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English summary: Some view Plato (428/427 BC - 348/347 BC) as the disciple who betrayed his master Socrates, others as someone who could have been a Sophist but would have failed to resolve debates, or even as the advocate of a "world of ideas" in which idealism's divagations originated, or ultimately as a reactionary aristocrat opposed to democracy's vulgarities. In short, people may wish to "overthrow Plato," but such a tenacious vow is offset by the significance of his philosophy, which was not only ground-breaking, but encyclopaedic in scope. The power behind Ronald Bonan's book is that he managed to find a way for us to embrace its consistency, and to show how the search for humanity's greatest virtues required, according to Plato, abstracting values from every form of contestation by basing them upon the absolute, thus joining the ethical aim to the seeking of absolutely true knowledge. To the Socratic idea that "to know good is to do good," Plato added a philosophy of ideas which made Good intelligible while inferring its entire scale of values. Since this is no simple task, Ronald Bonan demonstrates the challenges stemming from this Platonic institutional act: the status of Truth, the prospect of attaining it (or not) through scientific means, the nature of our errors to which our wanderings correspond, and the thorny status of non-being. Before occupying all of Western metaphysics, such difficulties had already thrust Platonism into a crisis and given rise to highly speculative dialogues aimed at overcoming them. Convinced of the philosopher's political destiny, Plato placed all such problems in the framework of the Polis, which he believed to be humankind's most effective educational tool (paideia). Therefore politics, no more than ethics, can be separated from ontology. The book thus points out the scientific, ethical and political ramifications of metaphysical theories, before concluding with thoughts on Plato's posterity and on the main thrusts of his legacy. French description: Platon (c.428-c.347 av. J.-C.) est le nom propre qui signe l'avenement de la philosophie comme telle. Y sont attaches une methode - le dialogue et, a sa suite, la dialectique -, ainsi qu'un objectif: celui de fonder le savoir vrai et la conduite juste sur des principes premiers. Ontologie et deontologie trouvent la leur acte de naissance; elles sont un discours raisonne tenu de se justifier par une argumentation rigoureuse.Prolongeant de maniere personnelle la lecon ethique de Socrate, les dialogues de Platon inscrivent le Bien dans une philosophie des Idees qui s'interroge sur la teneur de la verite, la possibilite de l'atteindre ou non par la science, la nature des erreurs dont derivent nos errances, le statut epineux du non-etre. Convaincu du fondement metaphysique de tout etat de choses, Platon ouvre simultanement des reflexions sur la justice, la cite ideale, l'amour, la beaute et le plaisir, qui seront autant de cadres pour la philosophie morale et politique a venir.Le present livre explore la coherence de la construction platonicienne en soulignant le pouvoir qu'ont les dialogues de mettre le lecteur sur le chemin de leurs theses et d'ouvrir l'espace argumentatif de leur discussion. Le platonisme se montre ainsi sous son meilleur jour, celui d'une philosophie en prise sur le reel.
About the Author: Agrege et docteur en philosophie, Ronald Bonan (ne en 1961) enseigne actuellement en C.P.G.E. scientifiques au Lycee Vauvenargues d'Aix-en-Provence ainsi qu'au Departement de Philosophie de l'Universite de Provence (A.M.U.) ou il prepare les etudiants aux concours d'enseignement et dispense un cours d'esthetique. Il est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages et articles en histoire de la philosophie (sur Merleau-Ponty, la science, l'esthetique) ainsi que de romans et pieces de theatre (Le Canape, Creation au theatre de Lenche a Marseille en 2010; Ambulances, Coaraze, L'Amourier, 2005) rapportant la courte mais marquante periode de sa vie ou il a change de langue en passant brusquement de l'italien au francais). Il a recemment publie aux Belles Lettres en 2011, Merleau-Ponty, chez Ellipses en 2011, Apprendre a philosopher avec Merleau-Ponty, aux Editions Aleas en 2009, Pourquoi voyager avec Rimbaud ? Dialogues sur la realite des apparences.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9782251760797
  • Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
  • Publisher Imprint: Les Belles Lettres
  • Height: 189 mm
  • No of Pages: 238
  • Series Title: Figures Du Savoir
  • Weight: 750 gr
  • ISBN-10: 2251760792
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: French
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Width: 124 mm


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