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Béatrice Bakhouche, Calcidius. Commentaire au Timée de Platon
On peut difficilement contester lâimportance de la traduction du TimĂ©e (17a-53c) par un certain Calcidius, accompagnĂ©e dâun commentaire dâune section plus courte (31c-53c), datant du ive siĂšcle de notre Ăšre. Comme le note BĂ©atrice Bakhouche (p. 58), ce texte est, avec le Commentaire au Songe de Scipion de Macrobe, les Noces de Mercure et Philologie de Martianus Capella et la Consolation de Philosophie de BoĂšce, un des quatre « maĂźtres-livresâ» qui ont assurĂ© la transmission de lâhĂ©ritage phil..
David Sedley, Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity
Dans cet ouvrage important et original, David Sedley examine les systĂšmes philosophiques de lâAntiquitĂ© qui dĂ©fendent lâidĂ©e dâune cause divine pour lâoriÂgine du monde (dâoĂč la notion de creationism) et ceux qui nâadmettent pas une intervention de ce genre. Le livre comporte sept chapitres, sur Anaxagore, EmpĂ©docle, Socrate, Platon, les atomistes (DĂ©mocrite et Ăpicure), Aristote, et les stoĂŻciens, avec un Ă©pilogue sur Galien. Le livre est dĂ©jĂ lâun des plus discutĂ©s sur ce sujet, et a ouvert..
âWhen we walk out, what was it all about?â: Views on new beginnings from within the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
The 1994 United Nations Security Council resolution which created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) foresaw it marking a ânew beginningâ, both locally (peace and reconciliation in Rwanda) and globally (strengthening the project of international criminal justice). Over time, those who spoke on behalf of the ICTR highlighted the strictly quantifiable (number of arrests, convictions) and the contributions to the global ânew beginningâ for international criminal justice. Ethnographic fieldwork at the ICTR, however, revealed that lawyers and judges, enmeshed in the Tribunal's institutional order, held diverse views regarding local and global efficacy, refracted through the sense of power(lessness) that accompanied their respective institutional locations. Focusing on the attitude of judges and lawyers to the lack of indictments for members of the Rwandan Patriotic Army for alleged massacres in 1994 and accusations of âvictor's justiceâ, this article distinguishes between the ICTR as a disembodied institution that did or did not mark local or global ânew beginningsâ, and the ICTR as a collection of situated persons negotiating their simultaneous empowerment and disempowerment
Out of weakness: the âeducational goodâ in late antiquity
This paper explores the nature of the educational good as it appears in late antiquity, arguing that the âgoodâ variously promised by education is in a state of perpetual deferral. This extends the tradition of ancient Greek philosophy where wisdom is to be forever approached but never realised. Three exemplary cases are considered: the educational good as it appears under the auspices of the Roman tutor; as it is manifested in Christian baptismal practices; and as it is practiced in early Christian monasticism. To lure willing subjects into an educational relationship whose fruits will ultimately never be realised, the educator must respectively employ techniques of seduction, suspicion and diversion
Gardens of happiness: Sir William Temple, temperance and China
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this recordSir William Temple, an English statesman and humanist, wrote âUpon the
Gardens of Epicurusâ in 1685, taking a neo-epicurean approach to happiness
and temperance. In accord with Pierre Gassendiâs epicureanism, âhappinessâ is
characterised as freedom from disturbance and pain in mind and body, whereas
âtemperanceâ means following nature (Providence and oneâs physiopsychological constitution). For Temple, cultivating fruit trees in his garden was
analogous to the threefold cultivation of temperance as a virtue in the humoral
body (as food), the mind (as freedom from the passions), and the bodyeconomic (as circulating goods) in order to attain happiness. A regimen that was
supposed to cure the malaise of Restoration amidst a crisis of unbridled
passions, this threefold cultivation of temperance underlines Templeâs reception
of China and Confucianism wherein happiness and temperance are highlighted.
Thus Templeâs âgardens of happinessâ represent not only a reinterpretation of
classical ideas, but also his dialogue with China.European CommissionLeverhulme Trus
Herophilus and Erasistratus on the hÄgemonikon
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record.In Alexandria at some point in the early third century bc, Herophilus of Chalcedon identified the nerves as a distinct system within the body, traced their origins to the brain, and recognised their role in transmitting sensation and voluntary motion. His discovery was based on dissection and vivisection, not only of animals, but also of human beings. Herophilusâ younger contemporary Erasistratus also integrated these findings into his rather bolder physiology. The implications of this discovery were of course wide-ranging. From a modern perspective, it is now widely celebrated as having established, for the first time on something like a scientific basis, that the brain has more or less the functions that we now ascribe to it. Likewise, in antiquity, Galen relied heavily on Herophilusâ discovery in his proof that the rational soul is located in the brain. As we shall see, it also had an impact on Stoic psychology. What exactly Herophilus and Erasistratus saw as its implications, however, is a different question, and the difficulties in answering it are considerable given the state of the evidence
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, Capetown, Juta & Co, 1998
Reydams Luc. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, Capetown, Juta & Co, 1998. In: Revue Québécoise de droit international, volume 15-1, 2002. pp. 241-244
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