Kontos Pavlos. Adolf Reinach, Les fondements «a priori» du droit civil. Traduction de Ronan de Ca... more Kontos Pavlos. Adolf Reinach, Les fondements «a priori» du droit civil. Traduction de Ronan de Calan. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 103, n°4, 2005. pp. 667-669
In Aristotle’s world there is no God to answer our prayers (euchê) and yet prayers follow the exc... more In Aristotle’s world there is no God to answer our prayers (euchê) and yet prayers follow the excellent city of the Politics like a shadow. Nonetheless, as far as I know, people have been content to narrow the focus of investigation to Aristotle’s utopia, its plausibility, structure and infrastructure, leaving prayers out of the picture. The most prayers themselves seem to deserve is a footnote or so. The result is that attention is switched away from the most basic questions: What is the function of practical reason that prayers are meant to perform and why could not, or should not, that function be carried out by deliberate choices, wishes, and action plans? Prayers matter, and matter a lot, so I will argue, for they mirror our understanding of constitutive moral luck. The legislators and the rulers who ignore or overlook this truth are theoretically incompetent and politically perilous.
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ABSTRACT Aristotle tries to solve the riddle of future-directedness and luck-awareness by offerin... more ABSTRACT Aristotle tries to solve the riddle of future-directedness and luck-awareness by offering an account of what he calls ‘good hope’ or hoping-well. I concede that hope does not hold Aristotle’s attention for long. However, his allusions to hope (in the Nicomachean Ethics, the Eudemian Ethics, and the Rhetoric) allow us to articulate a quite detailed, illuminating, and rich phenomenology of hope that will prove to be decisive when inquiring into how hopefulness belongs to the core of practical life, thereby making an important contribution to contemporary discussions of hope.
Kontos Pavlos. Carl Friedrich Gethmann, Dasein: Erkennen und Handeln. Heidegger im phanomenologis... more Kontos Pavlos. Carl Friedrich Gethmann, Dasein: Erkennen und Handeln. Heidegger im phanomenologischen Kontext. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrieme serie, tome 92, n°4, 1994. pp. 612-614.
What I want to call the “Myth of Performativity” is a theoretical conception, mistakenly attribut... more What I want to call the “Myth of Performativity” is a theoretical conception, mistakenly attributed to Aristotle, about what distinguishes praxis in the strict sense (i.e., morally and politically relevant actions) from other kinds of human activities. According to the Myth, actions constitute pure performances—i.e., a sheer display of ethical virtue—and do not leave behind themselves concrete traces in the world—i.e., any traces significant for appraising their goodness. If that is what performativity would amount to, it can only be mythical. So how can the Myth be a pitfall? The reason is that the Myth takes inspiration from a correct understanding of actions: to differentiate actions from other kinds of human activities—for instance, from productions (poiesis)—it is useful to ascribe a sort of performativity to the former. The Myth becomes, however, a real risk once one distorts the performativity proper to actions and, instead, celebrates pure performativity. And the Myth of Per...
Kontos Pavlos. Adolf Reinach, Les fondements «a priori» du droit civil. Traduction de Ronan de Ca... more Kontos Pavlos. Adolf Reinach, Les fondements «a priori» du droit civil. Traduction de Ronan de Calan. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 103, n°4, 2005. pp. 667-669
In Aristotle’s world there is no God to answer our prayers (euchê) and yet prayers follow the exc... more In Aristotle’s world there is no God to answer our prayers (euchê) and yet prayers follow the excellent city of the Politics like a shadow. Nonetheless, as far as I know, people have been content to narrow the focus of investigation to Aristotle’s utopia, its plausibility, structure and infrastructure, leaving prayers out of the picture. The most prayers themselves seem to deserve is a footnote or so. The result is that attention is switched away from the most basic questions: What is the function of practical reason that prayers are meant to perform and why could not, or should not, that function be carried out by deliberate choices, wishes, and action plans? Prayers matter, and matter a lot, so I will argue, for they mirror our understanding of constitutive moral luck. The legislators and the rulers who ignore or overlook this truth are theoretically incompetent and politically perilous.
