Louis Rougier

Louis Rougier (1889-1982) is a French academic, professor of philosophy at the University of Besancon and which studied the history of the religions, philosophy, epistemology, linguistics, the economy, constitutional law.

Biography

It is initially burning opposing liberal ideas and Capitalisme then becomes finally one of the promoters of the Libéralisme. It organized thus the Colloque Walter Lippmann in 1938, a gathering of intellectuals eager to promote the liberal ideas.

Deeply antichrétien, it will write much against Christianity, in particular in Celse or the conflict of ancient civilization and primitive Christianity where it takes again a work of the 2nd century after JC which violently tackles the group then incipient from the Christians.

Compromised during the mode of Vichy, it publishes post-war period of the anti-gaullistes books, like the assessment of the gaullism . Near to the neo-petainists mediums, he is member of the management committee of Association for the defense of the memory of the Pétain marshal as of his creation in 1951

He exerted a great influence on the New Line, especially because of his antichristianism ever contradicted, and will be even one of the thinking heads of the GREECE of Alain de Benoist.

Quotations

“liberalism poses limits with the intervention of the State by the recognition of the civil rights, moderates the executive power by legislative control and the judicial power, protects the individual against the abuses from the public power, admits the representation of the minorities and the rights of the opposition, holds the large open string where clash, under the supervision of the law, the competitions individual and tie to the social solidarities…” the economic Mystics, Paris, Librairie of Médicis, 1938, p. 15.
“the moral drama of our time, it is the blindness of the men of the left who dream of a political democracy and of an economic planning without understanding that planning implies the totalitarian State. The moral drama of our time, it is the blindness of the men of the right who sigh of admiration in front of the totalitarian modes, while asserting the advantages of a capitalist economy, without realizing that the totalitarian State devours the private fortune, puts at the step and bureaucratise all shapes of economic activity of the country”, intervention with the Colloque Walter Lippmann, 1938
“the liberalism manufacturer, which is true liberalism, does not allow that one uses freedom to kill freedom… Liberalism manchestérien (that of “let make, let pass”) could be compared with a road mode which would let the cars circulate without highway code. The obstructions, the traffic holdups, the accidents, would be innumerable… The socialist State is similar to a mode of circulation where an central authority would fix imperatively at each one when it must leave its car, where it must go and by which way… The truly liberal State is that where the motorists are free of going where good seems to them, but by respecting the highway code…” economic mystics, Paris, Librairie of Médicis, 1938

Selective bibliography

Celse against the Christians , 1925, Editions of the century, Paris
the democratic mystic, his origins, its illusions , Flammarion, Paris, 1929
white marble France , 1947
genius of the Occident , Robert Laffont, Paris, 1969
economic mystics

External bonds

Conference on Louis Rougier with the UNIGE in 2004
Presentation of Louis Rougier
Louis Rougier - Wikiberal

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