Etienne Helmer- University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Etienne Helmer
- University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
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El Económico de Jenofonte es un escrito controvertido. Algunos lectores lo consideran un texto carente de toda racionalidad en el ámbito económico, mientras que otros detectan en él una racionalidad precapitalista basada en la búsqueda de la maximización de la utilidad. Este artículo plantea la hipótesis de una tercera vía: el objeto del Económico...
L’art de l’administration domestique dans les traités grecs antiques est complexe car il engage des connaissances techniques tournées vers l’acquisition et la conservation des biens – savoirs agricoles et comptables, connaissances géo-climatiques et psychologiques – mais aussi une réflexion non technique sur les limites et les valeurs devant encadr...
Este artículo examina cómo, en el Económico, Jenofonte pone la reciprocidad en el centro de las relaciones económicas entre los seres humanos y la Tierra, y entre los seres humanos mismos en sus intercambios. Invita a reflexionar sobre un modelo económico que permita hacer del planeta no un mero recurso, sino el lugar de una forma de justicia globa...
Presentación del Dossier: Pensar el antropoceno desde la Antigüedad.
According to Plato, only the alliance of political power and philosophy could establish a just city and put an end to the evils of cities and men. However, the exercise of power by the philosophers seems to require them to break the very rules they enact: in the Republic and the Laws, they are allowed to lie to the citizens, who are themselves proh...
El término μáθημα que, en plural, da título al presente volumen significa «lo que se aprende o enseña»: una lección, conocimiento o estudio. Los trabajos recogidos en este volumen son intentos por comprender desde diversas perspectivas las enseñanzas de los filósofos griegos. En este volumen, editado por Raúl Gutierrez, se ha recopilado una selecci...
Bodies and Souls in Xenophon’s Economics. An Aspect of Economic Thought in Ancient Greece
Except for what concerns sexuality, the body is absent from the few studies devoted to the economic thought of ancient Greece as it is formulated in the treatises pertaining to the logos oikonomikos, which concerns the material and human administration of hous...
Suele pensarse que los filósofos griegos desprecian tanto el comercio al por mayor entre las ciudades, como el comercio al por menor dentro de las ciudades. De acuerdo con esta larga tradición interpretativa, Platón se conforma a la poesía homérica y hesiódica al respecto: el comercio tiene la reputación de ser un oficio asociado con la deshonestid...
Le souci d’affirmer l’autonomie de la philosophie à l’égard de tout ce qui pourrait diminuer son quotient d’universalité en portant la marque d’un territoire déterminé, explique que la plupart des philosophes se soient rarement penchés sur ce que leur pensée doit à une géographie particulière, physique et urbaine, et sur la façon dont leur réflexio...
What place can women have in Plato’s just city? In opposition to the two main antagonistic positions on this topic - some consider Plato a promoter of gender equality as he allows women to have political office, while others put the stress on the fact that Plato keeps them in a subordinate status - this article makes a new claim: these two position...
Selon une interprétation courante, les traités des philosophes grecs portant sur l’économie domestique (oikonomia) n’accorderaient à celle-ci aucune importance théorique, et la relégueraient dans le domaine de la nécessité et du besoin, loin de toute considération relative aux valeurs et au Bien. Contre cette interprétation, je propose de montrer q...
In Aeschylus’ Suppliants, the Argians grant the status of metics to the Danaids and their father Danaus, who came as refugees in the city of Argos to escape the sons of Egyptos. My claim is that this status is the legal expression of an underlying work of an anthropological, ethical, and political articulation of the categories of the Same and the...
On estime souvent que les Grecs avaient des phénomènes économiques une approche triviale et non scientifique. Ce point de vue est en partie motivé par ce que l’économiste et historien de la pensée économique J.A. Schumpeter et l’historien de la Grèce antique M.I. Finley considèrent être l’excessive préoccupation des penseurs grecs pour les « vaines...
The presence of slavery in Plato’s political and ethical thought is marked by two contrary tendencies: one signals the conventional character of statutory slavery and tends to reduce the moral boundary between free people and servile people; the other one, going in the opposite direction, strongly reaffirms the functional frontier between these two...
Résumé : Quel regard les philosophes grecs classiques portaient-ils sur l’économie domestique, en particulier sur la relation conjugale au sein de l’oikos, dont elle était une dimension fondamentale ? L’objet de cet article est de comparer les passages des philosophes de la période classique – Platon, Xénophon et Aristote, mais aussi le Pseudo-Aris...
Résumé: On estime souvent que le coeur de la réflexion politique de Platon dans la République porte sur les conditions de possibilité de la cité juste. Une telle lecture se concentre alors sur l’institution des philosophes-rois, et sur l’organisation tripartite ou trifonctionnelle de la cité, avec à la clé un débat sur le caractère utopique ou non...
Plato's political thought consists mainly in elucidating the requirements for making us truly political animals, capable of living in a unified and just city. However, such a goal remains unthinkable without a border between what is political - in the sense of what contributes to "the making of the city"- and what is not political, that is, without...
In Plato’s Republic and Laws, the market-place (agora) plays a part the importance of which has been misunderstood so far, mostly because it has been considered an equivalent of the « market » in the modern economic sense of the word. In both dialogues, Plato rather sees the economic aspect of the agora as a physical space of trade and exchange, an...
Les philosophes de l’Antiquité évoquent assez peu la monnaie. Pourtant, un examen attentif des rares passages où elle apparaît chez Aristote, Diogène le Cynique et Platon révèle qu’elle n’est pas à leurs yeux un instrument quelconque, seulement destiné à faciliter les échanges économiques. Tous s’interrogent en effet sur sa nature : ils s’accordent...
Against the common idea that the ancient Greek economic thought was limited to the study of the domestic economy, I argue it was also of apolitical nature. One oj its main objects consisted in questioning the similarities and différences between the oikos and the polis, and between economics and politics. First, I will give examples oj such a preoc...
Plato and Aristotle, or the Political Power of Money
Through close examination of texts by Plato and Aristotle, this article discusses the effects that money can have on the polis. For these philosophers, the function of money is not merely paying the price of things but also circulating justice and harmony throughout the polis. Plato makes money a...
The Greek Cynics rejected the economic system of their time, as they believed its institutions were based on values contrary to the happiness and self-sufficiency of the individual. They promoted instead extreme frugality and begging. But to what extent can these practices be considered a genuine economic system given the social cooperation that an...
Les philosophes grecs n’ont en général pas porté à la condition du mendiant autant d’intérêt qu’à celle du pauvre. Avant l’avènement du christianisme, la seule considération théorique morale dont le mendiant semble avoir fait l’objet de la part de philosophes anciens a porté sur les dangers du sentiment de pitié pour l’intégrité morale du donateur,...
Plato and Aristotle consider that the understanding of the nature of the polis and politics goes hand in hand with understanding the human nature. As a matter of fact, these ancient philosophers' ideas about the perfect state and its corrupted forms are based on an anthropology that close consideration reveals is economic in nature. According to bo...
Economy as Wisdom in the Epicurean Philosophers
Ancient Epicurean philosophers consider economy as the concrete form of ethics, in its individual and social aspects. The discipline of desires, based on the concept of limitation, favours completeness and self-sufficiency against accumulation, and gives rise to a social economy based on friendship an...
Plato"s perfect cities of the Republic and the Laws have often been criticized as utopias; that is, as unachievable cities. It is my argument that such a "utopian reading" is wrong. Plato"s best cities cannot be understood as utopias neither in the literary meaning of the word nor in the sense of theoretical projects of political recast. They must...
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)-- Université de Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, 2004. Includes bibliographical references and index.
