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8What Happened to the Philosopher Queens? On the “Disappearance” of Female Rulers in PlatoPlato’s StatesmanIn Isabelle Chouinard, Zoe McConaughey, Aline Medeiros Ramos & Roxane Noël (eds.), Women’s Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 61-90. 2021.Michèle Le Doeuff coined the term “déshérence” to describe a phenomenon affecting the relation of women to knowledge. Déshérence reflects the antithetical connection between women and value: if something is socially devalued, women may claim it; if something women already possess reveals itself as valuable, then they have to relinquish it. My article shows how Plato’s Statesman offers a perfect example of déshérence in its two complementary forms. But the article’s primary objective is to shed l…Read more
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18Socrates and Alcibiades: Plato’s Drama of Political Ambition and Philosophy by Ariel HelferJournal of the History of Philosophy 56 (2): 361-362. 2018.Helfer opens his book with a series of vigorous reflections that have the virtue of challenging some of the reader’s deeply seated beliefs concerning political emotions. While we moderns see political ambition mostly as a threat to the public good that needs to be checked, ancients, the author suggests, considered that passion in a positive light. Indeed, they regarded political ambition as the manifestation of a powerful desire to achieve noble deeds in the civic sphere, an aspiration they saw …Read more
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121Eros Tyrannos: Alcibiades as the Model of the Tyrant in Book IX of the RepublicInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 6 (1): 1-26. 2012.Abstract The aim of this article is to make use of recent research on `political eros ' in order to clarify the connection that Plato establishes between eros and tyranny in Republic IX, specifically by elucidating the intertextuality between Plato's work and the various historical accounts of Alcibiades. An examination of the lexicon used in these accounts will allow us to resolve certain interpretive difficulties that, to my knowledge, no other commentator has elucidated: why does Socrates bla…Read more
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26Savoir et gouverner: Essai sur la science politique platonicienne by Dimitri El MurrJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (1): 153-154. 2016.While specialists of the Platonic corpus often evoke the most remarkable passages of the Statesman or use it to trace the evolution of Plato’s political thought, few invite us to appreciate this difficult text itself. We can, therefore, only revel in the almost missionary zeal with which Dimitri El Murr champions this neglected dialogue in his Savoir et gouverner.The best way to appreciate the Statesman is to recognize its distinct contribution; and what sets this dialogue apart, according to El…Read more
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27Ce texte cherche à montrer que plusieurs allusions textuelles indiquent l'existence d'un lien significatif entre le Choeur de Dionysos et le νυκτερινὸς σύλλογος dans les Lois de Platon. Cette hypothèse inédite se trouve confirmée par un examen attentif des diverses correspondances entre les deux instances, examen qui permet en outre de préciser la nature de leur lien. Il semble d'abord que le Choeur de Dionysos ait pour rôle d'apporter un complément pédagogique de "musique appliquée" à l'élite p…Read more
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28Foucault contre l’Herméneutique de SoiProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 21 69-78. 2008.En 1981-82 Foucault a consacré son enseignement au Collège de France à la question du souci de soi antique. À ce cours, publié en 2001, il a donné le titre énigmatique d’«Herméneutique du sujet». Ma communication vise à élucider le sens de ce titre en montrant comment les travaux généalogiques entrepris par Foucault au cours des dernières années de sa vie visaient à combattre un mode de rapport à soi dominé par l’interprétation. Mon but consiste donc à montrer que si le dernier Foucault s’est co…Read more
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3Avoir choisi sa vie: le mythe d'Er comme expérience de penséeRevue de Philosophie Ancienne 27 (1): 87-108. 2009.
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30Saint Paul, Augustin et Aristote comme sources gréco-chrétiennes du souci chez HeideggerPhilosophie 2 (2): 30. 2001.
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1Du vin pour le College de veille? Mise en lumiere dun lien occulte entre le Choeur de Dionysos et le nuupsikappatauepsilonrhoiotanuomicronsigma sigmaupsilambdalambdaomicrongammaomicronsigma dans les Lois de PlatonPhronesis: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 48 (1): 29-53. 2003.
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35Being and Time and the Ancient Philosophical Tradition of Care for the Self: A Tense or Harmonious Relationship?Philosophical Papers 43 (1): 123-144. 2014.This text seeks to situate Being and Time in the line of the ancient philosophical tradition of care for self (epiméleia heautou). After a brief description of the main features of this tradition as portrayed by Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot, the author presents the elements of Being in Time in favour and those against such a link. Her hypothesis appears to encounter a major objection in the explicit refusal of Heidegger to speak of Selbstsorge. But an attentive examination of the meaning of …Read more
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Wolfgang Detel, Foucault and Classical Antiquity: Power, Ethics and KnowledgePhilosophy in Review 27 (2): 105. 2007.
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14Ce texte cherche à montrer que plusieurs allusions textuelles indiquent l'existence d'un lien significatif entre le Choeur de Dionysos et le νυκτ∊ρινος συλλογος dans les _Lois_ de Platon. Cette hypothèse inédite se trouve confirmée par un examen attentif des diverses correspondances entre les deux instances, examen qui permet en outre de préciser la nature de leur lien. Il semble d'abord que le Choeur de Dionysos ait pour rôle d'apporter un complément pédagogique de «musique appliquée» à l'élite…Read more
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Du souci à l'honneur de l'âme. Aspects de la τiμη dans les Lois de PlatonKairos (Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail. Faculté de philosophie) 19 111-127. 2002.
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