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Chargement... The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and Significance (2006)par André Laks
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In this short but extremely rich volume, André Laks examines the origins of the concept of Presocratic philosophy by investigating both its ancient and modern roots. The task is of no minor importance, especially considering how the use of this label has an impact on our expectations about this period of Greek thought and thereby the ways to approach it. In fact, the notion of ‘Presocratic philosophy’ (or of the ‘Presocratics’) generates a series of issues that make one wonder even about its legitimacy. It is exactly these issues that Laks presents and analyses throughout the six chapters of his book, in which he skillfully and eruditely navigates the history of the term itself by considering the methodological and philosophical assumptions which have informed ancient and modern views on the beginnings of Greek philosophy.
When 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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