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Luc Ferry
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| Minister for Youth, National Education and Research | |
| In office 7 May 2002 – 31 March 2004 |
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| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Pierre Raffarin |
| Preceded by | Jack Lang |
| Succeeded by | François Fillon |
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| Born | 3 January 1951 Colombes, France |
| Political party | UMP |
| Alma mater | University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne Heidelberg University |
| Profession | Philosopher |
Luc Ferry (French: [fɛʁi]; born 3 January 1951) is a French philosopher and politician, and a proponent of secular humanism. He is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank.
Biography
He received an Agrégation de philosophie (1975), a Doctorate in Political science (1981), and an Agrégation in political science (1982). As a professor of political science and political philosophy, Luc Ferry taught at the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (1982–1988)—during which time he also taught and directed graduate research at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne—, then at the University of Caen (1989–96). He finally was a professor at Paris Diderot University from 1996 until he resigned in 2011 when asked to actually teach there.
From 2002 and until 2004 he served as the Minister of Education on the cabinet led by the conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. During his tenure, he was the minister in charge of the implementation of the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools. He received the award of Docteur honoris causa from the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada). He is the 2013 Telesio Galilei Academy of science Laureate for Philosophy.
He was created Chevalier (Knight) of the Bacchanalian fraternity De La Dive Bouteille De Gaillac on 20 March 2012 together with French mathematician Max Karoubi and Italian philosopher Francesco Fucilla.
He is the creator of the comic book series La Sagesse des mythes which is based on Greek mythology and is published since 2016.
Despite repeated efforts, Luc Ferry was rejected for the third time by the Académie Française, in January 2019.
As a humanist, Ferry is highly critical of animal rights, deep ecology and environmentalism which he dismisses for elevating the moral status of nature.
Works
- La pensée '68 (1985) [translated as 'French Philosophy of the 60s [
- Homo Aestheticus (1990)
- The New Ecological Order (1992)
- Rights: The New Quarrel Between the Ancients and the Moderns
- Man Made God: The Meaning of Life (1992)
- The Wisdom of the Moderns (1998)
- Political Philosophy
- Why We Are Not Nietzscheans, editor with Alain Renaut
- Qu'est-ce qu'une vie reussie?, (2002) Editions Grasset & Fasquelle
- Le religieux après la religion (2004) with Marcel Gauchet
- Apprendre à vivre (2006)
- Vaincre les peurs. La philosophie comme amour de la sagesse,(2006), éditions Odile Jacob.
- Kant. Une lecture des trois Critiques,(2006), éditions Grasset.
- Familles, je vous aime : Politique et vie privée à l'âge de la mondialisation,(2007), XO Editions.
- La tentation du christianisme with Lucien Jerphagnon, (2009), éditions Grasset.
- La Révolution de l'amour (2010), Plon.
- A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living (2011)
- On Love: A Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century (2012)
- The Wisdom of the Myths: How Greek Mythology Can Change Your Life (2014)
- La Révolution Transhumaniste. Comment la technomédecine et l'uberisation du monde vont bouleverser nos vies (2016), Plon.
See also
In Spanish: Luc Ferry para niños
