Ruwen Ogien

Ruwen Ogien (24 December, year unknown – 4 May 2017) was a contemporary French philosopher.

His thesis in philosophy, under the direction of Jacques Bouveresse, was published under the title The Weakness of the Will.

This is an ethical anti-paternalistic theory which would give reason to minimize the areas of intervention of what he calls, following John Stuart Mill, the "moral police".

In accordance with this general conception of ethics, it supports the freedom to do what one wants from his own life as long as we do not harm others, which implies that the decriminalization of drug use, all forms of sexual relations between consenting adults, and active assistance to die for those who make the request.

A special issue of the Journal of Theology and Philosophy was devoted to minimal ethics.