This Tuesday, June 18 at 8.00 the final year students from Quimper high schools put their brains to the test to answer the questions “does the state owe us something?” » or “can science satisfy our need for truth?” “. In the streets of Quimper, the questioned passers-by did not have four hours to answer, but happily agreed to philosophize, sometimes even in the rain. The topics, strongly linked to current events, gave rise to strong reflections.
“We are not the most unhappy”
In the Saint-François halls, for three retired friends from the Bigouden country, the philosophy test is a distant memory, but the topics still inspired them: “There are many things to say. The state owes us a lot in the current context,” Marie, 64, assesses .Her friend Christelle adds: “We are not the most unhappy in relation to the young people coming.”The three Bigoudènes gave their ideas freely , about freedom, believes that the sciences all have their place in philosophy: “Artificial intelligence immediately comes to mind”. my house…”.
When the news catches up with the topics
Place Terre-au-Duc, Fernand and Rémi, father and son, walking. Asked if “The state owes us something”, Rémi, 28, thinks of taxes, “we pay, so we hope the state will return them to us”. Fernand, his father, finds it a “political but not necessarily philosophical” subject. He allows himself to distort the question: “We can also ask ourselves what we owe the State”.
In front of the bishop’s garden, all smiles, Agnès and Dominique, aged 66 and 67, take part in the exercise. Dominique, well informed, already knows the statements. For him, “topics are catching up with the subjects, but I hope that the students will not be too inspired by them, at the risk of overheating the proofreader”.
“It’s good that there is still philosophy”
Dominique is pleased that philosophy is still on the curriculum for last year’s class: “It gives students the opportunity to develop their citizenship. Today, being a citizen is not about consuming, but above all about thinking about the world we live in, and understand it.” Agnès adds “it is also a way for young people to compare their views, to admit that they are wrong and to learn from others”. For the complicit couple, philosophy is also a subject of debate. Agnès believes that the profession is less competitive than others : “Students don’t need to compare themselves by saying ‘my way of thinking is stronger than yours.'” A point of view that Dominique does not share, but the couple ends up agreeing that philosophy is also an “intellectual competition”. their own philosophy.
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