cultural property, war seems
fundamentally amoral or immoral. .
However, a long philosophical, legal and theological tradition has sought to think about the conditions
of a military deployment in conformity with justice, that is to say of a “just war”.
The very expression “war crime” clearly indicates that war is not necessarily a crime in itself and that it
is possible to draw a line between acceptable and unacceptable acts in the course of a war itself. War
can therefore be the subject of an ethic, inspiring legal regulation (law of armed conflict), under a triple
reflexive modality: the motivations of an act of war (jus ad bellum), the conditions of its unfolding (jus in
bello), the attitude of the victors towards the vanquished (jus post bellum). A distinction will therefore be
made between: a just war (in response to an aggression, to protect a population) from an unjust war
(with an expansionist aim); just means (targeting only soldiers) unjust means (chemical weapons);
ethical victors (helping with reconstruction) immoral victors (indifferent to the fate of the vanquished).
This course will be devoted to the study of the foundations of the ethics of war, its theoretical difficulties
and
practices, and its topicality. A brochure of fundamental texts that will be studied during the semester will
be distributed.
Bibliographic indications: o
BRUNSTETTER Daniel R and HOLEINDRE Jean-Vincent, “Just war through the prism of political theory”,
Raisons politiques, vol. 45, no. 1, 2012, p. 5-18.
o CANTO-SPERBER Monique, The idea of a just war, Paris, PUF, 2010.
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o JEANGÈNE-VILMER Jean-Baptiste, War in the Name of Humanity. Kill or let die

Paris, PUF, 2012.
o NADEAU Christian and SAADA Julie, Just war, unjust war. History, theories and criticism, Paris, PUF,
2009.
o WALZER Michael, Just and Unjust Wars. Moral Argumentation with Historical Examples (Just and
Unjust Wars, 1977), trans. (English) Simone Chambon and Anne Wicke, Paris, Gallimard, 2006.
o WALZER Michael, DIGNAT Étienne and FONDACCI Elvire, “The new challenges of the ethics of
war” (interview), Les Champs de Mars, vol. 34, no. 1, 2020, p. 125-146.
M1/2PHPO31 TD 2 group 2: Ophélie Desmons (1st and 2nd semesters)

Semester 1— Kant and animals: normative moral philosophy
The objective of the TD is to confront Kant's moral philosophy with recent debates in animal philosophy.
Based on his moral philosophy, what moral status is Kant led to accord to nonhuman animals? Do its
positions seem satisfactory to us? If this is not the case, can they be challenged and corrected from
within a Kantian position, or must one, in animal ethics, renounce Kantianism to adopt another moral
philosophy, such as utilitarianism? for example ? After an overview of the fundamental texts of Kant's
moral philosophy, the TD will discuss several important positions in contemporary animal ethics and
politics.
Indicative bibliography : Kant, Foundations of the metaphysics of morals, Paris, the pocket book, 1993;
H.-S. Afeissa & J.-B. Jeangène Vilmer, Animal Philosophy, Paris, Vrin, coll.
“Key texts”, 2010; Peter Singer, Animal Liberation, Paris, Payot, 2012; Tom Regan, Animal Rights,
Paris, Hermann, 2013; Will Kymlicka and Sue Donaldson, Zoopolis, A Political Theory of Animal Rights,
Paris, Alma, 2016.
Semester 2— Moral education: possibility, modalities, legitimacy The
objective of the tutorial is to question the possibility, legitimacy and modalities of a moral education.
Many contemporary democracies include moral education programs in their curriculum. Thus, the
“moral and civic education” program in France, the “ethics and religious culture” program in Quebec or
the “philosophy and citizenship course” in Belgium. The question nevertheless arises as to whether it
is simply possible to transmit moral dispositions and what, if any, would be the appropriate modalities
for such transmission: can knowledge of moral duties suffice or is it necessary to awaken moral
feelings? The question will also be asked to what extent the moral education of citizens constitutes a
legitimate objective for a liberal democracy.
Indicative bibliography : Plato, Ménon; Rousseau, Emile or education; Kant, Treatise on Pedagogy; JS
Mill, On Liberty; J. Rawls, Theory of Justice, Chapter 8; Justice as equity, sections 47, 50, 59.
3.3. Research training seminars (UE4, UE5 & UE6)

In addition to the teachings of the common core, each student of the specialty must also
register for: a) two research training seminars in the field of political philosophy and ethics,
chosen from the offer below ( EU 4 & 5);
b) a research training seminar chosen from one of the three other standard courses of the
master's degree in philosophy (history of philosophy-metaphysics-phenomenology, aesthetics
and philosophy of art, philosophy of science, knowledge and of the mind,) or in a seminar of
the Master of sociology (UE 6). For the choice of the seminar outside the course, the students
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must refer to the master's course brochures available on the UFR de

philosophy and that of the UFR of sociology.
M1/ M2PHPO41/51: Penal philosophy seminar. Resp. : Philippe Audegean
To punish
To define a rational concept of punishment, between the moral beyond of forgiveness and the immoral
below of revenge, one must question its goals (why punish?), its objects (what to punish?), its modalities
(how to punish?). But can we give meaning to the punitive act?
Is there just violence? How to think about the conditions of a just response to unjust violence? At the
crossroads of anthropology, law and morality, penal philosophy puts us to the test of the meaninglessness
of violence. The seminar will attempt to describe and evaluate the major conceptions of punishment that
have been developed in Western philosophy.
Bibliography
1- Classic texts
o PLATO, Laws, IX.
o SENECA, De ira (On anger).
o GROTIUS, The Law of War and Peace, book II, chap. 20.
o HOBBES, Leviathan, II, 28.
o LOCKE, The Second Treatise on Government, § 3, 8, 11, 88, 172.
o PUFENDORF, The Law of Nature and People, book VIII, chap. 1-3.
o MONTESQUIEU, L'Esprit des lois, books VI and XII.
o ROUSSEAU, On the social contract, I, 7 and II, 5.
o BECCARIA, Offenses and penalties.
o KANT, Doctrine du droit (in Metaphysics of morals, II), II, § 49, E (“On the right of
punishment and pardon”).
o NIETZSCHE, Genealogy of morality, II, 13.
o SALEILLES Raymond, The Individualization of Sentence. Social Criminology Study
[1898].
2- Contemporary studies and theories
o BOONIN David, The Problem of Punishment, New York: Cambridge University Press,
2008.
o BRAITHWAITE John, PETTIT Philip, Not Just Deserts. A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990.
o BROOKS Thom, Punishment, London/New York, Routledge, 2012.
o FASSIN Didier, Punish. A contemporary passion, Paris, Seuil, 2017.
o Luigi FERRAJOLI, Diritto e ragione. Teoria del garantiesmo penale, Bari, Laterza, 1989.
o It paradigm guaranteed. Filosofia e critica del diritto penale, Naples,
Editorial Scientifica, 2016.
o FOUCAULT Michel, Monitor and punish. Birth of prison, Paris, Gallimard, 1975.
o GROS Frédéric, “The four hearths of the meaning of punishment”, in Antoine Garapon, Frédéric
Gros, Thierry Pech, And it will be justice. Punish in democracy, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2001, p. 11-138.
o HART Herbert, “Prolegomenon to the Principles of Punishment,” in Punishment and Responsibility.

