Sylvain Delcomminette
Biographic Data
| ID | 1369362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvain Delcomminette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvain |
| FAMILY NAME | Delcomminette |
| SIGNATURE | DELCOMMINETTE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8100-5572 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Idealism and Greek Philosophy
In his paper “Idealism and Greek Philosophy: What Berkeley Missed and Descartes Saw,” Myles Burnyeat purports to show not only that idealism was not endorsed by any ancient philosopher, but also that it could not have been endorsed before Descartes; Greek philosophy was dominated by an “unquestioned, unquestioning assumption of realism.” By ‘idealism,’ Burnyeat means mainly Berkeley’s immaterialism, but he also extends his demonstration to someth…
Réminiscence et connaissance a priori
Cet article se propose de confronter la réminiscence platonicienne à la connaissance a priori kantienne. Pour ce faire, après avoir rappelé la différence entre connaissance a priori et connaissance innée selon Kant, il se tourne vers l'interprétation néokantienne de la réminiscence platonicienne par Paul Natorp. Il montre ensuite, en examinant en particulier des passages du Phédon et du Théétète , que le point le plus critiquable de l'interprétat…
Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo
Plato’s Phaedo has never failed to attract the attention of philosophers and scholars. Yet the history of its reception in Antiquity has been little studied. The present volume therefore proposes to examine not only the Platonic exegetical tradition surrounding this dialogue, which culminates in the commentaries of Damascius and Olympiodorus, but also its place in the reflections of the rival Peripatetic, Stoic, and Sceptical schools. This volume…
Ancient Readings of Plato's Phaedo
"Plato's Phaedo has never failed to attract the attention of philosophers and scholars. Yet the history of its reception in Antiquity has been little studied. The present volume therefore proposes to examine not only the Platonic exegetical tradition surrounding this dialogue, which culminates in the commentaries of Damascius and Olympiodorus, but also its place in the reflections of the rival Peripatetic, Stoic, and Sceptical schools. This volum…
Odysseus and the Home of the Stranger From Elea
Not very long ago, Plato's Sophist was often presented as a dialogue devoted to the problem of being and not-being, entangled with limited success in an inquiry into the nature of the sophist. Thanks to the renewal of interest in the dramatic form of Plato's dialogues, recent works have shown that this entanglement is far from ill-conceived or anecdotal. However, the inquiry into the sophist is itself introduced by another question, concerning th…
L’Idée platonicienne dans la philosophie contemporaine
Au vu des nombreuses tentatives de « renversement » ou de « dépassement » du platonisme que l’on rencontre dans la philosophie contemporaine, il semble de prime abord que la pensée de Platon, souvent réduite à quelques schémas scolaires, y a essentiellement joué un rôle de repoussoir. Un examen plus approfondi révèle pourtant que nombre de philosophes majeurs de la période contemporaine se sont au contraire confrontés en profondeur à la philosoph…
Le Philèbe de Platon
This book deals with the nature and function of the good in Plato’s philosophy, by focusing on the dialogue explicitly devoted to it: the Philebus. It provides a comprehensive commentary of this difficult dialogue in which almost all the themes of Plato’s philosophy are discussed or alluded to. The author shows that a scrupulous analysis and reconstruction of its argumentative progress makes it possible to discover the unity between these differe…
La juste mesure
J’examine dans cet article le double aspect sous lequel la loi se trouve discutée par l’Étranger dans le Politique : si elle fait tout d’abord l’objet d’une critique sévère au nom d’une science idéale, elle est ensuite réhabilitée à titre de substitut à l’idéal défaillant. Cette réhabilitation est complexe : elle passe par un étrange récit de politique-fiction qui fait écho sans le dire à Thucydide et qui permet à l’Étranger de lier dans un même …
The Fourth Genus and the Other Three. A Note on Philebus 27a8–9
SCOPUS: ar.j
False Pleasures, Appearance and Imagination in the Philebus
This paper examines the discussion about false pleasures in the Philebus (36 c3-44 a11). After stressing the crucial importance of this discussion in the economy of the dialogue, it attempts to identify the problematic locus of the possibility of true or false pleasures. Socrates points to it by means of an analogy between pleasure and doxa. Against traditional interpretations, which reduce the distinction drawn in this passage to a distinction b…
La juste mesure
J’examine dans cet article le double aspect sous lequel la loi se trouve discutée par l’Étranger dans le Politique : si elle fait tout d’abord l’objet d’une critique sévère au nom d’une science idéale, elle est ensuite réhabilitée à titre de substitut à l’idéal défaillant. Cette réhabilitation est complexe : elle passe par un étrange récit de politique-fiction qui fait écho sans le dire à Thucydide et qui permet à l’Étranger de lier dans un même …
