Revue de SynthesePub Date : 2025-04-04DOI: 10.1163/19552343-14234071
Orna Harari
{"title":"Historical Versus Philosophical Context: Understanding Ancient Philosophy in Its Contexts.","authors":"Orna Harari","doi":"10.1163/19552343-14234071","DOIUrl":"10.1163/19552343-14234071","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through an examination of Eduard Zeller's and Michael Frede's historiographical approaches, I question the assumption that by placing philosophy in its historical context we can avoid anachronism. I argue that an exegetical approach that studies texts and places the discussions found therein in their philosophical contexts can minimize anachronism and offer a historically sensitive understanding. I clarify this claim through three case studies: the relation between John Philoponus' philosophy and theology, Aristotle's account of relatives, and Alexander of Aphrodisias' notion of mixture. In so doing, I distinguish contextualization that facilitates judgment from contextualization that facilitates understanding and show how the latter furthers our understanding of philosophical views in different ways.</p>","PeriodicalId":41264,"journal":{"name":"Revue de Synthese","volume":"146 1-2","pages":"176-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revue de SynthesePub Date : 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1163/19552343-14234062
Éric Brian
{"title":"Febvre's Climate of Sciences. When Human Geography Met Intellectual History.","authors":"Éric Brian","doi":"10.1163/19552343-14234062","DOIUrl":"10.1163/19552343-14234062","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although Lucien Febvre left exemplary works of economic and social history and of intellectual and religious history, to dissociate these two aspects of his work would be to overlook his most important methodological contribution in this second area: the concept of the \"climate of science\" or the \"climate\" of intellectual activity. In order to reconstruct its development from the 1920s to the 1940s, it is important to show how Febvre constructed a synthesis of proposals formulated by the philosopher Henri Berr, the psychologist Henri Wallon and the physicist Paul Langevin. He was opposed to Ratzel's deterministic approach to human geography and he considered that all innovative human activities were the result of probabilities of options within a spectrum of possibilities that it was then up to the historian to reconstruct.</p>","PeriodicalId":41264,"journal":{"name":"Revue de Synthese","volume":"146 1-2","pages":"25-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revue de SynthesePub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1163/19552343-14234066
Eva Telkes-Klein
{"title":"Histoire juive de la France, mode d’emploi au fil des pages.","authors":"Eva Telkes-Klein","doi":"10.1163/19552343-14234066","DOIUrl":"10.1163/19552343-14234066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41264,"journal":{"name":"Revue de Synthese","volume":" ","pages":"317-332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revue de SynthesePub Date : 2024-10-17DOI: 10.1163/19552343-14234060
Rémi Mermet
{"title":"Le style, encore et toujours.","authors":"Rémi Mermet","doi":"10.1163/19552343-14234060","DOIUrl":"10.1163/19552343-14234060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41264,"journal":{"name":"Revue de Synthese","volume":"145 3-4","pages":"311-323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142733300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revue de SynthesePub Date : 2024-10-17DOI: 10.1163/19552343-14234058
Cindy Gervolino
{"title":"Gestes et diagrammes: approches philosophiques, linguistiques et mathématiques.","authors":"Cindy Gervolino","doi":"10.1163/19552343-14234058","DOIUrl":"10.1163/19552343-14234058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41264,"journal":{"name":"Revue de Synthese","volume":"145 3-4","pages":"497-504"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142733291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revue de SynthesePub Date : 2024-04-24DOI: 10.1163/19552343-14234055
Fabrice Cahen, Christine Théré
{"title":"La fabrique des êtres. Reproduction, par-delà la nature et l’artifice (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle).","authors":"Fabrice Cahen, Christine Théré","doi":"10.1163/19552343-14234055","DOIUrl":"10.1163/19552343-14234055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41264,"journal":{"name":"Revue de Synthese","volume":"145 1-2","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140860885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revue de SynthesePub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1163/19552343-14234032