Essays in the Philosophy of Law, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1968, p. 1-27.
o Law, freedom and morality, followed by The Morality of criminal law [texts taken from
lectures given in 1962 and 1964], translated from English by Gregory Bligh, Paris,
Garnier, 2021.
o KORITANSKY Peter Karl (ed.), The Philosophy of Punishment and the History of Political
Thought, Columbia (Missouri): University of Missouri Press, 2011.
o NADEAU Christian, VACHERET Marion (ed.), Le Châtiment. history, philosophy and
criminal justice practices, Montreal, Liber, 2005.
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o THÉRY Raphaëlle, Penal Liberalism, Paris, Éditions Panthéon Assas, 2022.
M1/ M2PHPO42/52: Philosophy of international relations seminar. Resp. :

Stephane Chauvier
Sharing the Earth If
the Earth is the home of the human species, it is not really its common home: the enduring history
of humanity is in fact much more that of the sharing of the Earth, its spaces and their resources,
between human groups by means of force or power.
The object of this seminar will be to understand philosophically what we will call pluripolitism and
pluriterritorialism which are characteristic of the human habitation of the Earth. “To understand
philosophically” means: not to consider the division of the human species into territorialized
political groups as a fact that goes without saying, but to see it as a contingent mode of human
habitation of the Earth, of which it is a question of seeking the raison d'être and to question the
value. We will therefore question in particular the link between pluripolitism and these different
names of human diversity that are the notions of peoples, nations, cultures, races, etc. We will
also question the link between political existence and territoriality. But, beyond understanding
what exists, we will seek to determine what could, or even should, exist. We will therefore wonder
if and why the Earth should be divided into areas of territorial sovereignty, what types of human
groups are entitled to formulate territorial claims, what prerogatives are and should be attached
to territorial sovereignty, what consequences these prerogatives can have on the regulation of
the use of natural resources as well as on human migrations, what status can and must be
reserved for the spaces over which humans transit more than they inhabit: the sea and
atmospheric and extra-atmospheric space. We will therefore propose, not an explanatory theory
of international relations, but a normative theory of the political habitation of the Earth by the
human species, a realistic utopia, according to the expression of Rawls, suitable for rationally
gauging contemporary international society. and, if necessary, to lucidly despair of its future.
Indicative bibliography: Raymond Aron, Peace and war between nations, 8th ed., Paris, Calmann-
Lévy, 1984; Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society, 4th ed., New York, Palgrave Macmillian, 2012;
Tamar Meisels, Territorial Rights, Berlin, Springer, 2009; John Rawls, The Law of Peoples,
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1999, trans. Fr. by B. Guillarme, Paris, La Découverte,
2006; Georges Scelle, Précis de droit des gens, Paris, Sirey, 1932, reed.
Paris, Dalloz, 2008; Carl Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth, trans. L. Deroche-Gurcel, Paris, PUF,
2001.
M1/ M2PHPO43/53: Social and political philosophy seminar. Resp. : Helene L'Heuillet
Emotions, affects and feelings in politics and ethics
That emotions are not simple interior movements but that they are at the source of political and
ethical actions is easily ascertainable. However, the question is also to know how emotions,
affects, feelings — even passions — come together to construct social and political reality. What
role does the imagination play in such anger or despair? What are the ethical and political effects
of shame or guilt? Is enthusiasm always fanatical? How to distinguish frustration or despair,
anger and resentment, envy, hatred, fear and terror, disgust etc. ? These are some of the issues
raised in this seminar. Far from perpetuating the classic opposition of passions and reason, we
will try to decline the emotional range brought into play in any relationship with others, close or
not.
The detailed program of sessions and readings will be communicated at the start of the school year.
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M1/2PHPO44/54 Political Philosophy Seminar: Resp. : Serge Audier

Semester 1 — Individual and community: birth and reformulations of a problematic In one of the
founding texts of German sociology, Ferdinand Tönnies contrasted the categories of
"community" (Gemeinschaft) and "society" (Gesellschaft) in a way that has permanently guided the
reflection. On the one hand, the community would designate a holistic vision of the ties of proximity and
reciprocity, on the other the society would express a recent vision of the contractual and interested
relationship between separated individuals. Since the 19th century, this type of approach has been
expressed in several different ways, from the liberal-conservative critique of individualism to the sociological
critique of anomie. In a sense, the great return of the idea of “community” in Anglophone debates, in
reaction to the liberal theses of John Rawls in The Theory of Justice, offered a new conceptualization to
this old debate.
One of the purposes of this seminar will be to recapture the philosophical stakes of this discussion and to
ask whether it has been posed correctly.
First bibliographic indications : Tönnies, Community and Society, PUF; Dumont, Homo Hierarchicus TEL-
Gallimard; Rawls, Theory of Justice, Threshold; Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Seuil; Sandel,
America's Discontent ; Walzer, Pluralism and Democracy, Spirit; Walzer, Spheres of Justice, Threshold;
Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity ; Bertens, Pourtois, Silvera, Liberals and communitarians
Semester 2 — Freedom and Domination in Contemporary Political Philosophy

The couple freedom-domination is as old as political thought. In the 20th century, however, it experienced
an original reactivation in a new context: the struggles for the political and social inclusion of subordinate
groups, concerns about the rise of a tutelary and authoritarian state, the challenge of totalitarianism. How
has contemporary political philosophy dealt with these questions? What are these most operative or relevant
responses?
Through several very different prisms – liberal anti-totalitarianism, new philosophies of democracy, the
Foucauldian conception of power, neo-republicanism, feminism, social ecology – we will examine how to
think today about the dialectic of freedom and domination.
First bibliographic indications : Sartre, Being and Nothingness, Gallimard; Berlin, Essays on Freedom,
Pocket; Foucault, Says and Writings, Gallimard; Foucault, Birth of Biopolitics, Seuil/Gallimard; Pettit,
Republicanism, Gallimard; Bourdieu, Pascalian Meditations, Seuil; Bookchin, A society to remake. Towards
an ecology of freedom, Ecosociety
M1/ M2PHPO45/55: Seminar on environmental ethics and technologies. Resp. : Michel

