Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the secret
For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, transparency and truth are goals to be achieved. As he writes in Book IV of the Confessions: “I wish I could in some way make my soul …
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The secret: essential for living well?
Without secrecy, no relationship is possible. You can think of secrecy as a hidden, dark place. But in the opposite direction, if there were no secret, everything would be pure. …
The secret, an ornament – Simmel
Georg Simmel, who died in 1918, is the author of a Sociology where he analyzes, among other things, the function of secrecy in esoteric societies. “Secrecy functions as an ornament …
Michel Serres – 3 types of secrets
Michel Serres, a philosopher specializing in the history of science, distinguishes three types of secrets: We can easily distinguish three types of secrets. The socio-political secret, well analyzed everywhere: knowledge …
French law – Secrecy and transparency laws to know
Knowing this chronology of the laws on Secrecy, or rather on transparency in France, will be useful to understand the framework in which the policy on secrecy is deployed in …
The King’s Secret and the Black Cabinet
Louis XV, in the Eighteenth century created the Secret du Roi. It is a secret service, and in this we are in the tradition of the Cabinet Noir of Richelieu. This …
