Pierre Destrée
Biographic Data
| ID | 3867716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre Destrée |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Destrée |
| SIGNATURE | DESTRÉE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 10 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aristote et la théorie de l’humour
Cet article offre une reconstruction de la théorie aristotélicienne de l’humour, tant descriptive que normative. Dans une première partie, surtout centrée sur le troisième livre de la Rhétorique, je montre que l’idée d’ « incongruité » est centrale dans la compréhension de ce qui rend un mot ou une expression « drôle » ou « humoristique ». Dans une seconde partie, je tente de reconstruire cette théorie d’un point de vue normatif (en m’appuyant su…
Family bounds, political community, and tragic pathos
One argument that seems to be crucial in Hall’s interpretation is based on what Aristotle famously says at the end of the Poetics: “correctness is the same thing in politics and poetry, nor in any other art and poetry”. Aristotle does also famously say that politics is the architektonike episteme, meaning the leading or organizing science as regards to man’s eudaimonia. An answer is that Aristotle initially and above all wanted to privilege these…
The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context
Poetics in Its Aristotelian Context
Plato on Pleasures from Comedy
Contrary to most scholars who (tend to) consider the passage in the Philebus on comedy and laughter as a sort of parenthesis, Chapter 10 contends that it does constitute an important step in the Philebus ’s argumentative framework. Actually, Plato’s analysis of laughter in comedy constitutes the peak of his rebuttal of mixed pleasures. For comedy seems to offer just sheer pleasure, or what one would call “pure” pleasure. Thus, showing that even c…
Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy
Plato and the Power of Images
Plato's Symposium
Plato's Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-hearted way, and a literary masterpiece, it has exerted an influence that goes well beyond the confines of philosophy. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars, offer detailed analyses of all parts of the work, focusing on the central and much-debated theme of erōs or 'human desire' …
Hippias, Handsome and Wise’
Plato's Hippias Major has usually been taken to be a comic dialogue, and rightly so. Its main theme is the καλόν, but what is primarily targeted and harshly mocked throughout the dialogue is Hippias’ pretence of having σοφία, which should allow him to define what the καλόν consists in. Yet, καλόν is an ambiguous term since, besides its aesthetic meaning, it also usually means the ‘morally right’. Not being able to define what καλόν is therefore a…
Pleasure
Pleasure is at the core of aesthetic experience in antiquity, but what sort of pleasure are we dealing with? I consider the responses offered by Gorgias, Plato, and Aristotle: if Plato condemns the strong emotional pleasures we get from tragedy, his own myths are meant to provide his readers with an emotional, and a cognitive, pleasure; according to Aristotle, tragedy as well as music are to provide spectators with the pleasure of the “activity” …
Aristotle's Politics
A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics
The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media-oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aur…
Comment Être Responsable De Son Destin
Aristotle on the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure
The paradox we usually call the paradox of negative emotions in art is quite plausibly at the very core of Aristotle’s approach to tragedy: since pity and fear, as Aristotle details them in his Rhetoric, are painful emotions when experienced in the real world, why is it so obviously and yet mysteriously the case that we nonetheless usually do enjoy attending tragic plays where pity and fear play a central role? Might it be the case that in fact o…
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics
One of the most influential works in the history of political theory, Aristotle's Politics is a treatise in practical philosophy, intended to inform legislators and to create the conditions for virtuous and self-sufficient lives for the citizens of a state. In this Companion, distinguished scholars offer new perspectives on the work and its themes. After an opening exploration of the relation between Aristotle's ethics and his politics, the centr…
Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics
Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics
Spectacles from Hades. On Plato’s Myths and Allegories in the Republic
The case of the Platonic muthoi is obviously different: they are addressed to an Athenian (or more generally Greek) audience of people living in a democratic city, who, like Socrates and Glaucon, have been educated under the guidance of Home. Yet even if Plato's myths, or prose poetry, are not to be confused with these lyric hymns, and eulogies, their benefit might not be completely different. This chapter briefly reviews the myth of Gyges, and t…