Puech
Semester 1— Ethics of the Commons 1: Environment and Economy
The notion of common goods and its ethical dimension; natural and man-made, human and non-human
environments; the systemic link between environmental ethics and economic ethics; climate, biodiversity,
overpopulation, energy, food, globalization: ethical dimensions. Reference authors: Arne NAESS, Elinor
OSTROM, Ivan ILLICH.
Syllabus and bibliography on Moodle in early September 2022.
Semester 2— Ethics of the Commons 2: Technology and Culture
The notion of common goods and its ethical dimension in the contemporary technological world; the
systemic link between technology and culture in the digital age; technophobic and backward-looking
resistances, cultural and ethical risks of control and communication technologies. Reference authors: Albert
BORGMANN, Lawrence LESSIG, Sherry TURKLE.
Syllabus and bibliography on Moodle beginning of January 2023
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M1/ M2PHPO46/56: Political philosophy seminar. Resp. : Pierre-Henri Tavoillot
Political art in the democratic age — A survey of democratic innovations.

The crisis of democracy invites an avid quest for innovations, more or less new moreover,
in the hope of regenerating it. The list is long: the return to grace of the drawing of lots,
electronic voting, suffrage by majority choice, consensus conferences, participatory budgets,
lowering of the electoral majority, civic tech, … so many ideas and practices that it is
important to examine in the light of an analysis of the reasons for this crisis.
Is it a crisis of the representation of the people? A crisis of power efficiency?
A crisis of the meaning of common life? It is clear that depending on the diagnosis, the
therapies considered may vary, or even conflict.
The aim of this year's seminar is to identify the major models for analyzing the democratic
crisis without being limited to France (semester 1) and to make a critical inventory of the
solutions proposed to resolve it (semester 2). In this perspective, the term survey is to be
taken literally: for each of the solutions, it will be a question of identifying the theoretical
references, of studying concretely (including from interviews carried out with the actors )
concrete applications and to establish a critical assessment. The history of political
philosophy and applied political philosophy will therefore be equally mobilized for this work.
This seminar is part of a study cycle on democratic political art inaugurated in 2013/2014.
A schedule of sessions and a bibliography will be submitted at the beginning of the year.
This seminar requires the active and diligent participation of registered students. Indeed, in
addition to the follow-up of the sessions, research work in small groups will be required. The
distribution of tasks and the constitution of working groups will be done during the first
meeting of each semester. Validation will be done both by submitting a mini-thesis integrated
into the collective work and by participating in a workshop where the research work will be
presented and discussed collectively. Students exempt from regular attendance must
contact me at the start of each semester.
Beginning of the seminar: Thursday, September 15, 2022 (to be confirmed)
Contact: phtavoillot@gmail.com
3.4. UE7 Methodology M1/2PHPO70

An important part of the work of the students during the two years of Master consists in establishing and
analyzing bibliographies of articles or works in connection with the research work they have to conduct. It is
therefore essential for them to know the documentary and bibliographical tools they can use as well as the
fundamental rules for presenting bibliographical references.
The methodology sessions of the first semester will be mainly devoted to a presentation of these tools
and these rules, with the support of Aurore-Marie Guillaume, head of the UFR library. As an extension of
these sessions, students will have the opportunity
to register for one of the library visit sessions (Sorbonne Interuniversity Library, National Library of France,
etc.) during which they will be able to benefit from practical advice for conducting their research work.
The other methodology sessions, which will be scheduled for the second semester, will be devoted to
the methodology of research work, the mini-dissertations in the first place, but also and above all the main
M2 research dissertation, the theme of which must be chosen at the end of the year of M1. Beyond general
methodological advice, the sessions will aim to guide students in the choice of the theme of their M2 thesis
and in the research, in particular bibliographical, prior to its formulation.
The calendar of all methodology sessions will be distributed at the start of the school year.
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4. THE YEAR OF MASTER 2

The acquisition of specialized skills continues and is reinforced in the year of Master 2, where it
leads to the production of a first real research work: the Master's thesis. This thesis is at the heart of
the organization and evaluation of the Master 2 year: students wishing to enroll in a thesis at Sorbonne
University must have obtained their Master 2 with an overall average of at least 14 out of 20 .
In addition to writing the thesis (4.1.), the year of M2 includes the follow-up of two research training
seminars (4.2.) and two common core tutorials (4.3.) as well as participation in seminar sessions
common of the specialty (4.4.).
4.1. Research dissertation (UE5)

The Master 2 thesis can be prepared under the supervision of any teacher-researcher (professor
or lecturer) in the Master's specialty or, if the subject requires it, in another specialty of the Master's
in Philosophy.
Each student makes an appointment with the professor or the lecturer to whom he wishes to
propose the direction of his thesis: the title of the thesis, its problematic, its plan, its bibliographic
base are determined in agreement with the research director.
F At the end of the first semester, the student must submit to his research director a detailed
presentation of the progress of his work, the form and format of which are determined in agreement
with the research director and which is subject to an intermediate assessment (7 ECTS).
A document presenting the expectations of the Master 2 dissertation will be placed on the platform
Moodle (section “Master information in political philosophy and ethics”).
4.2. Research training seminars (UE1 & UE2)

The student chooses two seminars.
The first (UE1) is necessarily that provided by the professor or lecturer who directs his research
dissertation. If the thesis director does not provide a seminar, he will indicate to the student which
seminar to follow. There is no obligation for the dissertation subject to correspond to the theme of the
research director's seminar.
The second seminar (UE2) is chosen from the list of specialty seminars below.
M3/ M4PHP011/21: Moral and political philosophy seminar. Resp. : Philippe Audegean
Tolerance (17th -18th centuries)

The idea of tolerance was born of the confessional conflicts which shook Christianity at the
dawn of modern times. The seminar will undertake to reconstruct the historical origin and
the philosophical meaning of this idea, based on the two great founding texts of Bayle and
Locke – probably both written in the Netherlands in 1686. It will also aim to question the
complex heritage of this idea by reflecting on the later principle of secularism.
How can a moral virtue directly stemming from political considerations nevertheless affirm
the separation of politics and morality? What is the relationship between the idea of tolerance
with the broader notion of secularization? Is the principle of tolerance capable, without
denying itself, of recognizing intolerance as intolerable? Is it based on the inalienable rights
of conscience, as they imply freedom of belief and worship? Is tolerance a fundamental
human right? Or is it a virtue required by the very definition of political authority, or even by
a certain form of reason of state, which
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advise the sovereign and the legislator against having recourse to coercion in matters of religious faith?
Bibliography
1- Texts
o BAYLE Pierre, Philosophical commentary on these words of Jesus Christ: “Force them to enter ”.
Recommended edition: Tolerance. Philosophical Commentary, ed. Jean-Michel Gros, Paris,
Champion, 2014.
o Supplement to the Philosophical Commentary, ed. Martine Pécharman, in Lessay Franck,
Rogers John and Zarka Yves Charles (ed.), The philosophical foundations of tolerance
in France and England in the 17th century, volume 3, Paris, PUF, 2002.
o Thoughts on atheism, ed. Julie Bloch, Paris, Desjonquères, 2004.

