Search results for "Alcibiade"

Éros et Alétheia

2021

Dailleurs, la Révélation highlights a decisive distinction between the concept of aletheia, which is neutral and does not involve the will, and that of apokalypsis, the logic of which attests to the primacy of the wil which chooses because it loves and, in doing so, discovers the lover in the subject. Playing Christian truth against Greek truth, this distinction allows to think afresh about the truth of the Grecks, to the point of recognising exemplary cases of overflowing in which aletheia shows more than we would expect of it, and where the effects of apokalypsis are verified in aletheia itselt. Reversing the current pattern, the hermeneutics from which this distinction stems requires an …

L'essere supplito

2013

Intervenir à titre privé dans la diplomatie de sa cité : l'exemple de la paix de Nicias chez Thucydide

2013

Act on private basis in diplomacy of one’s own city. The example of Nicias’ peace in Thucydides. During the diplomatic exchanges related at the beginning of the fifth book, Thucydides shows two explicit private interventions using words connected with idia. First, two ephores, Cleoboulos and Xenares, make private propositions. Then, an Athenian, Alcibiades sends a private messenger. Whereas these two actions are unique in the fifth book, because Thucydides’ vocabulary is specific, some other citizens express opinions different from the majority decisions. Some of them act against the policy of their City. Self-interest may incite some citizens to participate in civic action, and the private…