Monique Canto-Sperber

Monique Canto-Sperber , born in 1954, is a French Philosophe , political specialist in moral Philosophie and . Its work is one of the principal references of French social-liberals like Jean-Marie Bockel.

She is member of the Research center policies Raymond Aron of EHESS and is director of the National university since 2005.

Biography

Born in Algeria, she lived in France starting from 1964. Received in 1974 with the National university of young girls, it becomes aggregate E of Philosophie in 1978. She was married with the sociologist and psychological daN Sperber, which she divorced. She lives today with Paris.

She is regarded today as one of the French specialists in Plato, of which she represented and commented on several dialogs ( Euthydème , Gorgias , Ion , Ménon ). But its structures especially support on the moral Philosophie and political.

In November 2005, it succeeds Gabriel Ruget with the head of the National university. Some of its decisions to the head of this institution are disputed and, in November 2006, the directors of the departments and libraries literary resign in particular reproaching him decisions hasty and without dialog, in particular the imposition of expenses of accesses raised to the library of the letters and the cancellation of last minute of a reform project of the entrance examination.

In addition to its functions of director of the ENS, Monique Canto-Sperber cumulates other responsibilities. She Co-animates with Jean-Pierre Elkabbach the emission Bibliothèque Médicis every Friday towards 18:30 on the French chain Public Senate. Since the re-entry 2006, it animates Questions of ethics about France Culture saturdays of 12:00 to 12:30. It is also member of the national Advisory committee of ethics and research director at CNRS.

Lastly, it is ethical professor of at the department humanities and social sciences of the Polytechnic school.

According to the list stopped at November 11th, 2003, it is member of the scientific committee of orientation of the association founded by Michel Rocard and Dominique Strauss-Kahn: On the left, in Europe. It was near, at its beginnings, of the Fondation for the political innovation, created in 2004 by Jerome Monod.

Work

In its work Greek Éthiques , Monique Canto-Sperber defends the idea that the vision of the moral Philosophie Greek contemporary is a Artifact which does not correspond to the reality of ethics of this time. The Greek ethics, now remobilized by critical currents of modernity (like the " néo-aristotélisme"), are not, contrary to the common image, more or less all the forms of Eudémonisme. There exists within the Greek moral thought of the extremely various positions, but of which some only are the object of recoveries in the contemporary debates. The vulgar image of the Greek ethics which in fact “mixed one with tonality aristotelician” is a creation of the modern time, creation which aims at going to seek at old solutions with the failures that some note in modernity. The current perception of Greek ethics thus is not simply truncated, it is skewed.

Against the prejudices concerning ancient morals, Greek Éthiques seeks to show the diversity of the Greek forms of moral philosophy and to propose certain generally occulted thoughts. To through a series of tests, the work wants to present a more faithful vision of Greek ethics, very stopping on certain philosophies morals ignored (or little the object of recoveries) like that of Plato.

Publications

Direction of the Dictionary of ethics and moral philosophy , university Presses of France, Paris, 1996; 4th edition, coll “Quadriga/Dictionaries pocket”, 2004
(to dir.) Greek Philosophy , in collaboration with J. Barnes, L. Brisson, J. Brunschwig, and G. Vlastos, Paris, university Presses of France, coll " First cycle" , 1997.
Ethical Greek , university Presses of France, coll “Quadriga/Test”, Paris, 2001
moral Concern and the Human life , university Presses of France, Paris, 2001; 2nd edition, 2002,
liberal Socialism. An anthology (Europe - the United States) , Spirit, Paris, 2003
Rules of freedom , Plon, Paris, 2003
the Good, the War and Terror. For is an international morals , Plon, Paris, 2005
Necessary to save liberalism? , with Nicolas Tenzer, Grasset, Paris, 2006,

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