o LOCKE John, Epistola de tolerantia / A Letter Concerning Toleration. Recommended French edition:
Letter on tolerance and other texts, translated from English by Jean Le Clerc and Jean-Fabien Spitz,
ed. Jean-Fabien Spitz, Paris, GF-Flammarion, 1992.
2- Studies
a) On the idea of tolerance
o Christin Olivier, The Peace of Religion. The empowerment of political reason in
XVIth century, Paris, Seuil, 1997.
o Lessay Franck, Rogers John and Zarka Yves Charles (ed.), The Philosophical Foundations of
Tolerance in France and England in the 17th Century, Volume 1: Studies, Paris, PUF, 2002.
b) On Bayle
o Gros Jean-Michel, “Meaning and limits of the theory of tolerance in Pierre Bayle”, in Olivier Abel and
Pierre-François Moreau (eds.), Pierre Bayle: faith in doubt, Geneva, Labor et Fides, 1995 , p. 65-86.
o Labrousse Élisabeth, “Note on the conception of tolerance in the 18th century”,

in Notes on Bayle, Paris, Vrin, 1987, p. 111-123
o "Note on the theory of tolerance in Pierre Bayle", ibid., p. 173-176.
o Mori Gianluca, “Consciousness and tolerance”, in Bayle philosopher, Paris, Champion,
1999, p. 273-320.
c) On Locke
o MARSHALL John, John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture. Religious Intolerance and
Arguments for Religious Toleration in Early Modern and Early Enlightenment Europe, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2006.
o SAADA Julie, “John Locke and liberal tolerance”, in Gaetan Clavien, François
Dermange and William Ossipow (eds.), Racism, liberalism and the limits of the tolerable, Geneva/
Paris, Georg, 2003, p. 13-40.
o SPITZ Jean-Fabien, “Some difficulties of the Lockian theory of tolerance”, in Franck Lessay, John
Rogers and Yves Charles Zarka (eds.), The Philosophical Foundations of Tolerance in France and
England in the Seventeenth Century, Volume 1 : Studies, Paris, PUF, 2002, p. 114-150.
d) Contemporary approaches
o BALIBAR Étienne, “Dissonances in secularism”, Mouvements, 2004/3, n° 33-34, p. 148-
161.
o Universals, Paris, Galilee, 2016.
o DILHAC Marc-Antoine, Tolerance, a risk for democracy? Theory of a political imperative, Paris, Vrin,
2014.
o LABORDE Cécile, Liberalism's Religion, Harvard, Harvard University Press, 2017.
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o LEITER Brian, Why Tolerate Religion? (2013). English translation: Why tolerate religion? A
philosophical and legal investigation, translated from English by Louis
Muskens, Geneva, Markus Haller, 2014.
o NUSSBAUM Martha, The New Religious Intolerance. Overcoming the Politics of Fears in an
Anxious Age (2012). English translation: Religions facing intolerance. Overcoming the politics
of fear, translated from English by Nathalie Ferron, Paris, Climats, 2013.
o WALZER Michael, On Toleration (1997). English translation: Treaty on Tolerance,
translated from English by Chaïm Hutner, Paris, Gallimard, 1998.
M3/ M4PHPO12/22: Moral philosophy seminar. Resp. : Stephane Chauvier

Morals of sacrifice: the rationing of benefits
There may be tragic situations that force us to choose which lives to save or rescue and which
lives to abandon. But there are also more ordinary situations where, for lack of sufficient resources,
a society must decide which lives will be rescued first and which others will not, or only later.
In situations of this type, where we are forced to reserve our benefits or our help for a few, when
all need it, is the only morally acceptable rule of choice to toss a coin and let Fate decide? Can we,
on the contrary, give the lives in contention different values and choose on this basis which lives
we must reserve our benefits or allocate them in priority?
As this seminar is open to students on the “medical humanities” course in addition to those on the
“politics and ethics” course, we will address this issue by focusing on the rationing of health care in
contemporary societies. We will see, however, that the various rules of choice that can be
considered in sacrificial situations relating to health have a philosophical significance that goes
beyond the mere register of the allocation of health care.
Introductory bibliography: Bognar (Greg) & Hirose (Iwao), The Ethics of Health Care Rationing: An
Introduction, London, Routledge, 2014; Broome (John), Weighing Lives, Oxford, Oxford UP, 2004;
Taurek (John), “Should the Numbers Count? », Philosophy and Public Affairs, 6(4), 1977, p.
293-316.
M3/ M4PHPO13/23: Social and political philosophy seminar. Resp. : Helene L'Heuillet
Thinking about lifestyles
If the questioning of ways of life is at the heart of contemporary ethics, even in the rereading of the
Ancients, it is because life is not only lived but also judged.
The appreciation of the modalities of individual and collective life allows not only to identify what is
imposed on us in an unthinking way, but also to draw the contours of a space of possible
modification of the common and singular existence. Since this task cannot be carried out without
taking social experience into account, various aspects of contemporary lifestyles will be considered:
acceleration, transformations of urbanization, leisure and overactivity, tyranny of intimacy or
overexposure of the self. But we will also leave room for a normative reflection on the transformation
of lifestyles, and on philosophical life.
The detailed program of sessions and readings will be communicated at the start of the school year.
M3/ M4PHPO14/24: Philosophy of law seminar. Resp. : Jean-Cassien Billier

