Laks, André
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Laks, André
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Item type:Publication, An Encounter in Lille: Epicurus’ Language as a Hermeneutical ProblemIn the spring of 1972, Diskin Clay was invited to Lille by Jean Bollack, who had just returned from his stay at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, to join for a term the Centre de Recherche Philologique, a small team made up of some colleagues and a few post-graduate and doctoral students who had just received the official support of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), which meant national recognition and some additional funding. This beginning was largely symbolic. One room looking onto the yard of a company that had been shut down, 10 minutes away from the main building of the Uni-versity of Lille (at that time located in the town center), almost no books, and those that did exist bought in second hand bookshops. These were heroic times. The whole enterprise relied on the incredible energy of Jean Bollack and the help he received, officially, from Philippe Rousseau, at that time Assistant Professor of Greek, unofficially from Heinz Wismann, then lecturer at the Sorbonne for philosophical German, and from a bunch of enthusiastic and dedicated graduate and doctoral students, of whom I was one. Most of us politically were rather far to the left, in the wake of 1968, but our utopia was of a scholarly and intellec-tual nature, inspired by Bollack’s teaching, personality, and deeds. ©The author. ©De Gruyter.12 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Historiographies de la philosophie ancienne. Neuf étudesLes études réunies dans ce livre reprennent des travaux publiés de manière dispersée entre 1989 et 2014. Elles considèrent neuf moments significatifs de la réception philosophique de la philosophie et des philosophes antiques du XVIIIe au XXe siècle. Anaximandre, Héraclite, Parménide, Platon, les Cyniques, mais aussi les traditions doxographiques qui ont modelé leurs images, sont pris dans l?espace complexe où la philosophie et ses historiens croisent tant les théories de l?histoire que les pratiques philologiques. L?unité du propos est assurée non seulement par une trame chronologique, allant de Brucker à Kant, de Kant à Schleiermacher et aux Néokantiens, de Burckhardt à Nietzsche, de Nietzsche à Heidegger et Gadamer, et de la philosophie elle-même à la psychologie historique de Vernant, mais aussi par l?attention qui est portée, dans chaque cas, aux tensions et équilibres intellectuels et disciplinaires mis en jeu. La question générale est celle des critères et de la légitimité des actualisations qui guident la recherche historique. L?ensemble constitue ainsi, à partir d?un domaine spécialisé, une contribution à un domaine de recherche, l?historiographie de la philosophie, dont un critique pouvait encore dire en 1991 qu?' il n?y a guère de discipline dont la procédure est historique où l?investissement exigé en matière de théorie et de méthodologie soit plus réduit ', mais qui a connu au cours de ces dernières années d?importants développements. On peut penser que la voie est désormais ouverte à une discussion interdisciplinaire et interculturelle de grande ampleur et portée. ©The author. ©Les Belles-Lettres.17 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and SignificanceWhen we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about “Presocratic philosophy” in the first place? How did early Greek thinkers come to be considered collectively as Presocratic philosophers? In this brief book, André Laks provides a history of the influential idea of Presocratic philosophy, tracing its historical and philosophical significance and consequences, from its ancient antecedents to its full crystallization in the modern period and its continuing effects today. Laks examines ancient Greek and Roman views about the birth of philosophy before turning to the eighteenth-century emergence of the term “Presocratics” and the debates about it that spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He analyzes the intellectual circumstances that led to the idea of Presocratic philosophy—and what was and is at stake in the construction of the notion. The book closes by comparing two models of the history of philosophy—the phenomenological, represented by Hans-Georg Gadamer, and the rationalist, represented by Ernst Cassirer—and their implications for Presocratic philosophy, as well as other categories of philosophical history. Other figures discussed include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Nietzsche, Max Weber, and J.-P. Vernant. Challenging standard histories of Presocratic philosophy, the book calls for a reconsideration of the conventional story of early Greek philosophy and Western rationality. ©The autor © Princeton University Press.19 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Souls and Cosmos before Plato : Five Short Doxographical StudiesThis article shows how two basic meanings of psukhē – namely ‘breath’ and ‘life’– may have helped Platonising or for that matter Stoicising doxographers to lend to various pre-Platonic philosophers the view that the world is ‘ensouled’. I do not try to systematically reconstruct how these cosmo-philosophers conceived the relationship between the world and what was to become ‘the soul’. I do suggest, however, that framing the problem in terms of ‘breath’ and ‘life’ helps us in getting a more adequate understanding both of the authentic evidence and of the history of its reception. Indeed, to the extent that it is possible, I try to reconstruct the interpretive steps that led, with various degrees of legitimacy, from the original wording to its Platonising or Stoicising deformations, which remain all too often the framework of analysis in modern interpretations. Five case studies are considered: Thales, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, some Pythagoreans and Alcmeon. ©The author. ©Cambridge University Press.11 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, What Is Pre-Socratic Ethics?