Interroger les Grecs: Études sur les Présocratiques, Platon et Aristote

摘要

The editors should also be commended for their scholarly apparatus - the introduction does a superb job of situating the essays in terms of Gadamer's corpus, the Notes du traducteur after each essay are uniformly helpful, key terms are left in German when there is any doubt as to their meaning, and the translator succeeds admirably in capturing the rhythm and feel of Gadamer's expansive German sentences. In the fifth essay, "La pensée utopique de Platon," the degeneration of the Republic's ideal city is shown to derive ultimately from the inevitable errors that occur when philosopher-kings apply their calculations to the sensory world, thus illustrating the inherent limits of applying abstract thought to practical calculation - and also thereby refuting those readings of Plato which construe him as a precursor to fascism or totalitarianism.