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Les remerciements vont particulièrement au chef de Canton de Gonsé (commune rurale de saaba), au Curé de Kongoussi, à l'ensemble des délégations notamment celle de l'Amicale des Retraités des Télécommunications (ART), de l'onatel, de l'Association des Ressortissants Catholiques Rollo-Ouaga, de l'Association Lagme Manegue des ressortissants de Rollo, ses amis, voisins et connaissances.

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About a new Issue of Public Reason, a Journal of Political and Moral Philosophy.

• How did It All Begin?

The Volumes contain Papers presented at the ECPR Summer School of Political Epistemology on July 27-31, 2020. The ECPR Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought organised the Summer School. Keele University and Jagiellonian University co-convened the Summer School.

The purpose of the Summer School was to convene scholars at different stages of academic careers. The aims were to meet and discuss key methodological issues in normative political theory, in particular in political epistemology.

There were 9 teaching sessions and 9 delegate presentations during the 5 days. I participated as a Paper presenter, hoping to receive feedback, make contacts, and that a scientific publication could grow out of this project.

Finally, authors from Canada, Estonia, Germany, Poland, the UK, and the US contributed to the Volumes.

• The Content of the Volumes

Jakub Szczepanski (Jagiellonian University) summarises in “Introduction” that the presentations discussed the role of knowledge and justification in politics; the problem of deep disagreement; epistemic injustice; democracy; the role of theory in politically relevant epistemic processes; constructivist and contractual accounts of justice; the role of sincerity and trust in politics; the epistemic value of electoral processes; the use of ignorance in political processes, included populism, propaganda and manipulation; uncertainty, and freedom of speech.

Robert Weston Siscoe (University of Notre Dame), “Epistemic Democracy and the Truth Connection.” The author discusses epistemic democracy and its relationship with truth. Siscoe argues that democracies have a truth-tracking feature and that they trace truth better than other political institutions. The article also discusses what truth is and how to trace it.

Lingyu Jing (University of York), “Speaking Truth to Power? A Foucauldian Theory of Whistleblowing in a Nihilistic World.” The article departs from the view that there is no truth outside power in our post-truth era. Therefore, the argument goes, whistleblowing, that has always been subjective, is even more losing its meaning.

Manuel Knoll (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), “The Significance of Deep Disagreements on Justice, Values, and Morals for Political Epistemology.” The author asks whether there is knowledge about values, the good, the just, and the morally right that could be applied to political issues. Knoll argues that there is no ultimate moral knowledge to ethically orientated political decisions but deep disagreements. The article refers to deep disagreements as disagreements in good faith that cannot be resolved through the use of reasons and arguments. Deep disagreements are resistant to rational solution because of a clash of underlying principles or framework propositions. Although political decisions are usually based on some kind of knowledge, the central question of political epistemology is whether there is any knowledge that can ethically orientate political decisions

Jaanika Erne (University of Tartu), “On the Meaning of Democracy in the European Union.” The author focuses on the limits of defining democracy. The aim is to show the functional nature of law, and the politics of meaning. Although law is aiming at being complete, it functions in the context of incompleteness of even the broadest research units – categories. Because empirics in itself cannot explain empirics, an empirical analysis can only circle. This happens even when one increases the number of categories. Only the question „Why?” will unveil the explanatory and interpretive dimensions. 

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London), “Political Knowledge: Measurement, Elitism, and Dogmatism. Public Reason.” The author shows the importance of the question of measurability of knowledge specifically in political elections. Ahlstrom-Vij asks what political knowledge is and how is it measured. The article argues that standard political knowledge tests measure political knowledge. The author uses counterfactual modeling to show the difference such knowledge can make to political choice.

John E. Roemer (Yale University), “Epistemological Issues in the Theory of Equality of Opportunity.” The author asks about the optimal policy of equal opportunities. In the end of the article he states that recruiting for social positions on the basis of merit alone is now quite rare.

• About Public Reason

Public Reason characterises itself as a peer-reviewed open-access journal of political and moral philosophy. The journal is also available in print. It publishes articles, book reviews, and discussion notes from all fields of political philosophy and ethics, included political theory, applied ethics, and legal philosophy.

Public Reason publishes also texts from other areas of philosophy if they are relevant for issues of moral and political philosophy.

The journal is committed to a pluralistic approach. It promotes interdisciplinarity and original perspectives, the ideals of critical thinking and clarity. The journal addresses the international philosophical community, and a broader public interested in political and moral philosophy. See the journal’s website at https://publicreason.ro/home

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Une des premières décision du pape Léon XIV a été nommer un nouveau délégué apostolique au Kosovo, mais la reconnaissance du pays par le Vatican n'est toujours pas à l'ordre du jour. Cela pourrait en effet compromettre les relations avec l'Église serbe et l'ensemble de l'orthodoxie.

- Le fil de l'Info / François Balkans, Kosovo, Courrier des Balkans, Relations internationales, Religions, Alb Religions

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Nigel Farage, au Royaume-Uni, George Simion, en Roumanie, Sali Berisha en Albanie... Ils sont plusieurs au sein de la droite – souvent radicale – européenne à avoir fait campagne ces dernières semaines en se revendiquant de la politique du président américain. Mais si la figure de Donald Trump séduit certains électorats du Vieux Continent, elle peut aussi s'avérer encombrante.

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À 20h, lundi 2 juin, le Premier ministre Donald Tusk s’est adressé aux Polonais à la télévision dans une allocution solennelle, consécutive aux résultats de l’élection présidentielle, pour annoncer, présenter un vote de confiance à l’Assemblée sur son gouvernement. La défaite du candidat de la coalition, Rafal Trzaskowski, face au conservateur et nationaliste Karol Nawrocki a remis en question les plans du Premier ministre pour les deux prochaines années.

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Des jihadistes du Jnim, liés à Al-Qaïda, affirment s'être emparés de la base militaire de Boulkessi, dans le centre du Mali. L'armée malienne a pour sa part confirmé avoir dû se replier face à l'intensité des combats. Le bilan est actuellement de plus de 30 morts.