Semester 1 — The promises of constitutionalism
Constitutionalism, associated with the political theories of John Locke and the founders of the
American republic, refers to a whole galaxy of ideas which, according to the legal philosopher
Michel Troper, can be grouped under three distinct meanings: constitutionalism
in the broad sense, which corresponds to the general idea that in any state there must be a
constitution to prevent despotism; constitutionalism in the strict sense, which adds that this
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constitution is itself based on a few principles supposedly capable of producing the desired effect,
namely making despotism impossible, or even guaranteeing political freedom, which can be identified
as being, in particular, the separation of powers, the distinction between constituent power and
constituted powers, the principle of representative government, or even, optionally, the institution of a
constitutional review; finally, constitutionalism in the very strict sense, corresponding to the idea that the
intended goal can only be achieved if among these principles there is a mandatory review of
constitutionality. The seminar will question (1) the origin and the progressive enrichment of the concept
of constitutionalism, (2) the relationship it maintains to written but also unwritten constitutions, as well as
the question of whether it is still relevant to identifying the constitution with constitutional law, (3) the
question of the interpretation of the constitution, between "originalism" and theories of the "living
constitution", (5) the substantive debate on the democratic legitimacy of constitutionalism (particularly
within of American liberal and republican political thought: Ronald Dworkin, Frank Michelman, Bruce
Ackerman, John Rawls), (6) the debate on the optimal form (if there is one) that constitutional justice
should take within a Democratic and liberal state, including a philosophical examination of French
constitutional justice, in particular since the introduction of the Priority question of constitutionality, (7)
the theories of the plasticity and the extension of the cons titutionalism, notably that of “constitutional
theocracy”, (7) the arguments of the main recent or contemporary detractors of constitutionalism.
Bibliography:
In French :
o Balkin, Jack M., American Constitutionalism. Beyond the original Constitution and the Living
Constitution, Paris, Dalloz, Institut Michel Villey, 2016.
o Beaud, Olivier, The Power of the State, Paris, PUF, 1994.
o Bouchard, Kevin, Constitutionalism and Common Law in Anglo Legal Thought
American, Paris, Garnier, 2021.
o Delmas-Martt, Mireille, The relative and the universal, Paris, Seuil, 2004.
o Hennette-Vauchez, Stéphanie, and Sorel Jean-Marc (eds.), Have human rights constitutionalized the
world? Brussels, Noisy, 2011
o Tierney, Brian, Religion and Law in the Development of Constitutional Thought, Paris, PUF, 1993
(English original: 1982)
o Troper, Michel, For a legal theory of the State, Paris, PUF, 1994; Law and necessity, Paris, PUF, 2011.
o Vlachogiannis, Apostolos, The Living Constitution. State Supreme Court Justices

United and the Constitution, Paris, Garnier, 2014.
In English: o
Ackerman, Bruce, We The People: Foundations, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University
Press, 1991.
o We The People 2: Transformations, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press,
1998.
o "The Living Constitution", Harvard Law Review, vol. 120, 2007, p. 1737, [Available online].
o Alexy, Robert, A Theory of Constitutional Rights, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002.
o Alexander, Larry (ed.), Constitutionalism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
o Barber, NW, The Constitutional State, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.
o Bellamy, R., Political Constitutionalism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
o Dworkin, Ronald, Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution,
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1996.
o Hart, HLA, The Concept of Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 19611 , 19942 .
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o Hirschl, Ran, Constitutional Theocracy, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press,

2010.
o Michelman, Frank, "Constitutional Authorship", in L. Alexander (ed.), Constitutionalism,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
o Constitutional Essentials: On the Constitutional Theory of Political Liberalism,
New York, Oxford University Press, 2022.
o Stone Sweet, Alec, Governing with Judges. Constitutional Politics in Europe, Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 2010.
o Strauss, David, The Living Constitution, New York, Oxford University Press, 2010.
o Sunstein, Cass, Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, New York, Oxford University
Press, 1996.
o Tushnet, Mark, Red, White and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law,
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1988.
o Taking the Constitution Away From the Courts, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University
Press, 1999.
o Waldron, Jeremy, The Dignity of Legislation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1999.
o Law and Disagreement, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.
o "The Core of the Case Against Judicial Review", Yale Law Journal, vol. 115, 2006,
p. 1346-1406.
Semester 2 — Is international law law?

Is the “rebus sic stantibus” (“things remaining thus”) clause the watchword of international law? In
other words, is international law only a simple law of coordination between States not recognizing
any entity superior to themselves and reserving the permanent right to emancipate themselves
from the treaties they have -even signed, as soon as they consider that the context in which they
concluded them and their interests have changed? But if international law only effectively exists
through the sovereignty of States and if its legality remains enclosed in the sovereignty of States,
how could it be designated as a normative entity in its own right? In the extreme, is international
law really law?
If, on the contrary, international law exists well beyond the treaties by which States bind each other
mutually, what can its nature be? Is it really essential, for example,
to make it derive from the idea of a natural right that could be invoked against the will of States?
Finally, is international law a real force for regulating, even transforming, relations between States?
Can it promote peace through law, or is it continually overwhelmed and refuted by the possibility of
war? The seminar will seek to examine (1) some of the fundamental historical sources of the
philosophy of international law, (2) the main philosophical controversies on the nature and
legitimacy of international law upstream and downstream of the controversy between Hans Kelsen
and Carl Schmitt, focusing particularly on the analyzes of HLA Hart (the analyzes of Allen Buchanan,
Thomas Christiano and Philip Pettit will be studied in particular in Samantha Besson and John
Tasioulas (dir), 2010, The Philosophy of International Law), (3) the question of the articulation of
international law with fundamental human rights (Joseph Raz), (5) the question of international
criminal law, (6) the philosophical issues of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), (7) the international
law of war.
Bibliography:
In French :
o Pasquier, Dominique, From Geneva to Nuremberg. Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and the law
international, Paris, Garnier, 2012.
o Pratt, Valéry, Nuremberg, human rights, cosmopolitanism, Lormont, The edge of
water, 2018.
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In English :
o Besson, Samantha and John Tasioulas (eds.), The Philosophy of International Law,
Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 2010.
o Bingham, Thomas Henry, The Rule of Law, London, Allen Lane, 2010.
o Cavallar, Georg, Imperfect Cosmopolitism. Studies in the History of International Legal Theory
and Cosmopolitan Ideas, Cardiff, University of Walles Press, 2011. 20123
o Hart, Herbert LA, The Concept of Law, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 19611 , .
o Lefkowitz, David, Philosophy and International Law: A Critical Introduction, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2020.
o May, Larry, Crimes against Humanity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
o War Crimes and Just War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
o Aggression and Crimes against Peace, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2008.
o After War Ends: A Philosophical Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2012.
o Limiting Leviathan: Hobbes on Law and International Affairs, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2013.
M3/ M4PHPO15/25: Political philosophy seminar. Resp. : Pierre-Henri Tavoillot