Plato and Myth
Plato and the Poets
The subject of this paper is poetic creativity as it features in various Platonic works: the nature and source of creativity, as well as the way in which it differs from the activity of philosophy. I shall argue that Plato gives us at least three quite different models of poetic creativity. One can be extracted from the Ion and the Meno, another from the Symposiim and a third from the Gorgias and Republic VI. The main focus of this paper will be …
Poetry, Thumos, And Pity In The Republic
This chapter explains that contrary to first appearance, the thumoeidetic part of one's soul does actually play an important, albeit implicit, role in the second critique of poetry in Book X, and that from the psychological perspective there is no real discrepancy between these two critiques. Before getting on to the role the thumoeidetic part of the soul may have in Book X, the chapter focuses briefly on some relevant features of the first criti…
Plato and the poets
Plato and the Poets
Ancient Perspectives on Aristotles De anima
Aristotle?s treatise On the Soul figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle?s authoritative analyses of, among others, sense perception, imagination, memory, and intellect. The ongoing debates on this difficult work continue the commentary tradition that dates back to antiquity. This volume offers a sele…
A Comédia Na Poética De Aristóteles
This paper tries to reconstruct what might have been Aristotle’s theory ofcomedy. Through the analysis of the actual text of the Poetics, along with some other textsof Aristotle, I draw conclusions regarding the nature of comedy and laughter in Aristotle’sthinking, and reflect upon subjects there implied, such as what would be the role played bykatharsis in comedy and the emotions proper to comedy
A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics
The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media-oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aur…
Aristote et la question du droit naturel
présente étude propose une interprétation de EN , V, 10, en défendant deux premièrement que la notion centrale de la variabilité du droit naturel e la diversité des interprétations que l'on peut donner d'un sentiment communément partagé du juste ou de l'injuste (cf. Rhét., I, 13); deuxièmement que, échapper au relativisme de type protagoréen, Aristote défend l'idée d'un parfait qui seul peut fournir la meilleure interprétation de ce sentiment
Une mise à l'épreuve d'Aristote à partir de Heidegger
Destrée Pierre. Une mise à l'épreuve d'Aristote à partir de Heidegger. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 87, n°76, 1989. pp. 629-639
Physique' et 'métaphysique' chez Aristote
Destrée Pierre. «Physique» et «métaphysique» chez Aristote. A propos de l'expression ὄν ἧ ὄν. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 90, n°88, 1992. pp. 422-444
Commentaire
Platon et Leibniz, lecteurs d'Anaxagore. Note sur le sens de la finalité naturelle en philosophie grecque
Etude du debat ancien et moderne sur le finalisme qui rapproche Platon et Leibniz en tant que lecteurs d'Anaxagore et interpretes du nous. Examinant le passage du «Phedon» (97b8-99c6) ou Anaxagore apparait comme le pere fondateur de la problematique teleologique de la nature, ainsi que la traduction-interpretation qu'en donne Leibniz dans son «Discours de Metaphysique» ( 20), l'A. realise une double constatation: d'une part, la reconnaissance d'u…
Aristote et la question du droit naturel
présente étude propose une interprétation de EN , V, 10, en défendant deux premièrement que la notion centrale de la variabilité du droit naturel e la diversité des interprétations que l'on peut donner d'un sentiment communément partagé du juste ou de l'injuste (cf. Rhét., I, 13); deuxièmement que, échapper au relativisme de type protagoréen, Aristote défend l'idée d'un parfait qui seul peut fournir la meilleure interprétation de ce sentiment
Éducation morale et catharsis tragique
Contrairement à la plupart des interprétations de type “ moral ”, je défends une interprétation morale du sens de la tragédie pour Aristote à partir d’une compréhension médicale de la catharsis. Cela, en défendant une autre interprétation des pathêmata dont il y a catharsis : c’est la purgation d’un vécu donné par les émotions de peur et de pitié, ce vécu étant fondamentalement la peur que le spectateur éprouve de se voir dans une situation analo…
Aristote
Tous hommes désirent être heureux et nul ne saurait être heureux sans être vertueux, tels sont les principes de départ de l'éthique aristotélicienne. Comment les articuler ? Qu'entend exactement Aristote par « bonheur » ? Ces vertus sont des modes de comportement, comme le courage, la justice, l'amitié... Quel est leur statut par rapport au bonheur ? Ces questions correspondent aux problématiques centrales de l'éthique d'Aristote ainsi qu'aux mul…
Akrasia in Greek Philosophy
