Papers by Anthony Bonnemaison
Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought
In the Republic, philosophy is associated with lawfulness, while tyranny and other corrupted regi... more In the Republic, philosophy is associated with lawfulness, while tyranny and other corrupted regimes and individuals are associated with various degrees of lawlessness. So why does Socrates explain that the curriculum addressed to the philosophers of the ideal city brings about a risk of lawlessness among the potential philosopher-rulers? This is due to a specific step of this curriculum, the practice of refutation, which causes an intellectual as well as moral distress that can lead to skepticism and in fine to lawlessness. Although this risk needs to be reduced to a minimum, it has to be taken because the philosophical natures should be able to survive all challenges in order to become genuine dialecticians. Therefore, philosophy can lead to lawlessness but even when it does not, it is nonetheless true that the requirements of philosophy take priority over lawfulness.
L’ouvrage prend pour objet la question complexe de la relation entre le plaisir et la pensee chez... more L’ouvrage prend pour objet la question complexe de la relation entre le plaisir et la pensee chez Platon. Il s’agit de montrer comment la pensee intelligente peut avoir prise sur le plaisir, mais egalement la facon dont cet illimite qu’est le plaisir peut resister jusqu’au bout a la philosophie. Dans cette mesure, la pensee met le plaisir a l’epreuve en se posant comme sa verite, mais le plaisir met tout autant a l’epreuve la puissance de la pensee sur les âmes. Cette double problematique, qu...
Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought
Revue de philosophie ancienne
Journal issues by Anthony Bonnemaison
Polis. The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 38.3, 2021
In June 2019, Melissa Lane (Princeton University) and I, Dimitri El Murr, assisted by two of our ... more In June 2019, Melissa Lane (Princeton University) and I, Dimitri El Murr, assisted by two of our doctoral students, Anthony Bonnemaison and René de Nicolay, organized a conference at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris entitled ‘Legislation and lawgiving: philo- sophical perspectives on Antiquity’. Our aim with this conference was to offer new philosophical perspectives on lawgiving (the issuing or writing of real or imagined constitutions for specific peoples) and more generally on legislation in classical antiquity; but we also sought to cover as much historical ground as possible, taking into account a wide range of philosophical traditions, from the Presocratics to Hellenistic philosophers and late Neoplatonists, with a special focus on the different conceptions these traditions develop of the legislator, from a critical as well as a positive point of view.
Contributors: A. Sorensen (Univ. Copenhagen), P. Horky (Univ; Durham), A. Bonnemaison (ENS Paris), D. El Murr (ENS Paris), M. Schofield (Univ. Cambridge), M.L. Bartels (Univ. Pisa), R. de Nicolay (ENS-Paris/Princeton), S. Sauvé Meyer (Univ. Pennsylvania), M.-K. Lee (Univ. Colorado, Boulder), K.M. Vogt (Columbia Univ.), S. Marchand (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Univ.), V. Arena (UCL London), D. O'Meara (Univ. Fribourg, Switzerland)
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Papers by Anthony Bonnemaison
Journal issues by Anthony Bonnemaison
Contributors: A. Sorensen (Univ. Copenhagen), P. Horky (Univ; Durham), A. Bonnemaison (ENS Paris), D. El Murr (ENS Paris), M. Schofield (Univ. Cambridge), M.L. Bartels (Univ. Pisa), R. de Nicolay (ENS-Paris/Princeton), S. Sauvé Meyer (Univ. Pennsylvania), M.-K. Lee (Univ. Colorado, Boulder), K.M. Vogt (Columbia Univ.), S. Marchand (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Univ.), V. Arena (UCL London), D. O'Meara (Univ. Fribourg, Switzerland)
Contributors: A. Sorensen (Univ. Copenhagen), P. Horky (Univ; Durham), A. Bonnemaison (ENS Paris), D. El Murr (ENS Paris), M. Schofield (Univ. Cambridge), M.L. Bartels (Univ. Pisa), R. de Nicolay (ENS-Paris/Princeton), S. Sauvé Meyer (Univ. Pennsylvania), M.-K. Lee (Univ. Colorado, Boulder), K.M. Vogt (Columbia Univ.), S. Marchand (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Univ.), V. Arena (UCL London), D. O'Meara (Univ. Fribourg, Switzerland)