The ethical challenges of the democratic age — How is a common life (still) possible?
Ethics does not have morals. On the one hand, we hear about the decline of values, the loss of
landmarks, the weakening of norms; on the other hand, we see the flourishing in all areas, even
the most unexpected, of charters, committees, ethical councils. On the one hand, the need to
moralize political life, capitalism, relations not only between humans, but also between humans
and nature. On the other hand, fear at the rise of a moral order, even moralizing, in the process
of being reconstituted. How to think the place of morality in the democratic age? Is there excess
or shortage in this area?
This uncertainty poses a crucial problem on what is agreed to call, perhaps a little too vaguely,
“living together”. Indeed, contemporary individualism, which structures contemporary ethics,
produces a destabilizing effect on the collective: cult of identities, extension of rights, community
withdrawal, enlargement of the sphere of justice and cultural demands. But, on the other hand,
other types of links are being invented and structured: maintenance of intergenerational relations,
new sociabilities, collective mobilizations. Because ethics is always a relationship to the other,
the question of living together is its keystone. Do we (still) want to live together?
A schedule of sessions and a bibliography will be submitted at the beginning of the year. This
seminar requires the active and diligent participation of registered students. Indeed, in addition
to the follow-up of the sessions, research work in small groups will be required. The distribution
of tasks and the constitution of working groups will be done during the first meeting of each
semester. Validation will be done both by submitting a mini-thesis integrated into the collective
work and by participating in a workshop where the research work will be presented and discussed
collectively. Students exempt from regular attendance must contact me at the start of each
semester.
Beginning of the seminar: Thursday, September 22, 2020 (to be confirmed)
Contact: phtavoillot@gmail.com
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4.3. Common trunk tutorials

The M2 common core lessons consist of two tutorials, a text reading tutorial to be chosen
between two groups of tutorials, and a specialized tutorial, also to be chosen between two
TD groups.
4.3.1. Tutorial on reading texts (UE3)
Students have the choice between two tutorial groups, a group more oriented towards the reading
of classic texts, provided in both semesters by Serge Audier, and a group more oriented towards
reading of contemporary texts, provided in the first semester by Hélène L'Heuillet and in the second
semester by Pierre-Henri Tavoillot.
M3/4PHPO30: group 1
Both semesters: Serge Audier
Semester 1 — The anthropological foundations of morality: interest, usefulness,
duty Our investigation will approach the questions of morality from the angle of the conceptions
of man, following a course going back to antiquity up to the debates of the 18th century. Moral
philosophies are indeed inseparable from discourse on the nature of man –
physical, psychological and metaphysical – and on the foundations of social order. In a classic
study, The Passions and Interests, Albert Hirschman thus underlined the extent to which a new
definition of man and, correlatively, an unprecedented conception of the social bond underpinned
the morals of interest at the heart of the advent of political economy. This interpretative
framework can be put to the test by further analyzing the controversies and disagreements of
the philosophers of the Enlightenment on these issues.
First bibliographic indications: Plato, La République, TEL-Gallimard; Aristotle, Politics, Vrin;
Epicurus, letters and maxims, PUF; The Stoics, TEL-Gallimard; Thomas More, Utopia, GF;
Hobbes, Leviathan, Gallimard; Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, Vrin; Helvétius, On the
Spirit, Fayard; Smith, The Wealth of Nations, GF; Jeremy Bentham, Introduction to Principles
of Morals and Legislation, Vrin; Kant, Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals, GF; John Stuart
Mill, Utilitarianism, GF
Semester 2 — Sociology, socialism, ecology in the 19th century
The 19th century, dominated by the fallout from the French Revolution and the advent of
industrial capitalism, opened a new phase in political thought. We are still partly the heirs of
what is being played out at the moment: from the critique of exploitation to the analysis of social
atomization, passing through the first reflections on the damage caused by industry, many
themes fundamentals of contemporary thought have already been laid down. The object of this
research will be to grasp the coherence and the divergences of this moment, examining the
argumentative lines of the reinvention of liberalism, the birth of socialism and communism, the
affirmation of sociology and the premises of the 'ecology.
First bibliographical indications : Rousseau, Speech on the origin and the bases of the inequality
among the men, GF; Ferguson, History of Civil Society, PUF; Gracchus Babeuf, The Plebeians'
Manifesto, One Thousand and One Nights; Lamennais, Modern Slavery, The Stowaway; Mill,
Principles of Political Economy, Les Belles Lettres; Mill, Socialism, Les Belles Lettres; Marx,
Capital, Gallimard; Kropotkin, Mutual Aid. A factor of evolution, Ecosociety
M3/M4PHPO30: group 2
First semester: Hélène L'Heuillet
Wars, destruction and insecurity
The course of this semester will lead us initially to a study of the use of terror as a form of war
supported by texts by Raymond Aron and Michael
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Walzer, to a reflection on nihilism, with Leo Strauss. In a second moment, we will evoke other figures
of destruction, such as that of nature, from Hans Jonas, to question ourselves on the power of
technology with Jacques Ellul and Wolfgang Sofsky.
We will end with an analysis of what Ulrich Beck calls “the risk society”.
Second semester: Pierre-Henri Tavoillot

Definitions and borders of the human: it will be in this TD, through the examination of some
contemporary debates, to study the topicality of the long quarrel of humanism. Here are some
themes that will be discussed: How to define the human? What relationship to the animal? The
question of the dignity of the person; the natural foundations of ethics; neuroethics; generic identity…
The work will be done on the basis of a corpus of texts defined at the beginning of the semester.
4.3.2. Specialized tutorial (UE4)
Students choose one of the following two tutorial groups:
M3/M4PHPO41: Theories of recognition

In charge of the TD: Hugo Lorgeril
Semester 1—the classic texts the philosophy of recognition “Pride
keeps us from such a natural possession in the midst of our miseries, error, etc. We still lose our
lives with joy, as long as we talk about it” (Pascal, Pensées, fr. 31-37).
We will examine in this tutorial the classic approaches to the passions linked to recognition, starting
from the problem of self-love in the 17th and 18th centuries (Pascal, Nicole, Rousseau), examining
the contribution of thinkers of sympathy (Hutcheson , Hume, Smith) and the first architects of a
philosophy of recognition (Fichte, Hegel). Throughout these readings, it will be a question of
identifying the different possible ways of interpreting the sensitivity of people to the opinion of others
and to identify their political and moral significance.
Texts studied during the semester:
DESCARTES, Treatise on the Passions, (1649), GF, 1998; PASCAL, Speech on religion and on
some other subjects, Fayard, 1993; NICOLE, Moral Essays, PUF, 1999; ROUSSEAU, Discourse on
the origin and the foundation of inequality among men, (1755), GF, 2011; HUTCHESON, Moral
system, (1730), Vrin, 2016; HUME, Treatise on Human Nature, II, (1739), GF, 2015; SMITH, Theory
of Moral Sentiments, PUF, 2014; HEGEL, Principles of the philosophy of law, (1820) Gallimard,
1989.
Introductory work:
HONNETH, La Reconnaissance: European History of an Idea, (tr. Rusch), Gallimard, NRF, 2012
Semester 2: contemporary texts on the philosophy of recognition “Self-esteem