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2020
ABSTRACT Aristotle tries to solve the riddle of future-directedness and luck-awareness by offerin... more ABSTRACT Aristotle tries to solve the riddle of future-directedness and luck-awareness by offering an account of what he calls ‘good hope’ or hoping-well. I concede that hope does not hold Aristotle’s attention for long. However, his allusions to hope (in the Nicomachean Ethics, the Eudemian Ethics, and the Rhetoric) allow us to articulate a quite detailed, illuminating, and rich phenomenology of hope that will prove to be decisive when inquiring into how hopefulness belongs to the core of practical life, thereby making an important contribution to contemporary discussions of hope.
Kontos Pavlos. Carl Friedrich Gethmann, Dasein: Erkennen und Handeln. Heidegger im phanomenologis... more Kontos Pavlos. Carl Friedrich Gethmann, Dasein: Erkennen und Handeln. Heidegger im phanomenologischen Kontext. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrieme serie, tome 92, n°4, 1994. pp. 612-614.
What I want to call the “Myth of Performativity” is a theoretical conception, mistakenly attribut... more What I want to call the “Myth of Performativity” is a theoretical conception, mistakenly attributed to Aristotle, about what distinguishes praxis in the strict sense (i.e., morally and politically relevant actions) from other kinds of human activities. According to the Myth, actions constitute pure performances—i.e., a sheer display of ethical virtue—and do not leave behind themselves concrete traces in the world—i.e., any traces significant for appraising their goodness. If that is what performativity would amount to, it can only be mythical. So how can the Myth be a pitfall? The reason is that the Myth takes inspiration from a correct understanding of actions: to differentiate actions from other kinds of human activities—for instance, from productions (poiesis)—it is useful to ascribe a sort of performativity to the former. The Myth becomes, however, a real risk once one distorts the performativity proper to actions and, instead, celebrates pure performativity. And the Myth of Per...
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- Parmenides, Venerable and Awesome. Proceedings
of the International Symposium. Buenos Aires, October
29-November 2, 2007. Éd. N.-L. Cordero (S. Trépanier)
- Barnes J. et al., Zenone e l’infinito. Eleatica 2008. Éd. L. Rossetti
et M. Pulpito (C. Louguet)
- Santas G., Understanding Plato’s Republic (O. Renaut)
- Dialogues on Plato’s Politeia (Republic). Selected Papers from the
Ninth Symposium Platonicum. Éd. N. Notomi et L. Brisson
(F. Baghdassarian)
- Teisserenc F., Langage et image dans l’oeuvre de Platon (S. Delcomminette)
- Plato and the Poets. Éd. P. Destrée et F.-G. Herrmann (E. Grasso)
- The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle. Éd. J. L. Fink
(J.-B. Gourinat)
- Cherry K. M., Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics
(E. Rogan)
- Gotthelf A., Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in
Aristotle’s Biology (D. Lefebvre)
- Dudley J., Aristotle’s Concept of Chance. Accidents, Cause, Necessity,
and Determinism (M. Zingano)
- The Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck. The
Sixth S. V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. Éd.
F. Leigh (M. Zingano)
- Echeñique J, Aristotle’s Ethics and Moral Responsibility (M. Zingano)
- Reeve C. D. C., Action, Contemplation, and Happiness – an Essay
on Aristotle (M. Zingano)
- Curzer H. J., Aristotle & the Virtues (A. G. Vigo)
- Johansen T. K., The Powers of Aristotle’s Soul (M. D. Boeri)
- The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle. Éd. C. Shields (M. Zingano)
- Slote M., The Impossibility of Perfection. Aristotle, Feminism and
the Complexities of Ethics (P. Kontos)
- Giovacchini J., L’Empirisme d’Épicure (J. Devinant)
- Willms L., Epiktets Diatribe Über die Freiheit (4.1). Einleitung,
Übersetzung, Kommentar. Band 1 & 2 (J. Wilberger)
- Marwan Rashed, Alexandre d’Aphrodise, Commentaire perdu à la
Physique d’Aristote (Livres IV-VIII). Les scholies byzantines.
