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| Academy of Moral and Political Sciences | |
|---|---|
| Name | Academy of Moral and Political Sciences |
| Native name | Académie des sciences morales et politiques |
| Formation | 1795 |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Location | Institut de France |
| Leader title | President |
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences is a French learned society founded in 1795 and reestablished in 1832 that assembles scholars, statesmen, jurists, economists, and philosophers to deliberate on ethical, legal, political, and social questions. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France and occupies a place alongside the Académie française, the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, the Académie des sciences, and the Académie des beaux-arts. The Academy has interacted with figures from the eras of the French Revolution (1789–1799), the July Monarchy, the Second French Empire, and the Fifth Republic.
The Academy originated during the aftermath of the French Revolution (1789–1799) when the revolutionary government reorganized learned institutions and created several national academies, including a body intended to examine moral and political questions by reference to Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Suppressed and transformed in the Napoleonic period linked to Napoleon I and the institutions of the Consulate, it was reconstituted under the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe and received formal recognition during reforms associated with the Charter of 1830. In the 19th century the Academy engaged with debates involving personalities such as Théodore Jouffroy, François Guizot, Jules Simon, and Alexis de Tocqueville while responding to social upheavals including the Revolution of 1848 and the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War that led to the Paris Commune. During the 20th century it counted among its interlocutors figures linked to the Dreyfus Affair, the intellectual networks around Émile Durkheim, the policymaking circles of Édouard Herriot, and postwar reconstruction under the influence of actors like Charles de Gaulle and participants in European integration such as Robert Schuman.
The Academy is organized within the framework of the Institut de France and follows statutes that define sections, terms, and election procedures comparable to those of other French academies influenced by prerogatives from the Ancien Régime and later administrative reforms of the Third Republic. It is divided into sections historically covering topics associated with figures like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jeremy Bentham and operates under a presidency and bureaux patterned after institutions like the Académie française. Governance includes elected officers, committees, and rapporteurs who prepare sessions and memoranda mirroring practices seen in bodies such as the Conseil d'État and national academies across Europe like the British Academy and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Membership comprises life members elected in competition for numbered seats, with chairs formerly held by jurists, philosophers, economists, and statesmen who often had careers intersecting with institutions such as the Conseil Constitutionnel, the Assemblée nationale (France), the Cour de cassation (France), and ministries presided over by leaders like Jules Ferry or Léon Gambetta. Notable fellows have included legal scholars comparable in stature to Raymond Carré de Malberg, economists in the lineage of Frédéric Bastiat and François Quesnay, philosophers and moralists associated with the legacies of Henri Bergson and Paul Ricœur, and public intellectuals whose trajectories crossed with Pierre Mendès France, Georges Pompidou, and Jacques Chirac. The Academy has also attracted foreign correspondents and honorary members from circles linked to Max Weber, John Maynard Keynes, Albert Einstein, and European statesmen such as Konrad Adenauer and Winston Churchill.
The Academy conducts regular sessions, public lectures, prize competitions, and deliberative reports that have addressed topics ranging from jurisprudence influenced by decisions of the Conseil d'État (France) to economic doctrines debated since the time of Jean-Baptiste Say. Its prizes and medals have honored work in fields represented by laureates similar to recipients of awards from the Nobel Prize milieu and national distinctions like the Légion d'honneur. The Academy publishes proceedings, mémoires, and collections of addresses that appear alongside comparable publications of the Académie des sciences and the Académie française, and collaborates on conferences with institutions such as the Collège de France, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and international organizations like the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Through reports, expert opinions, and interventions, the Academy has influenced debates on constitutional law connected to events such as the drafting of texts in the wake of the Third Republic and the Vichy France period, social policy dialogues involving actors like Jules Siegfried and Émile Zola in cultural matters, and ethical discussions resonant with controversies exemplified by the Dreyfus Affair. Its membership network intersects with ministerial cabinets, parliamentary commissions of the Assemblée nationale (France), and judicial bodies, enabling contributions to public policymaking comparable to advisory roles played by think tanks such as Institut Montaigne and international learned societies including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Academy continues to participate in public debate on issues linked to European integration processes involving the Treaty of Rome and the Maastricht Treaty and on global questions addressed in forums with participants from the European Commission and the Council of Europe.
Category:Learned societies of France Category:Institut de France