A Uvres De Platon Volume 1

This book studies a central but hitherto neglected aspect of Rousseau's political thought: the concept of social order and its implications for the ideal society which he envisages. The antithesis between order and disorder is a fundamental theme in Rousseau's work, and the author takes it as the basis for this study. In contrast with a widely held interpretation of Rousseau's philosophy, Professor Viroli argues that natural and political order are by no means the same for Rousseau. He explores the differences and interrelations between the different types of order which Rousseau describes, and shows how the philosopher constructed his final doctrine of the just society, which can be based only on every citizen's voluntary and knowing acceptance of the social contract and on the promotion of virtue above ambition. The author also shows the extent of Rousseau's debt to the republican tradition, and above all to Machiavelli, and revises the image of Rousseau as a disciple of the natural-law school.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

This work aims to clarify the distinctive character of the French Revolution by tracing the philosophical sources of its rhetoric and comparing it to that of the American Revolution.

Platon avait 20 ans lorsqu'il fit la rencontre de Socrate : sa vie autant que la philosophie, en furent bouleversees. Fils de bonne famille, fin rheteur et bon gymnase, Platon etait tout destine a la politique qu'il abandonna pour suivre son maitre : la cite avait perdu un dirigeant et gagne un philosophe. La tentation politique est d'ailleurs loin d'etre absente des preoccupations de Platon, comme en temoigne, outre La Republique, ses voyages aupres du tyran de Sicile, Denys de Syracuse. A la mort de Socrate, le philosophe devient ecrivain : a partir de cette epoque Platon se met a ecrire, d'abord pour mettre en scene les paroles de son mentor. Dans ces premiers ecrits, Socrate est tour a tour confronte au sophiste Hippias, auquel il apprend que la plus precieuse des connaissances est de ne rien savoir, au bel Alcibiade a qui est commente le fameux connais-toi toi-meme inscrit sur le fronton du temple de Delphes, au pretre Euthyphron, et surtout, dans l'Apologie de Socrate, a Melitos et Anytos, les accusateurs qui le firent condamner. Ces dialogues de jeunesse evoquent avec vivacite et nostalgie le maitre tant admire et qui vient de disparaitre. Ce volume, qui regroupe, Hippias Mineur, Alcibiade, Euthyphron, l'Apologie de Socrate, Criton et Euthyphron ouvre notre edition des oeuvres Completes de Platon. En guise d'introduction, il contient une riche biographie de Platon, accompagnee d'une d'une histoire de la tradition manuscrite ainsi que d'un classement des dialogues. Chaque texte est precede d'une notice qui lui est propre. Celle-ci presente le contexte philosophique, historique et politique, tandis que les personnages, fictifs ou reels, font l'objet d'une attention particuliere, a commencer par Socrate dont la vie est relatee dans la notice de l'Apologie. Outre ces eclaircissements, de judicieuses pistes de reflexion sont proposees, tant litteraires que philosophiques. L'ouvrage est enfin enrichi de notes qui accompagnent la lecture. Texte etabli et traduit par Maurice Croiset.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Alan Charles Kors / Just and Arbitrary Authority in Enlightenment Thought -- 2. Richard Kennington / Bacon's Reform of Nature -- 3. Pamela Kraus / Method and Metaphysics: The Foundation of Philosophy in the Discourse on Method -- 4. Robert P. Kraynak / Hobbes and the Dogmatism of the Enlightenment -- 5. John C. Mccarthy / Pascal on Certainty and Utility -- 6. Paul J. Bagley / Spinoza, Biblical Criticism, and the Enlightenment -- 7. Philippe Raynaud / Leibniz, Reason -- and Evil -- 8. F.J. Crosson / Hume's Unnatural Religion (Some Humean Footnotes) -- 9. Terence E. Marshall / Poetry and Praxis in Rousseau's Emile: Human Rights and the Sentiment of Humanity -- 10. Kenneth L. Schmitz / Lessing at God's Left Hand -- 11. John R. Silber / Kant and the Mythic Roots of Morality -- 12. Nicholas Capaldi / The Enlightenment Project in Twentieth-Century Philosophy -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index

With Ascent to the Beautiful, William H. F. Altman completes his five-volume reconstruction of the Reading Order of the Platonic dialogues. This book covers Plato’s elementary dialogues, grappling from the start with F. D. E. Schleiermacher, who created an enduring prejudice against the works Plato wrote for beginners. Recognized in antiquity as the place to begin, Alcibiades Major was banished from the canon but it was not alone: with the exception of Protagoras and Symposium, Schleiermacher rejected as inauthentic all seven of the dialogues this book places between them. In order to prove their authenticity, Altman illuminates their interconnections and shows how each prepares the student to move beyond self-interest to gallantry, and thus from the doctrinal intellectualism Aristotle found in Protagoras to the emergence of philosophy as intermediate between wisdom and ignorance in Symposium, en route to Diotima’s ascent to the transcendent Beautiful. Based on the hypothesis that it was his own eminently teachable dialogues that Plato taught—and bequeathed to posterity as his Academy’s eternal curriculum—Ascent to the Beautiful helps the reader to imagine the Academy as a school and to find in Plato the brilliant teacher who built on Homer, Thucydides, and Xenophon.