English
In this paper, the author clarifies some of the main points of his recent book, L’Empire du moindre mal. As liberalism was historically founded on a negative and pessimistic anthropology, its morality needed to be virtue/value-free. Isn’t it the reason why liberal politics is reduced to the quest for objective procedures and principles free from good or bad human motivations? The main cause of the modern empire of law and market which tends to reign in our contemporary societies?