{"id":4224,"date":"2026-04-20T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:18:28","slug":"benjamin-constant-de-la-perfectibilite-de-lespece-humaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/?p=4224","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Constant, De la perfectibilit\u00e9 de l&rsquo;esp\u00e8ce humaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9782381410944_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4225\" src=\"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9782381410944_1-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9782381410944_1-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9782381410944_1-718x1024.jpg 718w, https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9782381410944_1-150x214.jpg 150w, https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9782381410944_1-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9782381410944_1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><em>Dans la lutte de la r\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise, les aristocrates les plus inv\u00e9t\u00e9r\u00e9s n\u2019ont pas song\u00e9 \u00e0 proposer le r\u00e9tablissement de l\u2019esclavage, et Platon, dans sa r\u00e9publique id\u00e9ale, ne suppose pas qu\u2019on puisse s\u2019en passer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Telle est la marche de l\u2019esprit humain, que les hommes les plus absurdes d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui ne peuvent, en d\u00e9pit d\u2019eux, r\u00e9trograder au point o\u00f9 en \u00e9taient les plus \u00e9clair\u00e9s des si\u00e8cles ant\u00e9rieurs. Quand le temps et le raisonnement ont fait compl\u00e8tement justice d\u2019une institution fausse, la sottise m\u00eame et l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat personnel n\u2019osent plus la r\u00e9clamer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Constant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dans la lutte de la r\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise, les aristocrates les plus inv\u00e9t\u00e9r\u00e9s n\u2019ont pas song\u00e9 \u00e0 proposer le r\u00e9tablissement de l\u2019esclavage, et Platon, dans sa r\u00e9publique id\u00e9ale, ne suppose pas qu\u2019on puisse s\u2019en passer. Telle est la marche de l\u2019esprit humain, que les hommes les plus absurdes d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui ne peuvent, en d\u00e9pit d\u2019eux, r\u00e9trograder au [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constant-benjamin","tag-domaine-francais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4227,"href":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editions-sillage.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}