Luc Ferry

Luc Ferry is a French public intellectual and prolific author, who is a proponent of secular humanism. He was Minister of National Education for two years during the presidency of Jacques Chirac. He received an Agrégation de philosophie in 1975, a Doctorate in Political science in 1981, and an Agrégation in political science in 1982. As a professor of political science and political philosophy, Luc Ferry taught at the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon, the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, the University of Caen, and Paris Diderot University. He is the creator of the comic book series La Sagesse des mythes. Ferry received the award of Doctor honoris causa from the Université de Sherbrooke and is the 2013 Telesio Galilei Academy of Science Laureate for Philosophy. In 2011, Ferry announced on television that he knew about a former government minister who had sexually abused young boys in an orgy in Morocco. He also faced controversy for not teaching at Paris Diderot University while being paid as a professor. Ferry is highly critical of animal rights, deep ecology, and environmentalism. In the yellow vests protests in 2019, Ferry suggested that the police should shoot to kill protesters.