(2017)The field of ancient Greek ethics is increasingly emerging as a major branch of philosophical enquiry, and students and scholars of ancient philosophy will find this Companion to be a rich and invaluable guide to the themes and movements which characterised the discipline from the Pre-Socratics to the Neo-Platonists. Several chapters are dedicated to the central figures of Plato and Aristotle, and others explore the ethical thought of the Stoics, the Epicureans, the Skeptics, and Plotinus. Further chapters examine important themes that cut across these schools, including virtue and happiness, friendship, elitism, impartiality, and the relationship between ancient eudaimonism and modern morality. Written by leading scholars and drawing on cutting-edge research to illuminate the questions of ancient ethics, the book will provide students and specialists with an indispensable critical overview of the full range of ancient Greek ethics. ©2017 Cambridge University Press.1 10 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Platonicien malgré lui? Le statut de l'éthique platonicienne dans les GrundlinienL’importance de Platon dans l’œuvre de Schleiermacher est connue, mais a été souvent trop exclusivement liée à la traduction des dialogues et à la célèbre Introduction qui la précède. Or cette Introduction ne porte que sur la forme des dialogues platoniciens. S’agissant du contenu, il convient de lire, en parallèle avec l’Introduction (publiée en 1804), les Principes d’une critique de la doctrine des mœurs antérieures, qui datent de 1803. Platon y joue en effet un rôle central, à côté de Spinoza, auquel il est régulièrement associé. Une des questions qui se pose alors est comment construire la relation entre l’éloge constant que Schleiermacher fait de l’éthique platonicienne dans ce traité, et les critiques qu’il adressera aussi par la suite à Platon, notamment dans son Introduction à la République de 1828.2 16 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Lever, or how to act at a distance : a backdrop to Theophrastus' De sensibus(2019)It is well known that when it comes to perception in the De anima, Aristotle uses affection-related vocabulary with extreme caution. This has given rise to a debate between interpreters who hold that in Aristotle's account, the act of sense-perception nevertheless involves the physiological alteration of the sense organ (Richard Sorabji), and those think, with Myles Burnyeat, that for Aristotle, perception does not involve any material process, so that an Aristotelian physics of sense-perception is a "physics of forms alone". The present article suggests that the dematerialisation of Aristotle's theory of perception, which has a long story from Alexander of Aphrodisias to Brentano, may be in fact traced back to Theophrastus' exegesis of Aristotle's relevant passages in the De anima in his Physics, as we can reconstruct it on the basis of Priscian's Metaphrasis in Theophrastum and Simplicius' commentary of Aristotle's De Anima. The reconstruction also provides a scholastic-theoretical frame to Theophrastus' critical exposition of ancient theories about sense perception in his De sensibus, whether or not the discussion originally belonged to Theophrastus' Physics. © 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.1Scopus© Citations 5 9 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Destructible worlds in an aristotelian scholion (Alexander of Aphrodisias' lost commentary on Aristotle's Physics, frag. 539 rashed)(2018)Does Anaxagoras admit that the world is destructible? Aëtius' doxographical handbook says as much, and so does a doxographical scholion derived from Alexander of Aphrodisias' lost commentary on Aristotle's Physics (Frag. 539 Rashed) according to the transmitted text. However, because of other difficulties occurring in the same scholion, Rashed was led to correct not only this text, thus making it contradict Aëtius' testimony, but also the entry dedicated to Plato. My article suggests that while Rashed's corrections are superfluous, the problems that triggered them are of great interest for the history of the doxographical tradition, for the way in which this tradition was used by Alexander of Aphrodisias and Simplicius in their commentaries on Aristotle's Physics and, last but not least, for the understanding of the difficulties that ancient interpreters had to confront when they had to make sense of the lines now known as Anaxagoras B12 DK - difficulties that modern interpreters have still to confront. © 2018 Edizioni Di Filosofia E Scienze Bibliopolis. All rights reserved.2 11Scopus© Citations 2
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