The kickoff of the marathon Bac 2019 was given Monday in all the centers of examination of France. And as every year, it is by the philosopher that the 740,000 candidates started this crucial week. With not necessarily the same stakes for everyone, because this sometimes dreaded material does not necessarily have the same importance in the technological series, where its coefficient is 2 that for the literary series, where it represents nearly a fifth of the final note. Europe 1 invites you to discover, series by series, the topics on which the candidates worked in the morning.
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L series (coefficient 7)
For the S-series, it will be necessary to be at its maximum from the beginning of the tests. Because for these, philosophy represents almost a fifth of the final score. Suffice to say that we must not miss. Here are the topics on which they had to floor:
Topic 1: Is it possible to escape time?
Topic 2: What is the point of explaining a work of art?
Topic 3: Extract from a text by Hegel, taken from his Principles of the Philosophy of Law , published in 1820
Economic and social series (coefficient 4)
Coefficient 4: Philosophy is not necessarily essential, but it is not negligible for students engaged in the economic and social series. Here are the topics on which they had to floor:
Topic 1: Is morality the best policy?
Topic 2: Does work divide men?
Topic 3: Excerpt from a text by Leibniz, taken from his Remarks on the general part of the Principles of Descartes , published in 1692
Series S (coefficient 3)
Of course, for students in the scientific series, philosophy and its coefficient 3 does not seem to be a priority. But it can make it possible to bring the points in addition to obtain a mention or, on the contrary, it can fall an average in case of big failure. Here are the topics on which candidates had to floor:
Topic 1: Does the plurality of cultures stand in the way of the unity of the human race?
Topic 2: Recognize your homework, is it giving up your freedom?
Topic 3: Excerpt from a text by Freud, from The Future of an Illusion , published in 1927