ABSTRACT
Some decades ago, Professor Henri Baruk together with Eugene Minkowski- the most outstanding French psychiatrist of Jewish origin- elaborated a “test Tsedek” to evaluate the moral conscience of a person. Bergson and Octave Hamelin are doubtless the outstanding dialectical thinkers of French origin. According to Robert Sommer, the Tsedek represents “a kind of mixture of justice and charity,” whereas Professor Baruk sees it as “a cornerstone of Hebrew monotheism". The concept of Tsedek cannot be considered as the monopoly of any particular religion; it belongs to the moral inheritance of humanity as a whole. Minkowski seldom used the term “dialectics” and never in its Hegelian or Marxist sense. Like George Orwell, whose philosophy is dose to his, Minkowski belongs to the category of authors who receive more tribute after their death than during their lifetime.