Pierre Vesperini
{"title":"Qu’est-ce que les logoi philosophoi? (Tome 144, 7e Série, n°3-4, (2023))","authors":"Pierre Vesperini","doi":"10.1163/19552343-14234032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/19552343-14234032","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Cet article présente pour la première fois une étude exhaustive d’un pratique de savoir fondamentale de l’Antiquité hellénistique et romaine : la pratique des logoi philosophoi, « discours » puisés à cette immense réserve de savoir encyclopédique qu’était la philosophia (qui était donc loin de se réduire à l’image « disciplinaire » que nous en avons aujourd’hui). L’examen des sources permet de dégager trois grands usages de ces logoi : un usage épidictique (où les logoi servent à « faire montre » de son savoir dans le cadre d’une conférence-spectacle) ; un usage éthique (où les logoi servent à « rester droit ») ; un usage social (où les logoi servent à « être ensemble »).","PeriodicalId":41264,"journal":{"name":"Revue de Synthese","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45518329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revue de SynthesePub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1163/19552343-14234039
Camille Chevalier
{"title":"Le problème éthique de l’obsequium politique chez Spinoza.Obéissance heureuse et émancipation par la raison (Tome 144, 7e Série, n°3-4, (2023))","authors":"Camille Chevalier","doi":"10.1163/19552343-14234039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/19552343-14234039","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Si Spinoza est aujourd’hui souvent mobilisé comme penseur de la liberté et de la potentia multitudinis dans une perspective critique des mécanismes de domination, la lettre du texte – bien plus conservatrice de l’ordre établi qu’elle n’y paraît dans ces lectures – nous enjoint d’examiner la positivité éthique d’une certaine obéissance spinoziste. L’obsequium, objet que nous nous proposons d’analyser dans cet article, désigne chez Spinoza l’obéissance déterminée par les affects. Comment un tel processus de conditionnement affectif peut-il donner lieu à une émancipation par la raison ? Seule une certaine complexion affective – l’hilaritas – dans la détermination à l’obéissance peut permettre d’envisager l’horizon politique du libre usage de la raison porté par la république du Traité théologico-politique. L’analyse du mécanisme d’obsequium nous invite à penser à nouveaux frais la question de notre consentement affectif dans la soumission à l’autorité pour déterminer à quelles conditions les progrès de notre faculté de raisonner ne sont pas empêchés. Il nous donne ainsi les conditions véritables de notre libération.","PeriodicalId":41264,"journal":{"name":"Revue de Synthese","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49604204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revue de SynthesePub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1163/19552343-14234040
É. Brian
{"title":"Depuis la philosophie, un siècle traversé","authors":"É. Brian","doi":"10.1163/19552343-14234040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/19552343-14234040","url":null,"abstract":"Près d’un siècle après la naissance d’Émile Durkheim, le décret du 2 avril 1958 instaurait dans l’enseignement supérieur français la licence de sociologie (JORF, 1958). C’est dire que, s’ils sont apparus en France dans les années 1960-1980 comme les fondateurs d’une nouvelle discipline, Durkheim et son école ont travaillé au sein même de la philosophie, entendant y mettre en œuvre « la méthode positive » selon l’expression du maître (Durkheim, 1895). Les nouveaux diplômés se sont empressés de renier cette origine et de proclamer ce qu’ils ont tenu pour l’accomplissement d’une autonomie à l’égard de la discipline mère. Or, Durkheim avait assumé un néo-kantisme qui en fit un interlocuteur du philosophe autrichien Wilhelm Jerusalem (1909) dans les colonnes de L’Année sociologique (Durkheim, 1910). Prochainement soutenue, la thèse de Martin Strauss mettra en évidence cet horizon européen commun et son importance (Strauss, 2023). Non seulement Durkheim s’est accordé avec Jerusalem sur les principes, mais ils donnaient tous deux à la sociologie des connaissances un impératif de contrôle de l’activité savante :","PeriodicalId":41264,"journal":{"name":"Revue de Synthese","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41747600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}