Édition, traduction et commentaire (G. Guyomarc’h)
- Iamblichus and the Foundations of Late Platonism. Éd. E. A fonasin,
J. Dillon, J. F. Finamore (M.‑A. Gavray)
- Metry-Tresson C., L’aporie ou l’expérience des limites de la pensée
dans le Péri Archôn de Damaskios (M.-A. Gavray)
- Walker J., The Genuine Teachers of this Art. Rhetorical Education
in Antiquity (M.-P. Noël)
- Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature. Éd. J. Wilberding et
C. Horn (M.-A. Gavray)
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(P. Destrée)
- Le savoir grec. Dictionnaire critique. Éd. J. Brunschwig, G. Lloyd,
P. Pellegrin
- Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques Vol. V: de Paccius à Rutilius
Rufus. 1re partie – Va: de Paccius à Plotin. Éd. R. Goulet
- Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques Vol. V: de Paccius à Rutilius
Rufus. 2e partie – Vb: de Plotina à Rutilis Rufus. Éd. R. Goulet
- Die Milesier: Anaximander und Anaximenes. Éd. G. Wöhrle
- Gianvittorio L., Il discorso di Eraclito. Un modello semantico e
cosmologico nel passaggio dall’oralità alla scrittura
- Rossetti L., Le dialogue socratique
- The Cambridge Companion to Socrates. Éd. D. R. Morrison
- Petraki Z., The Poetics of Philosophical Language. Plato, Poets
and Presocratics in the Republic
- Utopia, Ancient and Modern. Contributions to the History of a Political
Dream. Éd. F. L. Lisi
- Exhortation à la philosophie. Le dossier grec. Aristote. Trad. S. Van
Der Meeren
- Physique et métaphysique chez Aristote. Éd. M. Bonelli
- Aristotele, Poetica. Trad. D. Guastini
- Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200. An Introduction and
Collection of Sources in Translation. Éd. R. W. Sharpl es
- The Reception of Aristotle’s Ethics. Éd. J. Miller
Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian Studies. Essays in Honor of
Gerasimos Santas. Éd. G. Anagnostopoulos
- Plato, Aristotle, or both? Dialogues between Platonism and Aristotelianism
in Antiquity. Éd. T. Bénatouïl, E. Maff i, F. Trabattoni
- Plutarch, How to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis). Éd. R. Hunter
et D. Russell
- A Companion to Marcus Aurelius. Éd. M. van Ackeren
Trouillard J., La purification plotinienne
- Donini P., Commentary and Tradition. Aristotelianism, Platonism,
and Post-Hellenic Philosophy. Éd. M. Bonazzi
- Barnes J., Method and Metaphysics. Essays in Ancient Philosophy
I. Éd. M. Bonelli
- Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity. Éd. I. Sluiter et R. M. Rosen
- Poikilia. Variazioni sul tema. Éd. E. Berardi, F. L. Lisi, D. Micalell a
- A Companion to Greek Art. Éd. T. J. Smith et D. Plantzos
- Amis et ennemis en Grèce ancienne. Éd. J. Peigney
Konstan D., Before Forgiveness. The Origins of a Moral Idea
- Damet A., La septième porte. Les conflits familiaux dans l’Athènes
classique
- Gherchanoc F., L’oïkos en fête. Célébrations familiales et sociabilité
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- Zhmud L., Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans. Trad.
K. Windle et R. Ireland (J.-L. Périllié)
- Parmenides, Venerable and Awesome. Proceedings
of the International Symposium. Buenos Aires, October
29-November 2, 2007. Éd. N.-L. Cordero (S. Trépanier)
- Barnes J. et al., Zenone e l’infinito. Eleatica 2008. Éd. L. Rossetti
et M. Pulpito (C. Louguet)
- Santas G., Understanding Plato’s Republic (O. Renaut)
- Dialogues on Plato’s Politeia (Republic). Selected Papers from the
Ninth Symposium Platonicum. Éd. N. Notomi et L. Brisson
(F. Baghdassarian)
- Teisserenc F., Langage et image dans l’oeuvre de Platon (S. Delcomminette)
- Plato and the Poets. Éd. P. Destrée et F.-G. Herrmann (E. Grasso)
- The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle. Éd. J. L. Fink
(J.-B. Gourinat)
- Cherry K. M., Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics
(E. Rogan)
- Gotthelf A., Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in
Aristotle’s Biology (D. Lefebvre)
- Dudley J., Aristotle’s Concept of Chance. Accidents, Cause, Necessity,
and Determinism (M. Zingano)
- The Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck. The
Sixth S. V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. Éd.