(or respect) is perhaps the most important primary good” (Rawls, Théorie de la justice, Seuil,
1971). The theme of recognition, whose philosophical history begins, according to Axel Honneth, in
the 17th century, occupies a central place in contemporary political debate and struggles. During
this tutorial, from the study of some important contemporary texts, we will try to highlight the
philosophical scope of these issues, to determine the relationship between demands for redistribution
and demands for recognition, and to compare the approaches possibilities of the idea of public
recognition policy.
Texts studied during the semester:

SARTRE, Reflections on the Jewish question, (1946), Folio, 1985; FANON, Black skin, white masks,
(1952), Seuil, 2015; RAWLS, Theory of Justice (1970), Threshold, 1987;
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WALZER, Spheres of justice, (1983), Threshold, 2013; FRASER, What is social

justice? Redistribution or recognition, Discovery, 2005; HONNETH, The struggle
for recognition, (1993), Folio, 2013; RENAULT, The experience of injustice, The
discovery, 2004; BOURDIEU, Pascalian Meditations, Seuil, 1995.
M3/M4PHPO44: Philosophy of History

In charge of the TD: Thomas Aït Kaci
During this tutorial, it will be a question of identifying certain forms of encroachment between two regimes
of discourse on history that we are accustomed to distinguishing, with on the one hand the philosophy of
history (Geschichte) and the other the epistemology of historical science (Historie). We will read a few
passages testifying to this intricacy in four thinkers who not only took up texts and historical archives as
the essential source of their work, but who in turn did the work of historians: Nietzsche, appointed in
1869 professor of classical philology at the University of Basel, and Foucault, who began in the 1960s
“the history of a certain way of representing history” (semester 1); Benjamin, devoting himself during the
1930s to the project of a “prehistory of modernity” through the study of Paris in the 19th century, and
Machiavelli, who in 1520 became official historiographer of Florence (semester 2). We will see how their
respective criticisms of a certain type of historical narrative were linked to the assertion of the political,
strategic, even vital virtue of historiography. From there, we will seek to determine how their ways of
thinking and writing history in turn affected their own practice of philosophy, which came, according to
one of these four authors, "to mean for us only the widest extension of the notion of ''history'' (History) »
(Nietzsche, Posthumous Fragments, 1885, 38 [14]).

To prepare for the course, one can read beforehand Chapter XXV of The Prince (Machiavelli), the
second of Untimely Considerations (Nietzsche), the theses On the concept of history
(Benjamin), and the Introduction to The Archeology of Knowledge (Foucault). References to secondary
literature will be given at the start of the academic year.
Selected bibliography :
o BENJAMIN, W., Paris, capital of the 19th century. The Book of Passages, trans. Fr. J. Lacoste, Paris, Le
Cerf, 1997, Bundle “N”. o BENJAMIN, W., The Raconteur, trans. Fr. S. Muller, Paris, Circé, 2014. o
BENJAMIN, W., On the concept of history, trans. Fr. M. de Gandillac reviewed by P. Rusch, in
Works III, Paris, Gallimard, 2000.

o FOUCAULT, M., "On the ways of writing history", included in Dits et Écrits I, 1954-1975,
Paris, Gallimard, 2001, text n°48.
o FOUCAULT, M., The Archeology of Knowledge, Paris, Gallimard, 1969. o
FOUCAULT, M., "Nietzsche, genealogy, history", included in Dits et Écrits I, 1954-
1975, op. cit., text no. 84.
o MACHIAVEL, N., The Prince, trans. Fr. J.-L. Fournel and J.-C. Zancarini, Paris, PUF, 2014.
o MACHIAVEL, N., Discourse on the first decade of Livy, trans. Fr. A. Fontana and X.
Tabet, Paris, Gallimard, 2004.
o MACHIAVEL, N., History of Florence, trans. Fr. C. Bec, in Works, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1996.
o NIETZSCHE, F., The Birth of Tragedy, trans. Fr. Ph. Lacoue-Labarthe, in Works
complete philosophies, I*, Paris, Gallimard, 1977.
o NIETZSCHE, F., On the usefulness and disadvantages of history for life, trans. Fr. P. Rusch, in Complete
Philosophical Works, II*, Untimely Considerations I and II, Paris, Gallimard, 1990.
o NIETZSCHE, F., The Genealogy of Morality, trans. Fr. P. Wotling, Paris, The Pocket Book,
2000.
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4.4. Joint research seminar UE6 M3/4PHPO60

The Master II training is completed by six sessions, intended for all M2 students, aimed at giving them an
overview of advanced research in political philosophy or ethics. Each session is organized around the presentation
of a researcher who presents an aspect of his work and offers it for discussion. The Master's in Political Philosophy
and Ethics is indeed a research master's, one of whose outlets is the preparation of a doctoral thesis under the
supervision of a professor or an HDR lecturer, within the framework of a research team. The sessions organized
within the framework of UE6 therefore aim to enable Master 2 students to understand the requirements of research
in political philosophy and ethics. Participation in these sessions is an integral part of the training, the validation of
the EU is based on a control of the attendance of the students.
ÿ The six sessions for the year 2022-2023 will take place on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Maison de la
Recherche, 28 rue Serpente, Georges Molinié amphitheater (ground floor), according to the following schedule. The
program of sessions, currently being drawn up, will be completed and distributed at the start of the school year.
on the MOODLE page of the Master: •
Tuesday, November 15: Etienne Balibar
• Tuesday December 6 •
Tuesday January 31: Martin Rueff
• Tuesday 21 February
• Tuesday 28 March: Bruno Bernardi
• Tuesday April 18
5. Study days and conferences

The Master's political philosophy and ethics training is supported by the Sorbonne University/CNRS “Sciences,
Norms and Democracy” joint research unit (UMR 8011), dir.
Philippe Audegean, which includes a philosophy of science component and a political philosophy and ethics
component.
This research team organizes, throughout the year, study days and conferences, announced by posting and on
the UMR website (https://snd.sorbonne-universite.fr) .
Attending or even participating in these scientific events is an integral part of the training of Master's students.
6. Professional integration of students