False Pleasures, Appearance and Imagination in the Philebus
This paper examines the discussion about false pleasures in the Philebus (36 c3-44 a11). After stressing the crucial importance of this discussion in the economy of the dialogue, it attempts to identify the problematic locus of the possibility of true or false pleasures. Socrates points to it by means of an analogy between pleasure and doxa. Against traditional interpretations, which reduce the distinction drawn in this passage to a distinction b…
False Pleasures, Appearance and Imagination in the Philebus
This paper examines the discussion about false pleasures in the Philebus (36 c3-44 a11). After stressing the crucial importance of this discussion in the economy of the dialogue, it attempts to identify the problematic locus of the possibility of true or false pleasures. Socrates points to it by means of an analogy between pleasure and doxa. Against traditional interpretations, which reduce the distinction drawn in this passage to a distinction b…
La juste mesure
J’examine dans cet article le double aspect sous lequel la loi se trouve discutée par l’Étranger dans le Politique : si elle fait tout d’abord l’objet d’une critique sévère au nom d’une science idéale, elle est ensuite réhabilitée à titre de substitut à l’idéal défaillant. Cette réhabilitation est complexe : elle passe par un étrange récit de politique-fiction qui fait écho sans le dire à Thucydide et qui permet à l’Étranger de lier dans un même …
The Fourth Genus and the Other Three. A Note on Philebus 27a8–9
SCOPUS: ar.j
Le Philèbe de Platon
This book deals with the nature and function of the good in Plato’s philosophy, by focusing on the dialogue explicitly devoted to it: the Philebus. It provides a comprehensive commentary of this difficult dialogue in which almost all the themes of Plato’s philosophy are discussed or alluded to. The author shows that a scrupulous analysis and reconstruction of its argumentative progress makes it possible to discover the unity between these differe…
L’Idée platonicienne dans la philosophie contemporaine
Au vu des nombreuses tentatives de « renversement » ou de « dépassement » du platonisme que l’on rencontre dans la philosophie contemporaine, il semble de prime abord que la pensée de Platon, souvent réduite à quelques schémas scolaires, y a essentiellement joué un rôle de repoussoir. Un examen plus approfondi révèle pourtant que nombre de philosophes majeurs de la période contemporaine se sont au contraire confrontés en profondeur à la philosoph…
Odysseus and the Home of the Stranger From Elea
Not very long ago, Plato's Sophist was often presented as a dialogue devoted to the problem of being and not-being, entangled with limited success in an inquiry into the nature of the sophist. Thanks to the renewal of interest in the dramatic form of Plato's dialogues, recent works have shown that this entanglement is far from ill-conceived or anecdotal. However, the inquiry into the sophist is itself introduced by another question, concerning th…
Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo
Plato’s Phaedo has never failed to attract the attention of philosophers and scholars. Yet the history of its reception in Antiquity has been little studied. The present volume therefore proposes to examine not only the Platonic exegetical tradition surrounding this dialogue, which culminates in the commentaries of Damascius and Olympiodorus, but also its place in the reflections of the rival Peripatetic, Stoic, and Sceptical schools. This volume…
Ancient Readings of Plato's Phaedo
"Plato's Phaedo has never failed to attract the attention of philosophers and scholars. Yet the history of its reception in Antiquity has been little studied. The present volume therefore proposes to examine not only the Platonic exegetical tradition surrounding this dialogue, which culminates in the commentaries of Damascius and Olympiodorus, but also its place in the reflections of the rival Peripatetic, Stoic, and Sceptical schools. This volum…
Réminiscence et connaissance a priori
Cet article se propose de confronter la réminiscence platonicienne à la connaissance a priori kantienne. Pour ce faire, après avoir rappelé la différence entre connaissance a priori et connaissance innée selon Kant, il se tourne vers l'interprétation néokantienne de la réminiscence platonicienne par Paul Natorp. Il montre ensuite, en examinant en particulier des passages du Phédon et du Théétète , que le point le plus critiquable de l'interprétat…
Idealism and Greek Philosophy
In his paper “Idealism and Greek Philosophy: What Berkeley Missed and Descartes Saw,” Myles Burnyeat purports to show not only that idealism was not endorsed by any ancient philosopher, but also that it could not have been endorsed before Descartes; Greek philosophy was dominated by an “unquestioned, unquestioning assumption of realism.” By ‘idealism,’ Burnyeat means mainly Berkeley’s immaterialism, but he also extends his demonstration to someth…
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works)