As every year on the day of the philosophy baccalaureate, we hear on all the radios, on television the stories of the baccalaureate candidates, we share their stress, we remember our own “baccalaureate days,” we debate the baccalaureate saying it was better back then. In short, in journalistic jargon, the philosophy exam is a perennial subject.
In 2008, the subjects, for once not usually the case, were not directly related to current events except for the economics specialists who had to reflect on a text by Alexis de Tocqueville excerpted from “Democracy in America”… a vast question. The other subjects were much more abstract.
For the L series:
- An excerpt from Sartre’s “Notebooks for an Ethics” to comment on
- Can perception be educated?
- Is a scientific knowledge of the living possible?
For the S series:
- An excerpt from Schopenhauer “The World as Will and Representation”
- Does art transform our consciousness of reality?
- Are there other means than demonstration to establish a truth?
For the ES series:
- An excerpt from Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America”
- Can one desire without suffering?
- Is it easier to know others than to know oneself?
Journalists from WebTvNice and Nice-Premium met with Leslie, Marion, and their classmates after the exam at the Lycée Guillaume Apollinaire in Nice. Relaxed and delighted to have finished, they answered our questions.
This video is from the website Web TV Nice 