It is essential, from the first year of the Master, that students reflect on their future after the Master. Various paths
are possible, some of which begin within the Master's program itself. Recognizing oneself in one or other of these
paths can in any case affect certain choices in the training and work corresponding to the Master's years, in particular
concerning the choice of the main thesis of M2. This brochure is limited to identifying three of these paths, among
others, offered by the UFR of Philosophy to students from the specialty of Political Philosophy and Ethics.
A. Like all the other specialties of the Master of Philosophy, the specialty "Political Philosophy and Ethics"
provides students with the deepening of their philosophical culture necessary for preparation for recruitment
competitions for secondary education
(aggregation and Capes). Students considering going down this path should bear in mind
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account, from their master's years, in the choice of this or that of their seminars (internal or
external to the specialty) and in the choice of the subject of their main thesis (M2).
B. This path of recruitment competitions, to which the UFR devotes a very special effort,
cannot however be the only prospect of professional integration that students can consider. At
the end of the Master 1, students interested in careers in digital publishing can also apply for
the professional master's "Editorial advice and management of digitized knowledge", which is
a professional specialty internal to the Master of Philosophy and which ensures in one year
(M2) to the selected students (18 students on average) directly professionalizing training.
Information on this training can be found here: http://master-conseil-edito.paris-sorbonne.fr
C. Since 2011-2012 there has also been a Master's in training for business professions,
which is only accessible on file after a full Master's (M1&2) on a professionalization contract.
The responsibility of this Master is ensured by Pierre-Henri Tavoillot
(phtavoillot@gmail.com).
7. International exchanges
The training course offered by the Master's specialty "Political Philosophy and Ethics"
strongly encourages students to plan, during their Master's years, at least one semester of
study abroad. However, it is strongly recommended that students interested in such an
approach consider it rather in M2 than in M1, because the year of M1, the heaviest in teaching,
is a year of upgrading and specialization in political philosophy. and in ethics, whereas the M2
year, centered on the production of the research dissertation, is much better suited to remote
monitoring by the dissertation supervisor.
For any information on ERASMUS and non-ERASMUS exchanges, contact the head of
international exchanges for the UFR, jean Baptiste FOURNIER, jean baptiste.fournier@sorbonne-
universite.fr
See also, for the list of proposed destinations, the page of the Faculty of Letters website:
http://lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/formation/university-partnerships
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Master's degree "Philosophy"

Head of course Mr.

1. ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION OF TRAINING............................................... ................................... 4

1. 1. ADMINISTRATIVE REGISTRATION ............................................... .................................................. .................................................. ....4

1.2. PEDAGOGICAL REGISTRATIONS ............................................... .................................................. .................................................. ....4

1. 3. KNOWLEDGE CHECKS ............................................... .................................................. .................................................. ...4

1.4. ENTRY DATES .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...................6

1.5. CONTACTS.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...................................6

2. GENERAL PRESENTATION.................................................. .................................................. ........................................ 7

2.1. TRAINING OBJECTIVES .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .....7 2.2.

TRAINING AND RESEARCH THEMES TEAM OF TEACHERS-RESEARCHERS....................................................7

2. 3. TEACHING MODELS, ECTS CREDITS /COEFFICIENTS............................................... ...............................................8

3- THE YEAR OF MASTER 1.................................................. .................................................. ..............................................10

3.1. COMMON TRUNK COURSE (UE 1)............................................. .................................................. ..............................................10

3.1.1.M1/2PHPO13Common core courseI........................................... .................................................. ....................... 10

3.1.2.M1/2PHPO14CoursedetronccommonII........................................... .................................................. ..................... 11

3.1.3.M1/2PHPO15Common core courseIII........................................... .................................................. ................... 12

3.2. Tutorials (UE2&UE3).............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .......................13

3.2.1.TD1:politicalphilosophy(UE2)........................................ .................................................. ........................................... 13

M1PHPO21TD1group2:HélèneL'Heuillet(semester 1)....................................... .................................................. .......14

M2PHPO21TD1groupe2:HugoLorgeril(semester2)............................................ .................................................. ............14

3.2.2.TD2:moralphilosophy(UE3)........................................ .................................................. ........................................ 14

M1/2PHPO31TD2groupe1:Jean-BaptisteJuillard (1st and 2nd semesters) ..................................... .................................14

M1/2PHPO31TD2groupe2: OphélieDesmons (1st and 2nd semesters)....................................... ...........................................16

3.3. RESEARCH TRAINING SEMINARS (UE4, UE5 & UE6)............................................ ...........................................16

M1/ M2PHPO41/51: Penal philosophy seminar. Resp. :Philippe Audegean........................................... 17

M1/ M2PHPO42/52: International Relations Philosophy Seminar.Resp. :Stephane Chauvier

.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ................. 18

M1/2PHPO44/54 Political Philosophy Seminar: Resp. :Serge Audier................................................ ........ 19

M1/ M2PHPO45/55: Seminar in environmental ethics and technologies. Resp. :MichelPuech. 19

M1/ M2PHPO46/56: Seminar in political philosophy. Resp. :Pierre-HenriTavoillot ............................... 20

3.4. UE7 METHODOLOGY M1/2PHPO70.................................................. .................................................. ..................................20

4. THE YEAR OF MASTER'S 2 .............................. .................................................. ..............................................21

4.1. RESEARCH MEMORY ( UE5 ).............................................. .................................................. ...............................................21

4.2. RESEARCH TRAINING SEMINARS (UE1 & UE2).............................................. ................................................21

M3/ M4PHP011/21: Seminar in moral and political philosophy. Resp. :PhilippeAudegean.................. 21

M3/ M4PHPO12/22: Seminar in moral philosophy. Resp. :Stephane Chauvier.............................................. 23

M3/ M4PHPO14/24: Law Philosophy Seminar.Resp. :Jean-CassienBillier ....................................... 23

M3/ M4PHPO15/25: Seminar in political philosophy. Resp. :Pierre-HenriTavoillot ............................... 26

4.3. TD DETRONC COMMON.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .............27

4.3.1.Tutorialsforreadingtexts(UE3)............................................. .................................................. .............................................. 27

M3/4PHPO30:group1 .............................................. .................................................. .................................................. ........................27

M3/M4PHPO30:group2 .............. .................................................. .................................................. .............................................27

4.3.2. Specialized TD (UE4).............................................. .................................................. .................................................. ........... 28

M3/M4PHPO41: Recognition theories .................................................. .................................................. ............................28

M3/M4PHPO44:Philosophyofhistory........................................... .................................................. ........................................29

4.4. COMMONRESEARCH SEMINAR UE6 M3/4PHPO60.................................................. .................................................. ..30

5. STUDY DAYS AND SYMPOSIUMS ............................................... .................................................. .....................30

6. PROFESSIONAL INSERTION OF STUDENTS.................................................. .............................................30

7.INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES.................................................. .................................................. ..............................31

1. ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION OF TRAINING

1.2. Educational registrations

Foreign students enrolled in exchange programs, in particular ERASMUS, are

Master 2 dissertation delivery dates

Precision concerning the seminars

1.4. Back-to-school dates

Head of the specialty : Stéphane Chauvier (stephane.chauvier@sorbonne-université.fr).

MOODLE platform and student information

2.2. Teacher-researcher training team and research topics

Michel PUECH (michel.puech@sorbonne-universite.fr) : philosophy and ethics of

ATER & contractual doctoral students