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Debate but not too much
[Débattre mais pas trop]

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  • Jean-Daniel Boyer

    (UNISTRA FSS - Université de Strasbourg - Faculté des sciences sociales - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg)

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In 1768, Le Trosne advocates debate as a means of achieving truth and the common good. But he quickly corrects: debates should cease when the truth has been revealed and evidence must prevail. Le Trosne's position is therefore symptomatic of the tension between debate and truth. This tension reveals the nature of physiocratic epistemology. It testifies to its progressive recourse to natural law to defend the evidence contested by opinion. More generally, Le Trosne's writings raise the ever contemporary question of the status of discussions as a means of legitimising and imposing previously defined principles and new legislation.

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  • Jean-Daniel Boyer, 2024. "Debate but not too much [Débattre mais pas trop]," Post-Print hal-05512511, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05512511
    DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-17694-7.p.0015
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