F. Leigh (M. Zingano)
- Echeñique J, Aristotle’s Ethics and Moral Responsibility (M. Zingano)
- Reeve C. D. C., Action, Contemplation, and Happiness – an Essay
on Aristotle (M. Zingano)
- Curzer H. J., Aristotle & the Virtues (A. G. Vigo)
- Johansen T. K., The Powers of Aristotle’s Soul (M. D. Boeri)
- The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle. Éd. C. Shields (M. Zingano)
- Slote M., The Impossibility of Perfection. Aristotle, Feminism and
the Complexities of Ethics (P. Kontos)
- Giovacchini J., L’Empirisme d’Épicure (J. Devinant)
- Willms L., Epiktets Diatribe Über die Freiheit (4.1). Einleitung,
Übersetzung, Kommentar. Band 1 & 2 (J. Wilberger)
- Marwan Rashed, Alexandre d’Aphrodise, Commentaire perdu à la
Physique d’Aristote (Livres IV-VIII). Les scholies byzantines.
Édition, traduction et commentaire (G. Guyomarc’h)
- Iamblichus and the Foundations of Late Platonism. Éd. E. A fonasin,
J. Dillon, J. F. Finamore (M.‑A. Gavray)
- Metry-Tresson C., L’aporie ou l’expérience des limites de la pensée
dans le Péri Archôn de Damaskios (M.-A. Gavray)
- Walker J., The Genuine Teachers of this Art. Rhetorical Education
in Antiquity (M.-P. Noël)
- Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature. Éd. J. Wilberding et
C. Horn (M.-A. Gavray)
Notes bibliographiques
(P. Destrée)
- Le savoir grec. Dictionnaire critique. Éd. J. Brunschwig, G. Lloyd,
P. Pellegrin
- Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques Vol. V: de Paccius à Rutilius
Rufus. 1re partie – Va: de Paccius à Plotin. Éd. R. Goulet
- Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques Vol. V: de Paccius à Rutilius
Rufus. 2e partie – Vb: de Plotina à Rutilis Rufus. Éd. R. Goulet
- Die Milesier: Anaximander und Anaximenes. Éd. G. Wöhrle
- Gianvittorio L., Il discorso di Eraclito. Un modello semantico e
cosmologico nel passaggio dall’oralità alla scrittura
- Rossetti L., Le dialogue socratique
- The Cambridge Companion to Socrates. Éd. D. R. Morrison
- Petraki Z., The Poetics of Philosophical Language. Plato, Poets
and Presocratics in the Republic
- Utopia, Ancient and Modern. Contributions to the History of a Political
Dream. Éd. F. L. Lisi
- Exhortation à la philosophie. Le dossier grec. Aristote. Trad. S. Van
Der Meeren
- Physique et métaphysique chez Aristote. Éd. M. Bonelli
- Aristotele, Poetica. Trad. D. Guastini
- Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200. An Introduction and
Collection of Sources in Translation. Éd. R. W. Sharpl es
- The Reception of Aristotle’s Ethics. Éd. J. Miller
Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian Studies. Essays in Honor of
Gerasimos Santas. Éd. G. Anagnostopoulos
- Plato, Aristotle, or both? Dialogues between Platonism and Aristotelianism
in Antiquity. Éd. T. Bénatouïl, E. Maff i, F. Trabattoni
- Plutarch, How to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis). Éd. R. Hunter
et D. Russell
- A Companion to Marcus Aurelius. Éd. M. van Ackeren
Trouillard J., La purification plotinienne
- Donini P., Commentary and Tradition. Aristotelianism, Platonism,
and Post-Hellenic Philosophy. Éd. M. Bonazzi
- Barnes J., Method and Metaphysics. Essays in Ancient Philosophy
I. Éd. M. Bonelli
- Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity. Éd. I. Sluiter et R. M. Rosen
- Poikilia. Variazioni sul tema. Éd. E. Berardi, F. L. Lisi, D. Micalell a
- A Companion to Greek Art. Éd. T. J. Smith et D. Plantzos
- Amis et ennemis en Grèce ancienne. Éd. J. Peigney
Konstan D., Before Forgiveness. The Origins of a Moral Idea
- Damet A., La septième porte. Les conflits familiaux dans l’Athènes
classique
- Gherchanoc F., L’oïkos en fête. Célébrations familiales et sociabilité
en Grèce ancienne