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82Freedom, liberality, and liberty in Plato's lawsSocial Philosophy and Policy 24 (2): 130-152. 2007.This essay aims at establishing that the word “free” (eleutheros) and related terms are used by Plato in the Laws in two main senses. There is, first, the constitutional meaning of “freedom” which is put to work in book 3 in order to analyze moderately good and degenerate forms of historical constitutions. Strikingly enough, this meaning does not play any subsequent role in the shaping of the Platonic constitution itself—a fact which requires some kind of explanation. There is, then, scattered t…Read more
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65Between Religion and Philosophy: the Function of Allegory in the Derveni PapyrusPhronesis 42 (2): 121-142. 1997.
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63Legislation and Demiurgy: On the Relationship between Plato's "Republic" and "Laws"Classical Antiquity 9 (2): 209-229. 1990.
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53Écriture, prose et les débuts de la philosophie grecqueMethodos 1 (1): 131-151. 2001.Cet article est disponible en texte intégral en format PDF
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45Traditions of theology: studies in Hellenistic theology: its background and aftermath (edited book)Brill. 2001.This collection of articles presents the views of the different philosophical schools of the Hellenistic area on various theological topics such as on the ...
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44Speculating about Diogenes of ApolloniaIn Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.This article takes up Diogenes again, investigating some of the reasons Diogenes has been unappreciated, and making a case for Diogenes' mind-based teleology as a significant philosophical contribution. The sophists, too, have suffered from the charge, which goes back to Plato, of not being “real” philosophers. Diogenes did not bother himself with, or was not interested in, showing in what sense the world is organized in the best possible manner; this looked to him as something that happened as …Read more
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38Early Greek philosophy (edited book)Harvard University Press. 2016.The works of the early Greek philosophers are not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and the whole of ancient philosophy, but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This nine-volume edition presents all the major fragments from the sixth to the fourth centuries BC.
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33Justice and generosity: studies in Hellenistic social and political philosophy: proceedings of the Sixth Symposium Hellenisticum (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1995.Hegel's often-echoed verdict on the apolitical character of philosophy in the Hellenistic age is challenged in this collection of new essays, originally presented at the sixth meeting of the Symposium Hellenisticum. An international team of leading scholars reveals a vigorous intellectual scene of great diversity: analyses of political leadership and the Roman constitution in Aristotelian terms; Cynic repudiation of the polis - but accommodation with its rulers; Stoic and Epicurean theories of j…Read more
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32Athens in Paris. Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-war French Thought (review)The Classical Review 57 (2): 286-290. 2007.
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27La naissance du paradigme herméneutique: de Kant et Schleiermacher à Dilthey (edited book)Presses universitaires du Septentrion. 2008.La première édition de La Naissance du paradigme herméneutique remonte à 1990.
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26Una insistencia de Platón: a propósito de la “verdadera tragedia”Journal of Ancient Philosophy 5 (2). 2011.
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21Médiation et coercition: pour une lecture des lois de PlatonPresses universitaires du septentrion. 2005.Les Lois de Platon constituent une œuvre majeure dans l'histoire de la pensée politique.
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21What is cognitive in metaphor according to Aristotle?Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 30 03032-03032. 2020.In the _Poetics_, Aristotle, defines metaphor as the transfer of a term from a given, foreign domain to another one. If, as does the classical doctrine of tropes, we consider that it substitutes the ‘proper’ term, the metaphor has a purely ornamental value and we can do without it. Modern theories insist, on the contrary, on the cognitive value of the metaphor: because it offers a re-description of the world, the metaphor is “alive”. The question is to what extent this cognitive conception of me…Read more
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18Les fonctions de l'intellectMethodos 2 7-31. 2002.Cet article est disponible en texte intégral en format PDF.
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189. Private matters in Plato’s LawsIn Christoph Horn (ed.), Platon: Gesetze/Nomoi, De Gruyter. pp. 165-188. 2013.
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17Les fonctions de l'intellectMethodos 2. 2002.Cet article est disponible en texte intégral en format PDF
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16The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and SignificancePrinceton University Press. 2018.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…Read more
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14Le terme de « rationalisation », qui renvoie à un processus menant de l’« irrationnel » au « rationnel », prend deux valeurs opposées, selon que le processus en question est considéré comme objectif ou subjectif, légitime ou non. Le développement d’une nouvelle forme de rationalité en Grèce ancienne (la philosophie) et son historiographie postérieure présentent souvent des tensions intéressantes entre les deux options. Avons-nous affaire au « phénomèn » originel, dont la raison, malgré qu’elle e…Read more
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13Aristotle's Metaphysics Beta: Symposium Aristotelicum (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2009.Nine leading scholars of ancient philosophy from Europe, the UK, and North America offer a systematic study of Book Beta of Aristotle's Metaphysics. The work takes the form of a series of aporiai or 'difficulties' which Aristotle presents as necessary points of engagement for those who wish to attain wisdom. The topics include causation, substance, constitution, properties, predicates, and generally the ontology of both the perishable and the imperishable world. Each contributor discusses one or…Read more
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13Destructible Worlds in an Aristotelian Scholion (Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Lost Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, Frag. 539 Rashed)Elenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 39 (2): 403-420. 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’sPhysics(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 Ra…Read more
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13Dire, Démontrer, Convaincre (edited book)Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 2004.La revue publie des numéros thématiques, mais telle n'est pas son unique destination. Son ambition est en effet d'être l'écho des recherches en cours, aussi bien de celles de chercheurs confirmés que de jeunes chercheurs.
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12Nietzsche et la question des successions des anciens philosophes. Vers un réexamen du statut de la philologie chez le jeune NietzscheNietzsche Studien 39 (1): 244-254. 2010.Bien que Nietzsche n'ait cessé de se réclamer de la phlologie, il cessa un jour de pratiquer ce qu'on appelle cemmunément ainsi. Quel fut, pour Nietzsche, le statut de cette philologie-là? le présent article cherche à répondre à cette question, en étudiant un text qui n'a guèrre été commenté, les Diadokhai des Philosophes préplatoniciens, rédigé en 1873/4. A la différence de autres études laetiennes de Nietzsche, où la Quellenforschung semble ètre pratiquée pour elle-même, la «recherche des sour…Read more
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11La naissance du paradigme herméneutique: Schleiermacher, Humboldt, Boeckh, DroysenPresses Universitaires du Septentrion. 1990.
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11Justice and Generosity: Studies in Hellenistic Social and Political Philosophy - Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium Hellenisticum (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1995.Hegel's often-echoed verdict on the apolitical character of philosophy in the Hellenistic age is challenged in this collection of essays, originally presented at the sixth meeting of the Symposium Hellenisticum. An international team of leading scholars reveals a vigorous intellectual scene of great diversity: analyses of political leadership and the Roman constitution in Aristotelian terms; Cynic repudiation of the polis - but accommodation with its rulers; Stoic and Epicurean theories of justi…Read more