Pierre Manent was director of studies at L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, until his retirement in 2014. He is the author of numerous books, including The City of Man, Democracy without Nations?, Metamorphoses of the City, and most recently, Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason.
The humanitarian proposal is hard to refuse, because it postulates that we can achieve justice if everyone simply becomes aware of their essential human likeness. The Christian proposal is hard to accept, because it affirms that all human beings are prisoners of an injustice from which they cannot escape by their own efforts.
Date posted: 2021-03-31