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Introduction À La Lecture De Platon ; Suivi De Entretiens Sur Descartes

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A compact and lucid introduction to the work of Plato by an outstanding French scholar. Without attempting either an exposition or a full interpretation of Plato´s philosophy, the author draws on four of the great dialogues (Theaetetus, Meno, Protagoras, Republic) for illustrative material. Emphasizing the union of politics and philosophy in Plato, Koyré shows how the reader must find his own solutions to the philosophical problems raised in the dialogues.

240 pages, Paperback

Published March 21, 1991

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Alexandre Koyré

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Aleksandr Vladimirović Kojre, published as Alexandre Koyré was a philosopher and historian of science. He contributed to the development of the history of science in France and to its diffusion in the United States after the Second World War.

In the 1930's, Koyré began the research that made him one of the most eminent historians of twentieth century scientific thought, the first phase of which ended before the Second World War with the publication of the three volumes of Galilean Studies. Koiré became one of the protagonists of French historical epistemology, a new discipline that claimed to study the history of scientific thought as such and as a whole.

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October 14, 2013
Finished reading the Japanese translation of the first part which was issued as Discovering Plato in English. Concision is its virtue. Koyre examines the significance of the dialogue form using Menon, Protagoras and Theaetetus then plunges into the key themes of the Republic: the state, morality, education, politics , etc. Sometimes a clarity of the overall picture is a useful thing and this book provides that.
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August 17, 2025
C’est trop bon. Un très beau commentaire sur quelques dialogues platoniciennes, aussi sur la figure historique de Socrates, Platon et les sophistes, qui donne une image générale de son parcours et, en fait, de sa défaite. Mais où Koyré excelle, donné qu’il est finalement un philosophe de la science, est dans son raconte de Descartes, qui combine sa vie, son context historique —essentiel pour comprendre le pourquoi de cette philosophie fondationnelle— et fait, donc, une lecture par dehors des principaux textes cartésiennes. Ce n’est qu’à ce moment, en ayant lu autant Descartes que Koyré, que j’ai compris la vraie signification de cette étrange philosophie du doute et de la science qui prend comme fonement à Dieu, en ayant “prouvé” son existence. Définitif. Une métaphysique qui dot légitimer la nouvelle science physique, qui a besoin d’un monde mathematisé pour fonctionner, un monde mécanique qui nous a été légué et duquel on fait de grands éfforts pour s’en sortir.
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November 18, 2021
La partie sur Platon est excellente, une bonne introduction une bonne façon d'introduire le philosophe et les dialogues, leurs enjeux. J'ai lu la République de suite après !
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