Discussions on akrasia (lack of control, or weakness of will) in Greek philosophy have been particularily vivid and intense for the past two decades. Standard stories that presented Socrates as the philosopher who simply denied the phenomenon, and Plato and Aristotle as rehabilitating it straightforwardly against Socrates, have been challenged in many different ways. Building on those challenges, this collective provides new, and in some cases op…
Aristotle On The Causes Of Akrasia
The conception and explanation Aristotle gives concerning the phenomenon of akrasia appears to present a real paradox. This chapter attempts to defend an intellectualist interpretation of the famous passage, Book VII of the Nichomachean Ethics (NE) 3, 1147a24–b17. It tries to show in what way the texts, in which Aristotle seems to support the common opinion about akrasia , can be read in accordance with the readings in the first part. The chapter…
Ancient Perspectives on Aristotles De anima
Aristotle?s treatise On the Soul figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle?s authoritative analyses of, among others, sense perception, imagination, memory, and intellect. The ongoing debates on this difficult work continue the commentary tradition that dates back to antiquity. This volume offers a sele…
A Comédia Na Poética De Aristóteles
This paper tries to reconstruct what might have been Aristotle’s theory ofcomedy. Through the analysis of the actual text of the Poetics, along with some other textsof Aristotle, I draw conclusions regarding the nature of comedy and laughter in Aristotle’sthinking, and reflect upon subjects there implied, such as what would be the role played bykatharsis in comedy and the emotions proper to comedy
Plato and the Poets
The subject of this paper is poetic creativity as it features in various Platonic works: the nature and source of creativity, as well as the way in which it differs from the activity of philosophy. I shall argue that Plato gives us at least three quite different models of poetic creativity. One can be extracted from the Ion and the Meno, another from the Symposiim and a third from the Gorgias and Republic VI. The main focus of this paper will be …
Poetry, Thumos, And Pity In The Republic
This chapter explains that contrary to first appearance, the thumoeidetic part of one's soul does actually play an important, albeit implicit, role in the second critique of poetry in Book X, and that from the psychological perspective there is no real discrepancy between these two critiques. Before getting on to the role the thumoeidetic part of the soul may have in Book X, the chapter focuses briefly on some relevant features of the first criti…
Plato and the poets
Plato and the Poets
Spectacles from Hades. On Plato’s Myths and Allegories in the Republic
The case of the Platonic muthoi is obviously different: they are addressed to an Athenian (or more generally Greek) audience of people living in a democratic city, who, like Socrates and Glaucon, have been educated under the guidance of Home. Yet even if Plato's myths, or prose poetry, are not to be confused with these lyric hymns, and eulogies, their benefit might not be completely different. This chapter briefly reviews the myth of Gyges, and t…
Plato and Myth
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics
One of the most influential works in the history of political theory, Aristotle's Politics is a treatise in practical philosophy, intended to inform legislators and to create the conditions for virtuous and self-sufficient lives for the citizens of a state. In this Companion, distinguished scholars offer new perspectives on the work and its themes. After an opening exploration of the relation between Aristotle's ethics and his politics, the centr…
Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics
Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics
Comment Être Responsable De Son Destin
Aristotle on the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure
The paradox we usually call the paradox of negative emotions in art is quite plausibly at the very core of Aristotle’s approach to tragedy: since pity and fear, as Aristotle details them in his Rhetoric, are painful emotions when experienced in the real world, why is it so obviously and yet mysteriously the case that we nonetheless usually do enjoy attending tragic plays where pity and fear play a central role? Might it be the case that in fact o…
Pleasure
Pleasure is at the core of aesthetic experience in antiquity, but what sort of pleasure are we dealing with? I consider the responses offered by Gorgias, Plato, and Aristotle: if Plato condemns the strong emotional pleasures we get from tragedy, his own myths are meant to provide his readers with an emotional, and a cognitive, pleasure; according to Aristotle, tragedy as well as music are to provide spectators with the pleasure of the “activity” …
Aristotle's Politics
A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics
The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media-oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aur…
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