Diogenes articles from December 2000

Diogenes archives from December 2000

De interpretatione: commented biography of Euclid. *.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... For Vanessa, these interpretations Prologue It is said that all philosophy is nothing other than a commentary on Plato. Maybe. But was not Plato himself a commentary on Parmenides, Heraclitus, the Pythagoreans, and the...

Common and proper: an attempt to answer the question `what is philosophy?'.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... There is even a paradox in the name of philosophy. (1) Philosophy would rather love wisdom than have it. This is what exasperates those who interrogate it for answers and not questions. But this love must not be unhappy: being satisfied with...

Challenges of philosophy and challenges to philosophy.
December 22, 2000... During an interview on human rights in a TV programme, the interviewer all of a sudden said that, so far as he could understand, I was establishing a connection between philosophy and torture, and asked me what this connection was. I was...

Philosophy for children.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... According to Aristotle virtues, both ethical and intellectual, are [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]. As is well known, we acquire our [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], and especially those deepest rooted ones, in an early age. ...

On the educational missions of philosophy.
December 22, 2000... One of the most important issues concerning the organization of research and higher education concerns their interaction. The most common form that this relationship of research and education takes in our time and age is to have both functions...

An interview with Jaakko Hintikka.(Interview)
December 22, 2000... 1) The new biogenetic researches, for example cloning, present once again the ticklish question of the relationship between `science and ethics'. What is your opinion about this? And what part, do you think, `philosophy' plays in this debate?...

Continuity of political philosophy: war and peace in secularized politics.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... I propose to examine here, at the outset, what I call the asymmetry in Thomas Hobbes's thought between his treatment of civil war and war between states, that is to say, between the departure from the state of nature -- when that is a condition...

Some issues around the double language of philosophers' courage in the face of experience.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... In memory of Jacques Moutaux Inspector in Philosophy The philosopher's stances We have never come face to face with `Philosophy', that goddess who was courted, scorned, hated, and betrayed throughout history by those who claimed to...

Reform liberalism reconsidered.
December 22, 2000... I The liberal-communitarian debates, which became prominent in social and political philosophy during the 1980s, continue to be waged in those disciplines and in politics today with even more fervor, and this time, both the '80s and the...

A philosopher of nonviolence.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... Introduction, by Ornella Pompeo Faracovi We are at the moment experiencing renewed interest in the life and work of Aldo Capitini, the Italian philosopher of nonviolence, who was born in Perugia in 1899 and died there in 1968. Conferences,...

Acknowledgements.
December 22, 2000... The editors of Diogenes extend their warmest thanks to all who have helped, in various ways, to prepare this issue: Dominique Arnouil, Ioanna Kucuradi, Liamara Conti, Silvia Mancini, Antoine Faivre, Jean-Godefroy Bidima, Maria Villela-Petit,...