Le droit des femmes

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Phronêsis and the Ideal of Beauty

Phronesis is a key concept of Aristotelian ethics. But how to understand the phronimos’s specific ability in relation to the action ? He is a good judge of what to do hic et nunc. According to Aristotle the phronimos deliberates and judges well; and he evaluates what to do by referring not only to the particular case but to universal. What is this relationship between a particular case and a universal if it differs from the relationship between the particular and the universal in a mathematical deduction? The hypothesis followed here is that the universal instance is rather a single ideal built by the imagination from a variety of unique experiences, on the model of the ideal of beauty described by KantPhronesis is a key concept of Aristotelian ethics. But how to understand the phronimos’s specific ability in relation to the action ? He is a good judge of what to do hic et nunc. According to Aristotle the phronimos deliberates and judges well; and he evaluates what to do by referring not only to the particular case but to universal. What is this relationship between a particular case and a universal if it differs from the relationship between the particular and the universal in a mathematical deduction? The hypothesis followed here is that the universal instance is rather a single ideal built by the imagination from a variety of unique experiences, on the model of the ideal of beauty described by Kan

The Struggle for Recognition and the Return of Primary Intersubjectivity

I argue that Axel Honneth (2012), reappropriated Colwyn Trevarthen\u27s distinction between primary and secondary intersubjectivity,into his critical social theory. How the concept of primary intersubjectivity gets re-incorporated, or indeed, re-cognized in Honneth’s conception of recognition, however, is a complex issue that Iexplore in this essay. It is linked to questions not only about child development, but also about whether one should understand recognition in terms of a summons (Aufforderung), following Fichte, or in terms of a struggle, as Honneth, following Hegel, suggests, or in terms of a gift, as Ricoeur, following Hénaff suggests

The Phenomenological Critique of Formalism: Responsibility and the Life-World

Self-responsibility and self-critique have been themes in philosophy since Plato ’s Socrates endorsed the demand to ‘know thyself’ [γvωθι σαυτοv]. In the modern philosophical tradition, self-critical reason, a reason that gives the law to itself, has been at the very centre of the practice of both epistemology and ethics . In the twentieth century, the European phenomenological philosophers Edmund Husserl and Jan Patočka brought new clarity and a sense of urgency to the critical thinking surrounding the need for responsibility . Using Husserl ’s and Patočka ’s thinking as the starting point for a critical reflection, this volume proposes different approaches to reflect upon the increasing formalisation of all aspects of our lives, which is particularly relevant for the present age