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Aristotle: Physics

“The fundamental book of Western physics,” said Heidegger about Aristotle’s Physics. Few works, it is true, will have had such a profound and lasting impact on our ways of thinking and, on one point at least, Heidegger is right: Aristotelian nature, in its opposition to the supernatural, to art and to history, is still our nature. By taking as its object the study of change, Physics delivers, in the shadow of the m…

Philosophy
Classical

Book

Plato: Phaedrus

How to speak, why write? This is what two Athenians are discussing, at the end of the 5th century BC, lying near a flowering chaste tree, in the shade of a plane tree under which a spring flows, on the banks of the Ilissos, a few hundred meters from the Acropolis. But how can we evoke the power of discourse without speaking of the reality which produces discourse and over which its power is exercised, the human soul…

Philosophy
Classical

Book 2003

Plotinus: Enneads IV

The fourth Ennead brings together nine treatises devoted to the soul: its essence, its immortality, its memory, its perception, its descent into the body and the question of the unity of all souls. Plotinus specifies the links between the individual soul, the Soul of the world and the intelligible world.

Philosophy
Classical

Book 2003

Plotinus: Enneads V

The fifth Ennead explores Intelligence, intelligible realities and their relationship with the One. His nine treatises describe the procession of beings from the first principle, the nature of Ideas and the way in which the soul can rise towards intelligible beauty.

Philosophy
Classical

Book 1748

Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“It is vain to pretend to teach the principles and contents of Hume's philosophy. And the problem is not to leave room for controversy, but to understand that we are not dealing with a system, that the principles are obscure and that the contents are skeptical. The career of commentary is indefinitely open, as long as one does not fall into dogmatism. Through a constantly deceptive rationality, Hume brings all those…

Philosophy
Classical

Book 1721

Montesquieu: Persian Letters

The East and the West, the seraglio and the salons, the intrigues of the sultanas and the coquetry of the Parisians, the muftis and the pope... This is what nourishes the correspondence maintained by Usbek and Rica, Persian lords who left to discover the France of Louis XIV, with their friends who remained in Isfahan. Under the cover of a distant gaze, Montesquieu draws up in the Persian Letters (1721) an uncomprom…

Essay
Philosophy
Classical