The Platonic theory of doxa.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 18751 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 580 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
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The term doxa in ancient Greek has two meanings: that of appearance - what appears to me objectively -, and that of opinion - what subjectively seems to me to be the case. In the dialogues, Plato opposes doxa, opinion, whose sources are diverse - popular culture and sophistic teaching in particular - to logos, reason; this first opposition contains the seeds of a philosophical opposition, decisive for Plato, between doxa and science, episteme, whose different aspects the author analyzes in two early dialogues, the Meno and the Gorgias, in the main dialogue of his maturity, the Republic, and in two dialogues of his last period, the Theaetetus and the Sophist. These analyses reveal the two main qualities of Yvon Lafrance as an interpreter: probity and benevolence. Taking into account the evolution of Plato's thought, whose literary and pre-Socratic background he reveals, he places all the passages studied in their context, and takes into consideration all contemporary research on the subject. This is why this book includes a hundred pages more than the original work. Yvon Lafrance cites and comments on the main studies (in at least five languages) published on the subject between 1975 and 2003; and, in an afterword, he takes a position on the new trends in the interpretation of dialogues. For his part, Luc Brisson completes this work by proposing a bibliographical supplement from 2003 to 2013, and an afterword which specifies the interpretative approach adopted by Yvon Lafrance. This new edition can therefore be considered an original contribution.
The term doxa in ancient Greek has two meanings: that of appearance - what appears to me objectively -, and that of opinion - what subjectively seems to me to be the case. In the dialogues, Plato opposes doxa, opinion, whose sources are diverse - popular culture and sophistic teaching in particular - to logos, reason; this first opposition contains the seeds of a philosophical opposition, decisive for Plato, between doxa and science, episteme, whose different aspects the author analyzes in two early dialogues, the Meno and the Gorgias, in the main dialogue of his maturity, the Republic, and in two dialogues of his last period, the Theaetetus and the Sophist. These analyses reveal the two main qualities of Yvon Lafrance as an interpreter: probity and benevolence. Taking into account the evolution of Plato's thought, whose literary and pre-Socratic background he reveals, he places all the passages studied in their context, and takes into consideration all contemporary research on the subject. This is why this book includes a hundred pages more than the original work. Yvon Lafrance cites and comments on the main studies (in at least five languages) published on the subject between 1975 and 2003; and, in an afterword, he takes a position on the new trends in the interpretation of dialogues. For his part, Luc Brisson completes this work by proposing a bibliographical supplement from 2003 to 2013, and an afterword which specifies the interpretative approach adopted by Yvon Lafrance. This new edition can therefore be considered an original contribution.